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.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 share with someone else over chat. Normal productivity stuff.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.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.And that’s kudos to the fact that so much of what we do these days is in a browser.But if you look at the small pieces of software to do everyday things - they are awful.Dropbox barely works in a sustainable way.I have to keep pulling out my laptop every now and then to do simple office productivity things.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.And yeah, I use Linux every day for programming. But Brah, all the little widgets and do-da’s need some serious polishing.