the apps look very "apple"-esque
Yet they work in a totally different manner (not in the better sense).
A new wave of Linux applications
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Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Learn a little about imagemagick [1], it will change your life! Edit: also, I bet doing an rclone mount of your Dropbox will be pretty seamless and stable, havent tested this personally though [2]. If you don't like the command line interfaces, then yeah you are probably better off with a Mac. 1. https://imagemagick.org/ 2. https://rclone.org/dropbox/
Most users don’t want to use the CLI.
it's their right
but it's not the car's fault if people don't want to use keys to start them up.
anyway, there's a huge amount of GUI software to handle PDFs in Linux, I will say that Linux gives you the most options, either as free software and close source ones.
Hell Acrobat is gold on WineHQ!
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like you're just arguing semantics. The pinephone is very clearly advertised as aimed at developers
Do you think even a developer will want to use something that falls apart in their hands like wet sawdust as a daily driver? As a developer, hell no. I'll give Linux phones a couple more years before I try that.
well, the point is to develop on it so that future becomes possible.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#264Until there is as “simple” to use an app like Preview on the Mac, most of these new generation apps are garbage. I’ve just switched to Ubuntu on a workstation I have lying around. And man, is it hard to use for just normal everyday use. Yes, it has the basics covered, but like many others my job has a lot of simple image manipulation related stuff. Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly shar…
Regarding the screenshots, maybe using the PrtSc key is more suitable for you? PrtSc alone saves the whole screen, Alt + PrtScr the active window. You'll find the screenshot as a png file in your "Pictures" folder.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#265I've been a long time linux desktop user, recently switched over to macOS after getting fed up from not being able to do many basic "productivity" related tasks, without having to open a terminal, search for a package on google, fiddle with some config, do a rain dance, etc... Skimming through just the blog post and some of the comments on this thread gives me a bit of a flashback thinking of all of the headaches I'v…
Amen. Engineers like to tinker. From installing custom ROM on their phones, to deciding which JavaScript router to use along with other 99 packages to run a blog. We’ve all been there. But sometimes the time comes, where you just want to be as productive as possible or focus on other things. And that’s when things like Ruby on Rails or iPhone start look interesting. They just work, and let you focus on creating value…
Does the IPhone just work though? My wife has one and I always find it a pain to deal with. Simple things like playing videos often don't work with VLC (never had this problem with Android) so I have to use Handbrake to convert it to a format that the Iphone will accept. Same thing with audiobooks, MP3 versions don't work I have to convert them to M4B for some reason.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not, but I would love to some day. I fucking hate my android phone (and the iphone is just as terrible, in slightly different and often the same ways). Thank god for the people tinkering on pinephones and purism phones, paving the way for something less awful, with control in the hands of the user We're not there yet, but we won't ever be unless people put effort into it. The linux desktop used to suck, too
Until I can plug my phone into a keyboard/mouse/monitor and have a powerful workstation I don't care that much about linux desktop apps being on my phone. My phone is backup/on-the-road browser, messaging applicance, and a phone 95% of the time.
I don't particularly care about that either, I just want something I have actual real control over, that's updateable indefinitely, and doesn't shove crap in my face or spy on me
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#267Until there is as “simple” to use an app like Preview on the Mac, most of these new generation apps are garbage. I’ve just switched to Ubuntu on a workstation I have lying around. And man, is it hard to use for just normal everyday use. Yes, it has the basics covered, but like many others my job has a lot of simple image manipulation related stuff. Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly shar…
I can't claim you are wrong... But I struggle with versions of those on my Mac on a regular basis, as well. Screen capture, in particular, is hilariously fickle for me. I finally got it so that it puts the image in my clipboard. Which is great, until I try to remember how to get it directly to a file. Because, I can't remember where that setting is anymore. And I have no idea how to make a pdf on this computer. Combi…
Screenshot is cmd-shift-4 for as long as I can remember. Video screenshot is cmd-shift-5 and has been for some time.
Re: make a .pdf, just about every print dialogue has had a "print to PDF" for as long as I've been using OS X and now MacOS.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#268I've been a long time linux desktop user, recently switched over to macOS after getting fed up from not being able to do many basic "productivity" related tasks, without having to open a terminal, search for a package on google, fiddle with some config, do a rain dance, etc... Skimming through just the blog post and some of the comments on this thread gives me a bit of a flashback thinking of all of the headaches I'v…
When I was a younger engineer I loved Ubuntu because I got to feel like a hacker that was making my custom working environment.
But these days I’m just irritated by how much it takes to do _primitive_ things.
I spent 30 mins today just getting my Outlook calendar to display in Ubuntu. I had to use Stack Overflow to learn of a package I had to install. No error messages. The calendar just remained blank until I installed it. Then I had to sync, have the app crash, sync again, and reboot.
I then turned on notifications so I’d get calendar reminders. Had to manually turn off 50 other app notifications. And even with some app notifications turned off I still got notifications (like for every single slack message).
It’s awful.
I think there will always be responses of, “X distro sucks. Use Y instead.” And I’m done taking them at face value. Every distro I’ve tried feels the same kind of bad UX, just usually a different set of badness.
Free is free. Nobody should feel bad about this reality. A lot of hard work has been put into these things. But that doesn’t mean we should pretend that it’s good.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#269I've been a long time linux desktop user, recently switched over to macOS after getting fed up from not being able to do many basic "productivity" related tasks, without having to open a terminal, search for a package on google, fiddle with some config, do a rain dance, etc... Skimming through just the blog post and some of the comments on this thread gives me a bit of a flashback thinking of all of the headaches I'v…
I've had the exact opposite experience. When I started using Linux the UI was a crutch, but as I learned, the command-line became much more compelling because it was substantially more powerful- it's infinitely easier to add features via flags and params than it is to integrate in a GUI. I pretty much live in the command-line now and I've never been more productive.
All of my calendar/doc/notes needs are in the cloud, so I'm dependent on a browser there. I don't have any display issues and general performance is better than Windows 10. I mean, just being able to run BTRFS is a game changer in reliability. All that said, I still love MacOS and use it for my work laptop, but Windows is just a hot mess at the moment and not something I want to subject myself to.
Re: A new wave of Linux applications
#270History is back around to repeating itself. I'm an avid Linux user (and even a developer who uses GTK pretty regularly), but the recent developments surrounding GNOME, Flatpak and their related libraries has not made me optimistic for the future of Linux applications. GTK4 is really bad. It launched with horrible text rendering issues (still unfixed, 10+ months later), broke compatibility with a number of basic featu…
Only if you are hung up on gnome of course. Plenty of alternatives that work out of the box in desktop space and flatapps aren't really needed really as one click with much less issues is possible many gui package managers. First option for anyone coming from other OS should be kde. Defaults are sane and customizations are easy to do. Frankly I really don't know why all distros provide gnome by default. There are nei…
> I really don't know why all distros provide gnome by default.
As far as I know, GNOME is still the only Linux desktop environment that includes a screen reader, and possibly some other categories of accessibility tools. That's important for distributors who are legally required to provide accessibility options, e.g. because they're selling to the US federal government.