A new wave of Linux applications
Until there is as “simple” to use an app like Preview on the Mac, most of these new generation apps are garbage.<p>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.<p>Yes, it has the basics covered, but like many others my job has a lot of simple image manipulation related stuff.<p>Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly share with someone else over chat. Normal productivity stuff.<p>Take a simple thing like screen capture - you have to remember to save the screen that you captured otherwise it just sits there doing nothing in the screen capture app.<p>The thing that saves most Linux desktops for office productivity workers — is Firefox and Chrome. Otherwise, outside of programmers and highly specific use cases, hardly anyone would use a Linux desktop.<p>And that’s kudos to the fact that so much of what we do these days is in a browser.<p>But if you look at the small pieces of software to do everyday things - they are awful.<p>Dropbox barely works in a sustainable way.<p>I have to keep pulling out my laptop every now and then to do simple office productivity things.<p>Yeah yeah, I know that Apple is a trillion dollar company that had a room full of people just working on the screen capture feature alone.<p>And yeah, I use Linux every day for programming. But Brah, all the little widgets and do-da’s need some serious polishing.