get Cricut design space studio to work over USB in a bottle, without having to run a whole damn windows virtual machine

I’m not the only person using the machine, and the only other user wants to use a circuit, which requires design space studio

I tried some things on reddit but people trying to figure this specific thing out is a recent development but it just happens to apply to me

There are 2 barriers for me:

1. Ease of access - I haven’t found a distro that I can just download and install. They all require some sort of third-party software that runs the installation. Which means I usually end up struggling to find a tutorial that actually works with the distro I chose.

2. Driver issues - The only thing I want to do is run a browser. I stream movies. Seems simple, but I’ve yet to find a distro that will smoothly stream. I’ve tried various browsers.

In fairness, I’m using a single laptop for this purpose, so maybe it’s a hardware issue? Dunno, don’t care, just want things to work.

If I could find something like AltSnap on Linux I would move like, this week.
I know some of the features may already be part of Linux but I use this program pretty extensively and I don’t know much about Linux desktops and how they control.

But anyway I’m gonna move to Linux anyway, I have a date in my calendar later this year and my friend is gonna help me switch to it.

For me it’s because I have an iPhone and Windows has at least some compatibility with it, mainly for syncing my local music collection to my phone so I can listen with Apple Music offline. While it can be a pain, at least it works. If I were to use Linux I would need a way to transfer files between Linux and iPhone so I can listen to my music on a third party iPhone music player app, which I also haven’t found a good solution for yet. If anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears!

Lazyness.
I’d try it on a new system but I really don’t want to live migrate my whole system.

My copy of win10 to stop working, probably. Not planning on switching to win11, so Linux it will be.

many games and apps dont work well even with lutris & wine :(

A mass migration of business class software to Linux and a majority of businesses switching.

Basically the only time I have to use Windows is for work, and good luck getting the Kafkaesque nightmare of corporate bureaucracy to ever make a change for any reason, let alone something as complex as this

I switched my laptop to Arch a bit over a year ago but my desktop is still on Windows 11.

The main thing that’s holding me back is the lack of raw photo editing software that matches my workflow. I’ve tried RawTherapee, Darktable, RapidRAW and a couple of others. So far, everything was either cumbersome to use, was missing important features or had suboptimal performance. With dozens if not hundreds of candidates, even one more minute of editing time per photo can quickly add up. Many of my gigs are event photography and my clients often want at least the roughly edited previews within 24-48 hours.

If any of you knows a tool that accurately replicates the UX, feature set and performance of (ideally) Adobe Camera Raw or (not so ideally) Lightroom, you’d make me the happiest photography nerd on the planet. Bonus points if it correctly imports existing development settings in case I need to re-edit or re-export older photos.

PSA: if you recommend I use GIMP, like so many before you did, I will block you. GIMP is not a raw editor and it can’t even open most raw formats without help from one of the tools I mentioned above.

I get that there are different Distros and that having options is great, but it’s a double edged sword. It also means that things get more complicated and some get more support than others.

If I commit to Linux then my whole house will switch to that Distro because I don’t have time to figure and support >4 PCs with similar but different OSs.

Autocad - for work

Photoshop - for work

Getting more software companies to support.

Make the terminal easier to use. I don’t use it often but when I do I waste an average of 15min just trying to find a guide or wiki. A help file or built in guide would be nice

Everyone that uses Linux, expects you to be a Linux expert

Steam is great but a native GOG app would be nice. Instead of Herolauncher

Anti cheat support from games

Hardware support. Just finding drivers for peripherals is sometimes more trouble than it’s worth

Generally make it more inviting to new users

More support for WINE and Proton

I’m kinda in the same boat as you I think. Currently still using win10 and waiting it out, till either windows becomes decent or I switch to linux. Currently considering linux because I don’t game as much anymore, but kinda too lazy to switch till something breaks.

It needs to actually work.

No display issues with Nvidia. Working HDR out of the box. The OS and games most pick up the correct resolution both on desktop and running in proton. I need to be able to turn my monitor off and on without having to remove and insert the HDMI.

Same with audio. I need it to correctly detect my HDMI pass through and not need a script to run on boot to pull and grep a changing device id on every fucking update.

Finally I need Bluetooth to not be a total piece of shit and correctly support a controller without latency.

Now, where is the nerd to come screech at me, tell me my issues were fixed a decade ago and that Linux just works perfectly on random hardware and that Linux is so easy an idiot could do it? All the while I spend 40 hours a week on the cli and ide.

Even steam deck has a bunch of issues that needs will hand wave away.

Better accessibility. It’s actually gotten worse in the 15 years I’ve known about it.

Microslop’s Windows 11 Failed projects in a trenchcoat.

All my personal PCs and vms are Linux but for work I occasionally need to use a laptop that is on a mangled win 10 ltsc release that’s been gutted of most any dial home shit and returns update choices to the user.

The minute my tools all work on Linux properly that’s getting converted too.

Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…