I find Heroic to be the best method for installing games from non-steam storefronts rather than working with Bottles (or Lutris, for that matter).
Integrates pretty seamlessly with GOG and EGS to anccess your existing library and is currently in a very polished state, not had issues with anything I’ve thrown at it.
It will also add shortcuts to steam for anything you install through it if you absolutely must have everything launching through steam instead 
I’ve never heard of Heroic but I will have a look at this. I have Lutris but never used it. The whole bottles thing came about for me early on when testing games for the first time on Linux and I knew where everything was installing and easy to remove, I also have all my games on their own SSD separate from everything else.
I ended up leaving them alone since the games worked but I will give Heroic a try among the other options I was going to look in to.
For novel writing, publishing in general i would add Scribus to the list as a top-class replacement for Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress, which is what you would use in such a case (the two are the industry standard).
I had to edit a whole book at some point and Scribus was priceless in this task. Heck, i would have struggled with InDesign, because I needed to add a lot of partitures (musical notes) to the overall content flow, and this was done seamless with the help of plugin support in Scribus, no idea how I would have solved that issue with InDesign.
Hi Nate
I think this may have been replied to me accidently. I unfortunately don’t have any experience with those programs or novel writing and publishing. 
@anon93652015 I believe this may be for your post as a suggestion.
Thank you for reminding me of this because I completely forgot about it. I was going through the Adobe Suite and got to Dreamweaver, then thought, “Who the heck still uses Dreamweaver?”, so I stopped thinking about Adobe after that. 
Will resume the Adobe Suite in the next update. Forgot to even add Substance Painter, which you know the alternative will be Blender. 
I may mention an add-on or two, but overall it’s Blender, Blender, Blender. 
@anon93652015, you’re a man on a mission!
Yep. I’m trying to convince about 10 creatives who have a great influence on other creatives in my region. If I can convince them, they can take over from there, and I can relax. 
As for the generalists, that’s harder because getting regular people to sacrifice instant gratification for long-term benefits is generally not easy. I suffer from this struggle myself, so I know how hard it is.
This is true. Sad that we live in a world where if you don’t get that instant gratification, you just move on. That’s where the whole TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read) movement came from. I don’t believe in TLDR. You miss the nuance of the point being made if you just get a quick soundbite or paragraph synopsis of a 2 or 3 page article.
Made some more updates.
Note: There were three updates in the last 20 minutes, so the most recent edit history won’t show everything that has been changed today. If you’d like to see that, click the
back/previous button on the lower-left of the “Edit History” page to see what’s changed.
You’d need to click it 4 times because the forum software is counting some edits as two edits instead of one.
Overall, I’ve actually only edited the original post about 16-18 times. Maybe it just can’t properly handle so many words.
Lastly, I have rearranged it on my device so that the ActivityPub section will be under the social media section. This change will be reflected in a future update. Will also need to consolidate that section a bit, as it does have a fair amount of duplicate information. Finally, something I can easily reduce!
This entire endeavor, no pun intended, reminds me of the C.S. Lewis quote:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Not sure I understand why a Linux user would post this in a thread about freedom and open source, and breaking away from the oppressive practices of multibillion-dollar companies and the standards which support their everlasting enslavement of an industry.
This quote speaks to the possibility of me or the people I’d like to charge with the responsibility of carrying out this effort becoming corrupt.
It disregards the idea that it may turn out for the good.
Both possibilities are, well, possible.
And so are neither for that matter.
It’s similar to when someone says, “be realistic”, when they honestly mean to say, “That is so unlikely that it may as well be a zero percent chance”. Just completely disregarding a positive outcome being possible.
“Possibility has two sides and a rim of endlessly compromising outcomes.”
~ ddnn; EndeavourOS Forum; 2024
I just made up that quote above. Quote that the next time you feel like a negative outcome is likely.
You’ve honestly hit the nail on the head though when it comes to convincing ~10 pro creatives in your area and then maybe it will propagate. For instance, sure there Photoshop or Lightroom alternatives or what have you, but it’s not only about just using something else. The second layer of the problem is that in certain industries, the file formats are expected as well: I am a chemist and the golden industry standard is called ChemDraw and the files it generates have the .cdx extension. To my knowledge, there are no good FOSS alternatives to ChemDraw, not only because the few that are out there have limited functionality, but also because no one will ever bother trying to open them. Every time we have a meeting with a collaborator it’s like “oh yeah, I’ll send you the ChemDraw of what we talked about today”. Not the “file” or the “scheme” or anything…
Sorry if it feels like a rant and I’m definitely not trying to derail your thread, just putting out there one more thing for consideration. Please keep it up and let us know if it’s cool sharing your thread with other people too!
Oh, yes! Another reminder of something I’ve actually talked about with them. File types. Open file types.
I’ve mentioned to them how the fact there are proprietary file types is another hurdle, and that having apps based on an open architecture would mostly eliminate this hurdle.
But only mostly, because some apps will have extra features, and even though the file type the app uses may be open, it doesn’t mean that those features will fully translate to other open apps.
An example here is .ORA and .KRA. The latter is based on the former, but has features specific to Krita, and as such it won’t necessarily open correctly in apps that support .ORA.
Anyway, thanks for the reminder! 
Yeah, will certainly keep it up as nothing anyone says will stop me from wanting the abolishment of proprietary oppressors, and the betterment of the world. This is how I see it, so the feeling won’t go away until it is either achieved or I’m no longer here.
And yes, you may certainly share it with others.
Just preface it with, “This is a work in progress”.
Will do! This is much more thought out than any of my half-baked attempts so far
Are you able to expand on the sort of creatives these folk are?
If they don’t already use Blender, or aren’t exclusively video editors/colourists, then personally I wouldn’t be troubling them.
With developers, students, gamers and generalists, a really strong case can be made, with Linux able to offer excellent options. Many creatives however, will only have to swallow compromise after compromise, with only limited exceptions.
Perhaps the rest of the CS Lewis quote would provide some clarity, as it has nothing to do with ‘corruption’ 
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The overarching point in the context of your project being, to my mind, that you make no concession that within your lists of people who can/should make the switch there may also be people who simply do not want to switch to Linux, regardless of how honest and earnest (and on many points, valid and inarguably correct) your encouragement may be.
To borrow your own phrasing, I’m not sure why a Linux user who truly cares about personal freedoms would be so insistent that everyone else also use Linux if they’re already happy with what they have, and it works for them so they don’t see the need to.
It’s absolutely a good thing to make people aware of their options and let them make their own informed choices, but there’s a fine line between evangelising and the outright insistence that something must be done which it feels tonally that your position is skewed towards.
Just as it’s within your rights to say “you can/should/need to use Linux”, it’s equally within their rights to say “No”, regardless of how many valid arguments you put forth, and that ought to be recognised.
Have a look at this:
For the most part, they are animators and illustrators, working on both digital and traditional projects, including music videos, commercials, books, comics, indie games, etc.
This is why I mention Blender every chance I get, as mastering Blender or a feature of Blender would aid them as opposed to being a burden.
Lineage OS was just the first thing that came to mind. Will certainly replace it with Graphene. But also, a tightly locked-down Android tablet or iPad for art shouldn’t be too bad.
Ah, I see.
Yes. I do need to find ways to not sound like I’m trying to force this unto anyone, especially since the companies doing wrongs are already doing a good job at it.
I’ll add some info with links of what the companies have been doing so that this article matches more closely with the infographics I’ve sent them thus far.
I guess I should also put a note about this at the top as a reminder that this is only part of what I’ve been sharing with them. They’ve been sent graphics, links, and videos privately and on Discord over the last few months, but gently.
Kind of like a:
“This week in ‘Privacy For Artists and Why You Should Use Blender’ news”.
No actual title, just a weekly roundup of pertinent news and developments in the art, tech and open source worlds that includes apps they may like.
Pixelorama was a hit last week, and Blender is always doing its rounds.
Starting to read, a first reaction: it seems that you know very well the nuances of Windows users, but should investigate the nuances of Mac users for the sake of completeness 