Your distro is Windows 10 Enterprise
I don't know why you think you'll have it better with Linux

>>107994187
Substance Painter literally has official Linux support you fucking retard

>>107994187
>Serious thread
>3d
>professional
>cannot accept further "tinkering"
MacOS

Windows 10? MacOSX? What do you want OP? Your childhood is gone. You're either going to have to deal with the jank in Windows, deal with the jank in Linux, or deal with the jank in MacOS.

If you switch to Linux, you can have blender, but you CANNOT have modern photoshop. There are alternatives like GIMP and Krita, but if you're one of those niggers that's going to throw a tantrum that you can't have photohop on Linux, you're just going to have to grow up. Photoshop is proprietary and owned by Adobe and complaining that they haven't made a version for Linux isn't going to do anything. An update may break something. You make break something. Switching to Linux means you can, and have to, fix it yourself. This is something you're going to have to get used to if you're an adult using a complex tool.

If you don't like "tinkering" and just want an OS that works, pick any distribution. They're all going to disappoint you to a degree, but they're all going to function. There's a million of these damn threads every day and in every one of them, there's a child throwing a tantrum that they can't have the good old days of windows back. Well here you go OP. If you are switching from windows and you want as little tinkering as possible you have on real option:

Linux Mint.

There are better distributions, but you don't want better. You want familiar. That's Linux Mint. Other distributions are going to take more tinkering to get it working how you like it. They're objectively better, but you're a massive fag who is only switching to Linux now that Microsoft's vibrate function went a little to high on the mandatory dildo that you agreed to shove in your ass.

>>107994187
hello, gigaautistic paranoid schizophrenic freetard here(serious reply)

one option that you can do is to leave windows as your "work" OS
and then have one or two different distributions for everything else
there are a few ways to go about it:
>doalbooting
>VM with GPU pass through with linux as host and windows as guest
>linux laptop, windows desktop
>linux on a thumb drive
etc.
i'd personally go for linux on a tablet, windows+linux on a PC and use it as a home server most of the time, but i think you will get skill issued if you attempt this

second option is just thuggin' it
if this is the substance painter in question :https://store.steampowered.com/app/1775390/Substance_3D_Painter_2022/
then you pretty much have all your software on loonix
>blender is literally native
>there are recent news about photoshop working with wine or whatever
>painter seems to have a linux option
so you are set

the only caveat i wouldn't expect a completely bugfree experience, both with your shit and other native apps
i know redditors like to yap how FOSS software is the greatest thing since sliced bread and always skip the part where FOSS ecosystem doesnt have billions of dollars for QA
so usually the rule is that every GUI program has at least one bug in it and you will generally experience more of them with open source software
although recently (as you yourself already know and probably experienced) this trend seems to get reversed

regardless you can always rely on old CLI tools and software that is fundamental for the infrastructure, usually these things are REALLY good(just need to learn how to use them)

>which distro
when it comes to that just write down a list of criteria and look it up yourself
prioritize bigger and older projects over smaller ones and random forks

>>107994187
What you are asking for is not a distribution, but a set of preinstalled apps, which are typically sparse due to not knowing what the user wants. I would suggest picking whatever debian-based (beginner friendly and less likely to break than arch) distro has the desktop environment you like the most and downloading apps from whatever GUI shop or application downloader it comes with

Windows-like: Zorin, Mint

Mac-like: Debian, Ubuntu

Either: PopOS

>>107994374
this
macOS is perfect for retards and pro

>>107994444
Oh, one more thing. Don't install the flatpak version when .deb is available. Otherwise you will need to download Flatseal and enable everything to get it working. Flatpak means it is sandboxed

just get two machines one for work one for private, have done this for years and honestly its been the best for my mental health too

>>107994187
Unironically just get a Mac. If you're a professional, having a separate computer from your personal one just for work purposes will benefit you far more than trying to mess with Linux for everything, especially in the long run. You don't sound like a poorfag either, so you should be able to get something that works for (You).
You can fuck around with whatever distro appeals to you the most in your own PC that way too.

>>107994394
>Other distributions are going to take more tinkering to get it working how you like it
I don't have a problem with that, I thought I made that pretty clear.
If it takes a week to set it up I'm fine with it. I'll take a week to do it.
I'm saying AFTER the setup it needs to work perfectly fine forever

>>107994187
hey OP i run Void which is one of the more autistc distros available and here's my advice: if your computer can run Windows 10, head over to the friendly windows thread and get Windows 10 LTSC. It is the closest thing to a painless solution to the Windows 11 thing

>>107994187
Blender and substance are supported in linux, photoshop has recently gotten some patch that lets it work apparently but I can't speak on that with much authority since I haven't tried it.