From macOS to Windows and WSL
&gt; I’ll keep this short: I still depend on Lightroom, writing tools (Notion, Evernote prior), a solid default desktop environment, first-party hardware support (be it a MacBook or Surface) &amp; battery life, and most of all, my time. I respect those who’ve invested the time into maintaining &amp; automating a full Linux environment they can use daily, but I just don’t have the time for that investment nor am I ready to make the trade-offs required for it. To each their own.<p>Given the circuitous series of hoops the author goes through to get their WSL&#x2F;Windows environment in something of a working configuration the above passage is kind of laughable.<p>I too depend on Lightroom, but I&#x27;ve had to break that hold and just this week have gone the other way to a full Linux desktop. Windows breaks <i>so often</i> it&#x27;s not workable for me. And LR classic has been nothing but a buggy, slow, bloated mess for me. Even just little things like opening the app paints the window over all other UI elements and you can&#x27;t click to bring another app to the front before clicking&#x2F;focusing into LR. Let alone the slow loading, painfully slow image viewing and stupid stuff like hiding the mouse pointer after creating a new folder.<p>I intend to split RAW development and Digital Asset Management, which is what I should always have done, now that Lightroom is out of the way. RAWtherapee and Darktable to a great job (and I say that as a former pro photographer) for RAW development and easily enough for most pro work I did&#x2F;do. The options for DAM are varied but even Digikam is pretty excellent for most things.<p>Having just spent a year with Windows (having run Linux previously) Linux is, amazingly, progressing towards &#x27;just working&#x27; for me. Especially with Flatpaks&#x2F;Snaps (though developers need to get a grip of understanding &#x27;filesystem=home&#x27; vs &#x27;filesystem=host&#x27; and how this effects usability vs sandboxing) as well as appimage. When they become available on Debian natively it&#x27;ll be kind of awesome to run a stable desktop with latest selection of certain apps you might need.<p>It&#x27;s true Nvidia support is bad. I did switch from Nvidia to AMD to make the move. Is that unreasonable to expect the user to do? Possibly. But doing that I get a hassle free 4k desktop, excellent stability (so far) and all the apps I need (so far).<p>Being back in a terminal &#x27;proper&#x27; again on the desktop is just fantastic. Not having things update on their own with my say is even more fantastic. And the fact it&#x27;s not eating 12GB of RAM running LR and a browser is the icing on the cake.