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Besides office software and better ~~NVIDIA driver~~ hardware support in general, what else do you think is necessary?
Office software is covered by LibreOffice.
Just general software and hardware support. And ease of use. So basically everything.
Ease of use (and general software too) seems to slowly getting better, but the real bottleneck, i think is hardware support.
No matter how much software there is, or how easy it is to use Linux, there's no point if your GPU is extremely buggy and broken on Linux. which seems to be a huge problem for many NVIDIA users, including me :/
Yeah I mean especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don't bother making it available for Linux.
That's entirely use case specific. CUDA is actually used more on Linux than on Windows (I don't have data, but even Azure by Microsoft runs on Linux...) so for e.g. NVIDIA hardware for professionals the support is better there.
It's not. But I wasn't referring to GPUs anyway, I was referring to peripherals. Audio equipment, drawing pads, cameras, etc.