For me personally when the day comes that I’m forced to upgrade I’m just gonna switch to Ubuntu. The next LTS is due in 4 months and with so many software vendors now offering there products on Ubuntu why not.
I mean for day to day use a combination of LibreOffice, Foxit Reader and WPS office has given me no grief in opening editing and saving any office document made on a Windows PC.
For my Media needs audacious with the right skin replaces my Winamp perfectly. VLC is VLC and Kodi is Kodi.
As a mobile and game dev I’m happy to say that both Unity3d and Android Studio work pretty much hassle free, I even found that on Ubuntu my mobile device communicated quicker and with less hassle on Ubuntu than on Windows with Android Studio.
Gaming is also pretty much covered now with Steam and GOG supporting Linux as a platform and combined them having around 2000 games there is also no issue there.
One area that is still very lacking though sadly is with regard to graphics with Corel Draw, Photo Shop and 3ds Max still being absent from Linux. There are however alternatives like Gimp, Ink Scape and Blender. Maya is however on Linux so that’s a plus.
But hey if I can hold out for another 2 years dual booting till 18.04 LTS who knows how far things might have advanced then.
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For me personally when the day comes that I’m forced to upgrade I’m just gonna switch to Ubuntu. The next LTS is due in 4 months and with so many software vendors now offering there products on Ubuntu why not.
I mean for day to day use a combination of LibreOffice, Foxit Reader and WPS office has given me no grief in opening editing and saving any office document made on a Windows PC.
For my Media needs audacious with the right skin replaces my Winamp perfectly. VLC is VLC and Kodi is Kodi.
As a mobile and game dev I’m happy to say that both Unity3d and Android Studio work pretty much hassle free, I even found that on Ubuntu my mobile device communicated quicker and with less hassle on Ubuntu than on Windows with Android Studio.
Gaming is also pretty much covered now with Steam and GOG supporting Linux as a platform and combined them having around 2000 games there is also no issue there.
One area that is still very lacking though sadly is with regard to graphics with Corel Draw, Photo Shop and 3ds Max still being absent from Linux. There are however alternatives like Gimp, Ink Scape and Blender. Maya is however on Linux so that’s a plus.
But hey if I can hold out for another 2 years dual booting till 18.04 LTS who knows how far things might have advanced then.