Good changes! My experience with the Universal Blue images have been amazing. The stability is great and it really brings the "it just works" feeling to Linux.
Containers aren't perfect, and sometimes getting something installed in a container can be difficult, but once you have it working, it is always reproducible. For example, getting Android Studio working on Bluefin was a bit of a difficulty (the flatpak does not just work out of the box).
It's high overhead, but having a VM just for Excel isn't that insane. Performance differences these days are negligible, and if you are just using Excel I doubt it's that much of a problem. There is also Google Sheets.
For planning, Jira is king and available as a web app.
This is great when you completely discount almost all gamers or people doing graphical work? Proton is only so good and many games are still completely broken.
We'll come back with 'We don't pay monthly subscription models for shady companies like adobe who then charge you a large fee just to cancel your monthly subscription fee to use photoshop' there's cool things like photopea, but yeah there's no rebuttal for Windows only and Windows-specific made software.
To each their own. I'm rooting for linux desktop to be the future though. For gamers, for photo editors, artists. All of us.
> Adobe softwate is best we have on market on audio-visual production.
It's good, but besides Premier I really don't think many of Adobe's products are hot shit nowadays. You can do most of the same compositing you do in Sony Vegas with Blender and Davinci Resolve; today's tools are diverse enough that you don't need Adobe. And for music production and photo editing, I don't even think Adobe is a competitor. Affinity Photo eats Photoshop's lunch, and everyone else that wasn't going to pay for a photo editor can use GIMP or Photopea.
Unless you explicitly work at an Adobe-only shop, I really see no reason to continue using modern Adobe products. The value is just so bad compared to what you can buy elsewhere.
Adobe product has dynamic-links between each others, so you can easily make cut in Premiere, motion graphic in After Effects with assets from Photoshop, sound and music in Audition and all changes are visible instantly in one project.
For photography unfortunately all other editors are impractical, except Capture One which has even worse price policy.
Don't let me start with collaboration with other studios or plugin compatibility.
While Affinity might be true alternative for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, it is not compatible with linux.
Not a fork, it is just based on Gecko from what I can tell on their GitHub. To be fair, Zen is clearly targeting a regular audience who most likely do not know what Gecko is.
There is an app called Kiwi Browser that does support extensions on Android. The issue becomes no sync, which I think is also a feature you are looking for.
It makes sense that Chrome has never built it, have to keep the users from using Adblock.
I'm aware of Kiwi, but it lags for months to a year behind chromium updates, which is very dangerous.
Chrome for sure, I was surprised that also any other browser (Via, Soul, Brave, vivaldi) don't support extensions.
I'm on Brave now because while it does not support ublock origin, the adblocker is stronger than the others I tried and works similarly. It also has some sort of builtin sponsorblock, so I use it on the phone over Firefox which is slow.
Also important note, but Firefox account settings/sync is End-to-End encrypted, a nice privacy feature compared to the much more invasive Google Account sync.
They only compared to Firefox-based browsers which does make sense. Most people are already firmly on one side of the Chromium vs FF engine debate.
Compared to Brave in what terms? Speed, not sure, but Chromium is known to be better. As far as I know, Brave doesn't allow split tabs or workspaces though.
Seems like workspaces are just a different UI for tab grouping, some ppl may prefer it. For me both are usable, but both are just a partial remedy for people that keep too much tabs opened
Currently running Arch + Hyprland, and the whole setup runs smoothly just off of the iGPU and is a savior on my battery life.
Kind of sucks to have an expensive laptop and not use the GPU at all, I might switch to using the GPU when plugged in and when I unplug it have a script switch back to the iGPU.
I also have an XPS 15 and I hate it. The sharp edge of the keyboard deck is so uncomfortable on my wrists. It also flexes a ton of I move it and will register clicks. And then it gets scorching hot.
I'm glad you like it but I can't wait to get a new laptop someday.
Containers aren't perfect, and sometimes getting something installed in a container can be difficult, but once you have it working, it is always reproducible. For example, getting Android Studio working on Bluefin was a bit of a difficulty (the flatpak does not just work out of the box).