iPhone 17

[Bobby5280]

I do graphics work full time, but I'm stuck with Windows PCs due in part to some of the industry-specific software we use. In the signage and large format printing categories there is far more support on the Windows side than OSX.

There are things about Windows 11 that I dislike more than Windows 10 (or Win7 prior to that). Microsoft just loves to bury all sorts of things under extra layers of user interface trash rather than keep things simple. The Start menu is now more of a screen-hogging mess than ever. A recent update changed the list of applications into different grid tiles. It's like they're trying to bring back the crap from Windows 8. I just want a simple list of my applications with fly-out menus when necessary.

The mainstream graphics applications I use seem to work fine in Win 11 Pro. That's mostly Adobe Creative Cloud apps along with CorelDRAW. I have a copy of Affinity Designer 2, but I don't use it very often. I mainly have the app in case I receive any customer provided art files in .afdesign format. I haven't got around to downloading the new "free" version of Affinity Designer since Canva bought the company.

[Scott5114]

I do graphics work full time, but I'm stuck with Windows PCs due in part to some of the industry-specific software we use. In the signage and large format printing categories there is far more support on the Windows side than OSX.

I'm probably one of the few people in the universe that does full-time graphics work on Linux. It works well for us because we often need to convert graphics from one format to another in standardized ways (e.g. to convert a sign image in a vector format to a raster product preview image simulating the appearance of a finished sign with a drop shadow and a background). It makes sense to run a custom script to do that, rather than spend time clicking the same buttons in the same order over and over again. Linux is very good at making that easy to do (I think some of the same tricks we use are possible on OS X, but on Linux writing your own custom scripts is something the OS kind of just expects you to want to do, so it caters to that use case in a way which I don't think OS X does).

[Molandfreak]

Apple stopped its obsession with the number 10 and the Roman numeral X. Now all of its operating systems use the year of release like a model year.

Side question that nobody seems to know the answer to: since the iPad forked over to its own operating system, why not revert iOS to the old iPhone OS moniker? The iPod touch is no longer being produced...

[Scott5114]

Apple stopped its obsession with the number 10 and the Roman numeral X. Now all of its operating systems use the year of release like a model year.

Ubuntu has done that forever (its very first release was 4.10, which came out in 10/2004).

[Bobby5280]

I'm probably one of the few people in the universe that does full-time graphics work on Linux. It works well for us because we often need to convert graphics from one format to another in standardized ways (e.g. to convert a sign image in a vector format to a raster product preview image simulating the appearance of a finished sign with a drop shadow and a background). It makes sense to run a custom script to do that, rather than spend time clicking the same buttons in the same order over and over again. Linux is very good at making that easy to do (I think some of the same tricks we use are possible on OS X, but on Linux writing your own custom scripts is something the OS kind of just expects you to want to do, so it caters to that use case in a way which I don't think OS X does).

A shop's work flow will often dictate the computing platform used.

A person who creates graphics work on a solo basis, never has to touch art files made by other people and doesn't have to send files to other companies to get certain things produced can pretty much use whatever software and computing platform he prefers.

Many graphics people get locked into using Adobe's software due to various factors present in multiple industry niches of the graphics industry. I handle a lot of brand assets from major companies; that stuff is almost always Adobe-centric. Some of those art files will "break" when taken outside an Adobe Illustrator or InDesign environment due to certain features/effects people bake into the artwork. The expensive RIP applications we use for large format printing all work better when fed PDF files from Adobe applications like Illustrator. I still have to keep CorelDRAW around since many other sign shops use it and we have many thousands of archive CDR files. Hardly any other applications can import CDR files and the few that do (such as Inkscape) usually do a terrible job at it.

Apps like Illustrator and CorelDRAW can run scripts or macros. I don't know if Affinity Designer can do so.

[Plutonic Panda]

Apple stopped its obsession with the number 10 and the Roman numeral X. Now all of its operating systems use the year of release like a model year.

Side question that nobody seems to know the answer to: since the iPad forked over to its own operating system, why not revert iOS to the old iPhone OS moniker? The iPod touch is no longer being produced...

Idk why but personally the X was my favorite iPhone.