Why is it that in modern #Linux OSes we have to stick with the original format when saviing files with the OS dialogue?
Isn't it an easy task to convert say a JPEG to PNG? I'm a #Gnome user btw.
Folks who might be looking to move from Windows to Linux: another option, if it’s financially feasible for you and you don’t want to mess with installing Linux, is to sell your Windows machine and buy a Linux one.
If I were to buy a new laptop with some version of newbie friendly linux preloaded, intending to use it for music and graphics arts (not gaming), social media, and regular LibreOffice type stuff (and affinity, audacity, etc), what laptop would I buy with what version of linux?
With SaveDesktop you can save your current configuration (themes, icons, wallpapers, all desktop environment settings, extensions, Flatpak, etc.) on a USB key or external disk, then import it after a clean install 🙂
Who should be software packaging is a tough problem, I can see the value in #linux distros pushing for better changes downstream, encouraging upstream to change (double click in #KDE) but then I see cases like KeepassXC where the Debian package is now by default broken, actively damaging the reputation of upstream but then I remember #XZ where upstream was left unchecked and hid bad code in plain sight and I go back around in a circle.
Linux distributions should limit themselves to only offering an operating system and no longer deal with (graphical) user applications. Especially now that we have Flatpak.
This would give them more resources to increase the support life of their distributions, which would undoubtedly be much more useful.
