I'm an embedded systems developer and my proprietary toolchain is windows only. Additionally I use several Adobe product routinely (illustrator, photoshop, premier).

Sucks.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Not trying to convince you, you have your reasons. However, Photoshop 2024 runs just fine under wine: https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=336

I believe illustrator and premiere do as well. There's also always running Windows in a VM. There are ways to have the Windows applications show within the Linux DE. It just might be worth experimenting with a dual boot if it's something you want.

[–] maniii@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I can tell you for a fact, in 1999, we were running Windows3.11 and MSDOS 5.x on a brand-new Pentium II ? or something like that, because the DSP-board and daughter-card system didn't like Win2k. We were all on the network. Everyone ran Win2k Pro while loading the test codes via network / SMB/CIFs share to that machine.

Same could be done using Linux on all those systems except for the test rig.

NO YOU DO NOT have to use Windows on your desktop just for your toolchain. Put that shit on a separate test-rig and isolate it.

Best Practices and Good Standard procedures makes it possible to use Linux on the Desktop.

It is a matter of ability and talent to do things properly using the best tools at any given time.