[sovietmudkipz]

I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices…

For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform; for example, I generate reference stuff for Krita (digital painting software) illustrations on my drawing tablet. I remember the process to configure windows as being strange, GUI bound (NOT windows strong suit), and just annoying due to my aforementioned bias. Valve has done great work with running games on linux which is the only reason I keep that OS and I’d rather set up services on linux.

This comment serves as a reminder to myself that I should just go ahead grab my windows license keys for archival purposes and flash a better OS on that system.

[krior]

Don't forget that Krita has home-turf advantage on Linux :)

[moooo99]

Krita is among the main reasons why I am so impressed with the KDE project. Not only do they deliver a very good desktop environment, but they also deliver some genuine flagship apps for it

[bigyabai]

As does Wacom. My drawing tablet from 2002 is plug-and-play with zero driver installation.

[francoi8]

There's nothing silly about those reasons.

[sovietmudkipz]

I call it silly because essentially I’m complaining that I don’t like setting up a service on an OS I don’t normally set up services for. My quibbles with that process can in part be addressed by crafting a terminal based workflow to configure the host and enable the service on my desktop, skipping the GUI completely. E.g. I’m sure I can do Task Scheduler shenanigans through powershell. More experience would help sand down the rough parts I experienced.

Now the product decisions behind the OS giving me the icks… The terminal can’t (completely) help with that ^_^

[tempest_]

Eh those applications can both be run in linux without issue.

They are likely to have more issues related to getting the drawing tablet configured correctly.

The rest is just having to start from scratch and lose the decades of windows experience and intuition which can make things painful as that type of thing cant be replaced without time.

[littlestymaar]

Having just yesterday installed a fresh Mint distro on a newly received PC that came with Windows pre-installed, I can tell you that this is merely an hour of work, and most of the time will be spent downloading and burning the .iso on the USB key.

You should just give it a go tonight.

[gchamonlive]

Do you have reference for the krita+comfyui setup? I have a drawing tablet and always wanted to augment drawings using AI but never got around to deploying a stack for that. I have a 3090 that should be enough for it, I just need a reference for the setup.

[sovietmudkipz]

Plugin for Krita I use: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

App I recommend to download models and manage UIs: https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix

(1) Download Krita (2) Download and install the Krita AI diffusion plugin (3) Run comfy UI using StabilityMatrix

Docs for using the Krita AI plugin: https://docs.interstice.cloud/basics/ It's a really fun plugin to use!

[otherme123]

I recently started using Lutris for gaming in Linux, and so far so good.

[Zetaphor]

Running ComfyUI or _any_ AI stuff on Linux is a night and day difference in terms of ease of use and performance when compared against that of Windows users. Python on Windows is suffering

[user34283]

I fail to see how Python or ComfyUI would be easier to setup and use on Linux, unless we're talking about torch compile or Triton.

[dragonwriter]

The pain I’ve experienced running ComfyUI on windows is from (1) pytorch and the complexities of managing it through pip when python’s platform concept doesn't encompass CUDA versions, (2) dependency conflicts between custom nodes (some of which also involve #1 because they pin a specific pytorch version as a dependency), and (3) gratuitous breakage in ComfyUI updates.

None of which Linux makes any better.

[simooooo]

You just making stuff up? ComfyUI just works on windows.

[BuddyPickett]

Copilot is already great and it's only getting better. I can get so much more work done and the same amount of time or get the same amount of work done in a lot less time. It's funny how many people were afraid of AI. Technophobes abound in this world

[grub5000]

Funny, I disagree. I think copilot truly sucks compared to the other options. But you can uninstall copilot, so I don’t see why it bothers people at all.