Hucklebee

Thanks!

Yeah totally!

frantically searches for the meaning of all those abbreviations

If she used adobe suite for so many years, it would currently be agony to try and switch. It will take months, maybe even years to unlearn and relearn stuff properly.

Unless she only uses it for some simple cropping or something. Maybe you can add what kind of tools she actually uses?

Huh, never noticed that. Probably always thought that was just part of the program/files needed.

Thanks! Hmm, never thought of looking at 7zip’s settings to see if it can autodelete/not unpack that stuff. I’ll see if I can find such a setting!

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

I like that RTFM can also stand for Read The Fucking Manpage.

It goes to the question “geek?” Which then can be answered as “hobbyist” or “yes”, but the half circle makes it weird. That’s how I read it, but if you choose hobbyist you indeed get into an argument of “WHAT AM I?”

Edit: oh, the yes and no are UNDER the question if you’ve used Linux. The No on the left comes from another branch. Pfff, just woke up, now I even see you said exactly that. I need coffee…

That is one hell of a gaslight.

Or third leg ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

After typing this message, I realized how much crap I have to deal with in Mint (with my specific setup, not saying everyone has the same experience or that Mint is bad for everyone). I just installed PopOS. It absolutely handles different screen resolutions better out of the box. The tiling feature is interesting, but I’ll have to learn how to use it properly the coming weeks.

Overall, feels more sleek than Mint with the two hours I spent with it. Pop!_shop feels less cluttered with random repos than Mints Software manager. Where Mint out of the box feels like Windows 7 with a theme that sort of works but sort of feels unfinished and dated, PopOS feels more like OSX. This comes with less customizability on the looks, but atleast stuff that has a place on your screen looks right and has the right amount of padding.

Time will tell if this is the distro for me, or if I’ll be a distrohopper for life until I eventually land on Arch for the bragging rights.

My experience with Mint the last 8 weeks has been… mixed.

My biggesst issues:

-It handles two monitors with different resolutions poorly. I settled on accepting that one screen has just bigger UI now. There is an experimental setting that allows individual scaling per screen, but some apps don’t seem to use the systemwide scaling. It basically creates more problems than it solves.

-Dark mode is random. Some apps don’t support dark mode, but Mint still forces light fonts. Which makes those fonts unreadable on the light backgrounds.

-Window management is… weird with two monitors. If you have your screens setup in a certain way, windows will appear partly off screen,aking them undraggable or closable. Some windows you can just WIN+arrow but some popups don’t allow that.

Permissions can be a pain in the buttocks. Some flatpaks don’t give the right permissions, so you’ll be googling and sudo’ing your ass off at times. How can a flatpak for Arduino NOT give permissions to use USB? Dafuq?

Also, any permissions outside your home folders can (out of the box) only be changed through commandline. Which makes it a pain to install, for example, fonts, unless you dig through the 6 font managers that software manager shows. 2 of those font managers don’t have a gui, 1 can only install 1 font at a time, so after trying 3 programs you finally find one that works.

-Now that we talk about the software manager… It can be a pain to find the right stuff. Sometimes you search a program, and you’ll find 7 versions because thank FOSS and all it’s forks.

-Most documentation and questions are answered with using commandline. And sometimes, as a noob like me, you’ll damage more with those answers than you’ll solve.

I have had multiple OS wide hard freezes when unplugging USBs from an external USB hub. Only hard resetting the PC worked.

What I like so far:

-You can split the explorer in to two navigations. Super useful.

-you can fully customize your start menu and launch bar.

-the backup function is amazing

-most steam games work great

-it starts up rather quick

-it doesn’t track me like Windows does.

Might try Pop OS soon, although I also accept that switching an OS can just take time to get used to. Took me a few months to get accustomed to OSX years ago when I had a Mac Mini for 6 years.

I really, REALLY hope canva won’t screw up affinity.

I’ve used Gimp all through my teenage years. And I used it a LOT. It was quite a difficult transition to Photoshop (which my workplace uses). But once I got the hang of photoshop, I realized how convoluted Gimp really is.

Half the time spent in Gimp is making backups before making an edit. A third of your layers will be backup layers in case you change your mind about a design decision. The whole design process is super inflexible and therefor kills creativity.

Want to use an effect like gaussian blur or drop shadow? Make sure you backup your layer! Want to edit text after you stretched it all out? I hope you made a backup of that layer! Want to work with large files with many layers? You better hit ctrl S after every edit, because the program just might crash on you if you make a difficult selection!

To be fair, I haven’t used much Gimp since 2.8, so if stuff is different now: awesome! And I admire all volunteers that work to make stuff better. But for now, I’ll stay away from it if I need to do heavy editing.

I always wondered if I could contribute/volunteer to a FOSS somehow with some UIX stuff, but I don’t even know where to start. Would you just draw a concept ui for the team to work out or something?

Not that I’m great at it, but man, we gotta start somewhere, right?

Yes exactly. I used Gimp extensively (i think 2.8?) back in the day, and especially text was a pain to work with. If you rotated or resized text, you couldn’t change what the text said anymore.

Another example is making a layer grayscale. In gimp it would make the whole layer grayscale without any way to revert it. In Photoshop it sort of is like an extra “layer” on top of your colored layer that you can turn on and off, making it “non-destructive”

Nowadays I mainly use Illustrator for work, so I could indeed probably give Inscape a good try. But sometimes you just need to work with pixels and gimps destructive workflow is just a dealbreaker for me. Still, it’s impressive that the team got it so far, and I hope one day it will do a Blender and become the powehouse it deserves to be.

I haven’t yet, but I’ll check it out! I thought that was more a digital art/drawing program though, but could still be useful.

The biggest revelation for me when I switched to Photoshop for work about 4 years ago is that non-destructive editing is sooooo much nicer.

I always had dozens of “backup” layers in my years with Gimp just in case I messed something up. I was always cautious about the order in which you had to do things. I was amazed with photoshop at the fact that you could edit text after warping, gradient coloring and outlining it. Saved so much hassle.

I read non-destructive is in the pipelines for Gimp, and that would finally make it start become a viable alternative again.

What are you currently using instead of Adobe’s suite? I know about inkscape. And although I applaud the efforts, Scribus and Gimp seem to be no match for Indesign and Photoshop.

I read the first part in the singing voice of Chop Suey

Sudo system c. t. l. Disable suiciiiiiiiiiiiiiide