It will be just a quickie. Looks like there are no official builds made for Centos to use Spotify and Discord. Either you have to download *.deb packages(Ubuntu and Mint users quite happy there) to "alienate" them.. or use the source provided. I tried to use Discord from the source but was tired to dig into dependency issues. It's always that libffmpeg.so or another lib.soffmpeg. (I have a bad love/hate relationship with FFmpeg in general on Linux)

Luckily, there is an amazing script who saves a day!
https://github.com/RPM-Outpost/discord

I recommend installing Canary, as it works for sure. And Spotify you can get from negativo repository here:

Spotify client

But looks like there won't be updates in the future. Or at least for a while.

Just pick one and you are good to go! Well. It's not quite true.

One thing you have to have in mind is to check which distro recommends your developer. Usually, it will be some RHEL, and Debian derivatives: Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS, Fedora etc. They are stable enough to use daily, and LTS (Long Term Support) versions are the best choice. Well... it's not quite right. Usually, they are very stable, but lack of new hardware/software implementation and I having a trouble with it.

I've tried a few. Will mention just few I was able to install. Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Manjaro.

I was in love with Manjaro actually, but... it's not supported by software I wanted to use and had massive problems installing it. Although, Blackmagic Fusion was working with FFmpeg support without any issues! I would consider this if I was a film editor I think, especially if I was an editor who hates M$ Windows.

Fedora. when RHEL released 27, I was so happy, everything was working so smoothly! Just had minor problems with Nvidia drivers, basically, reinstall each time after a kernel update. I think its a minor thing compared to other problems. But..don't fix if it's not broken rule applies here very much.

I was fancy to update. Fedora 28 broke everything.

Blackmagic Fusion wasn't working anymore, and after reading in forums, I decided to switch to CentOS, as it's supported officially.  No luck here.

Ubuntu. no luck here too. Just to mention, I had problems with SideFX Houdini here too. In general, I think, RHEL branch OS, is a little bit better for that.

Long story short - going back to CentOS. And will try to stick as much as I can on this one this time. Let's begin! 

It’s about Linux. Not only about linux but also motion graphics and 3d.

 

Why?

We all know that 3D and Macs are not going along together very well as they lack quite a bit of performance. Earlier this year, I had to make a sad decision, and replace my mac with pc workstation. Am I happy? Sort of. It’s really powerful!
So what’s the point of this blog? Well.. I was am tired of windows random restarts in the middle of my work, tired of random error dialogs, and tired of how ink and pen feature  doesn’t go along with wacom tablet. For every update I have to tweak something to get work done.
Pressure sensitivity in photoshop, Illustrator, switch off windows pen flicks now and then because it causes only problems.
That led me to look and search for an alternatives. Linux OS. 
 

What’s the plan?

The idea is to write a blog for myself, and to have links, tutorials and useful info - all in one place. Write all problems I have, and maybe a possible solution if I’ll find one. You might say “There are lots of forums for that” and you are right. But as I mentioned it’s mainly for my personal use.
P.S. You can download Linux 4K wallpaper HERE