I’d say the stopping thing is a few multiplayer PvP games with anticheat, also some software that won’t work in Wine (adobe products, corel products, microsoft products).
Yes, I know alternatives exist (Krita, Inkscape, LibreOffice). No, they are not 100% drop-in replacements. I for myself love working in LibreOffice Writer, but when you work in a place where everyone except you uses MS Word and expects DOCX files, you can’t “just” switch to linux without issue.
IMHO it’s the best PDF editor out there, idk why Adobe is considered the standard PDF software when it’s so terrible compared to PDF XChange. XChange editor has every possible tool I ever needed, you can move around objects, change text, move and rotate and crop pages etc. It’s just so good. You can’t even edit text in adobe acrobat properly because it will break the text layout, in XChange you can if you’re careful with fonts, spacing, indents etc.
It’s miles ahead of adobe acrobat and works in Linux as well, I know it’s proprietary and pursists will hate me but it’s my go to tool when I need to do anything serious with PDF in both windows and linux.
Others have already explained about PDF not being easy to edit and lack of FOSS tools.
The only advice I can give is that PDF XChange editor works well under Wine if you have it.
Not to soud rude, but how is your “best DE” thread different from thousands of other “best DE” threads where everyone already gave their opinion? There’s plenty of “opinions” on “best DE” online.
Flatpak:
Sucks
User:
Comes to linux community to complain
Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn’t work for you?
I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.
Thank god we have people like you. Please never stop telling people it’s ok to use this word.
I comment the commands that I want and then use vim to remove ones without comments.
For example, I run:
longandannoyingcommand -f1 -f2 -f3 # keep, does something useful
Usually comment explains what the command does so I can find it by description using fzf history search.
And then you can easily find all lines that contain (or do not contain “# keep”) in your history to remove or keep.
Arch users switching back to Arch after 10 minutes of using Ubuntu:
Yes. You choose the compose key in your DE settings (usually right alt key), then you can press it and type compose sequences to insert unusual symbols or strings.
Thank you very much!
Looks like the site is down or blocked in my country.
Could anyone please be so nice and copy paste those commands here?
Can you press “custom” and enter 0?
No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.
I may also want to type out someone’s email NOT in an email client, while in terminal, for example in bash shell or in vim.
Is there Google and/or Outlook integration into a terminal (Konsole) I’m not aware of?
Because email clients are not the only place where I enter emails. And not every program supports address book integration.
I might be filling out online forms and enter someone’s email or phone number or any other long string such as full name I can’t remember how to properly spell.
Well you can have 1 letter sequences which is almost what you want. For example have a sequence that consists of single “u” key that composes into “ü” or something similar.
I don’t know if it’s the same in every DE/Distro, but in KDE I’m pretty sure I can both hold the Compose key and type sequences, or press Compose key once and then type a sequence.
But can’t check right now.
Could you please ELI5 what are spill ranges?
Tbh I don’t have an answer and this isn’t what you’re looking for, but have you heard of Compose key? I don’t know what is kmomad, but I’m pretty happy with my custom compose sequences.
I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.
I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.