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> but if it's a consumer product...then it isn't going anywhere as a business why?
Do you have an example of a successful open source consumer product business?
Aseprite: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite Onivim: https://v2.onivim.io/ Ardour: https://ardour.org/
Of course, I don't know how successful each of those projects are, but they seem to be successful enough to continue development.
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Another long-time Mac user, who is also increasingly frustrated with how dumbed down & bloated OSX is becoming [I'm sticking on Mavericks for the foreseeable future and only 'upgraded' from El Capitán because more and more of my apps were breaking after applying updates]. With all OSX Finder's faults and all the annoyances of the OS, I still think it's miles ahead of any Linux distro I've tried to get on with. Two wo…
If we're doing the 'showstoppers on the Linux migration', I must yet again ask why no other file manager on any other operating system can do as Finder has been able to do since the 90s and display the total recursive size of a directory in bytes! The combination of this feature (including sort-by this directory size when listing dir contents) and quicklook makes the Mac the only place I ever want to actually manage…
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Another long-time Mac user, who is also increasingly frustrated with how dumbed down & bloated OSX is becoming [I'm sticking on Mavericks for the foreseeable future and only 'upgraded' from El Capitán because more and more of my apps were breaking after applying updates]. With all OSX Finder's faults and all the annoyances of the OS, I still think it's miles ahead of any Linux distro I've tried to get on with. Two wo…
Here's my story about the features I lost between 10.8 -> 10.9 -> 10.11 -> 10.13. tl;dr Web Sharing, Notes sync, iCal sync, HFS+, apps sync. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245164 I gained NVME drivers for using larger SSDs, so tolerated the changes, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the leap to ARM M1 if Big Sur is holding me back so much.
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Here's my story about the features I lost between 10.8 -> 10.9 -> 10.11 -> 10.13. tl;dr Web Sharing, Notes sync, iCal sync, HFS+, apps sync. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245164 I gained NVME drivers for using larger SSDs, so tolerated the changes, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the leap to ARM M1 if Big Sur is holding me back so much.
ZFS?
APFS isn't writeable on Linux or Windows without additional drivers. Nor is HFS+. It's quite inconvenient. If ZFS was usable in that way, I'd consider it! But for now I still have to keep my boot volume as HFS+ so I can at least read files, and use FAT32 to shuttle data around.
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> Can't help but notice that the Sound indicator's dropdown doesn't line up with the icon above it. But the fact that a single UI glitch I think it was meant to be perhaps not necessarily noticed but at least deliberately positioned like that, and not a UI glitch. Look how it's situated directly between the microphone and speaker indicators on the top bar, and the screenshot appears in a section that says, "the indic…
You're totally right about the mic + speaker icons. I wonder why they did that, if clicking either of them apparently opens this shared menu. A speaker as a representation of "Sound" with both mic/speaker settings inside doesn't strike me as too abstract. Or if they really want separate symbols, maybe they could be visually joined somehow. And none of the other screenshots show the microphone icon, it's only in that…
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Another long-time Mac user, who is also increasingly frustrated with how dumbed down & bloated OSX is becoming [I'm sticking on Mavericks for the foreseeable future and only 'upgraded' from El Capitán because more and more of my apps were breaking after applying updates]. With all OSX Finder's faults and all the annoyances of the OS, I still think it's miles ahead of any Linux distro I've tried to get on with. Two wo…
> Mostly to do with the inconsistencies in the interface. Coming from something like OSX which, for all its faults, presents a completely consistent user interface, I used Mac OS X from 2009 to 2012. It was sold as consistent and keyboard friendly back then. However: Describing a desktop interface where selecting a single word using the keyboard needs a different keystroke in different apps, that is - rich. Maybe thi…
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open source and free (as in beer) software are orthoginal/unrelated concepts you can have for-pay open source apps, no problem
Sure, you can have a for-pay open source app, but if it's a consumer product (as opposed to, say, some B2B thing with special licensing), then it isn't going anywhere as a business. Many people will just download the code and compile it instead of paying you (or find someone else who packaged it up). That's why open source has been more successful with software-as-service.
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> Why, in 2021, does every single Linux desktop require me to open a file first to see what's inside it? KDE's file manager has a previewpane that you can enable if you wish.
Why should I have to enable it? There shouldn't be any goddamn high places!!!
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>About the only quality graphic design app I've seen available for Linux is Krita. But it's more of a digital painting app than an image manipulation one. And, of course, no vector graphics. Well there's the web based Figma, somebody even created an unofficial desktop app for Linux. Figma has plugins, tons of them for many graphic design tasks. It blows the Affinity stuff out of the water imo.
The big caveat with Figma is that you don’t full own your data with it. It technically lets you export, but the file format is undocumented and subject to change at any time. Additionally, it’s very much geared specifically toward UI design and prototyping, whereas something like Affinity Designer or Sketch also work well for generic screen-targeted vector work.
True for project files, but you can export images and SVGs.
> it’s very much geared specifically toward UI design and prototyping, whereas something like Affinity Designer or Sketch also work well for generic screen-targeted vector work.
That's where the plugin ecosystem comes in. It's quite usable for simple/modern vector work that's more component oriented graphic design than hands on illustration.