Also what a lot of people don’t see ist, that as a company if you are looking for employees, there are a lot of potential workers with adobe experience, much less with affinity (although growing). Not sure how kany you find with professional FOSS tool experience.

So you do have major onboarding costs for each new employee who has to relearn their workflows

I tend to disagree, I do have several devices running Linux and with all of them I had issues after install (standby not working, swap partition not recognized, sound only playing on half of the speakers, issues with monitor scaling etc…) Im fine with it and like the journey, but there are still quirks.

Probably Im in an in-between-world where I do have some tricky use-cases, but missing the full know-how to do it…

thing which makes it not normy-usable, are the documentations: for windows issues you can find DAU-conform guides to solve something. Mostly on “official” (with probably too many ads) pages.

For Linux it’s usually a rabbit hole of official documentations (which dont show all the options), forums, reddit pages, where some guy tells another guy to add xyz to the config file…without telling which file and where in the file. Why is this command not listed in the documentation? What does that command actually do?

It has gotten much better, but there’s still some way to go

You all get it totally wrong, it’s not part of enshittification, they add the landingpage so you can securely check where tue link is going…

And if there’s a landing page, why not use it to show you great deals…would be sad to not use that real estate

That’s \s by the way

Unfortunately, the availability of “one time purchase” is not a guarantee anymore as more and more devs have killed existing versions sold with perpetual licences.

Probably a bit more polished UX (especially for not too tech-savy people)

but I’d say the biggest difference is integrated multidevice support, either via their cloud or selfhosted…

In some Linux distributions it blocks you from installing system packages via pip, often there are then packages which can be installed via your distros package manager.

With arch for example:

sudo pacman -S python-'package'

Or, as others mentioned using venv.

Also, some tools have plugins to provide vim controls for them.

I know at least and use these:

• SublimeText (https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous)
• Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff)

There are probably more…

For me, it’s hardware support, i.e my laptops fingerprint sensor just isn’t supported, for the speakers to work I had to find a script that remapped the speakers, multiple desktops (especially with different resolutions) are a pain.

But the killer at the moment is a good solution to manage and post process my raw photos. Went from Lightroom to On1 Photo RAW…unfortunately DarkTable is still not there yet. Also still missing the affinity suite on Linux :-(

Also, sadly these tools also don’t run well in a VM

Jup, Im having an NTP issue on my win10 machine If you search for it you find the same 5 “solutions” from dozens of content farms.

print("Hello World")

Save the file as script.py

And then execute it with

python3 script.py

Running tasker on a unrooted Fairphone 5 There is a function “System Lock” which locks the phone so you have to enter the PIN. I created a task and a widget on the home screen that triggers the task

I did give tasker some extra rights via adb, which is a quite straight forward process. I think the dev even has a guide for it…

I also like that with the rest-server you can configure it with append-only, so even if someone wants to encrypt or delete the data they are not able to modify the existing backup

It is at the scale they are working on, there’s a reason you can’t get an actual person to contact you… It’s too expensive to have actual people working these cases

As far as I know you can install Mint with KDE

For filesystems I have another gripe: if I move a file to another directory and I want to swap to the directory I just copied the stuff to I have to enter the whole path again…

Bloodborne

Didn’t even got to the first boss my first “try” (actually a lot of tries) and shelved it as “I’m not gud enough”

After a colleague nagged me about it again I gave it another try (with a guide this time) and it clicked! 10/10 game of the decade

Yes it does, and when I click on it, the Clock app opens… With all the bells and whistles

Is it though? They stuff more and more things into the clock app… Somehow nobody wants to maintain ‘just an app that shows the time’ it needs timers, stop watches, world time, weather and whatever is somehow related to time

I would, but they don’t ship to my country :sadface:

Yeah and there is a big issue. I would place myself as quite tech savvy, but last time i looked for a distrobI got overwhelmed… Good thing: there are questionnaires that lead you to a good enough suggestion… Back then it proposed mint

But then the next question: which desktopp environment?

I installed on my huawei matebook and it worked okay-ish, but it had one dealbreaker: even with a lot of tinkering there was no way I got standby or hibernation to work. Which is a must for me…

So I removed mint and installed kubuntu… Now standby and even hibernate work (kind of) But it totally craps up when I try to use my external monitor together with the internal screen… Even a lot of terminal tinkering later I don’t have it working… Oh and the speakers still crap now

There is a lit of information around how to maybe get stuff working, but a lot of it requires a lot of upfront knowledge:

• a lot of questions are answered with “yeah, enter that in your terminal” without any explanation what exactly it does (which is bad in two ways in my opinion)
• a lot of official documentation doesn’t explain very well what the configs do and what syntax etc. is expected
• there is often a lot of elitism around that really pushes away newcomers

EmI do love tinkering, but sometimes it’s really frustrating even for me. No way I could my GF to try that out…