An Unabashed Geek at that. As much as I like the way Apple looks and feels, I detest that you are locked into it. The same goes for Windoze.
With GNU/Linux you have multiple #Desktops. #Gnome is probably the most popular (but please for Gawd's sakes don't quote me). Then there's #KDE (which makes me think of Windoze). Then #Mate, #Cinnamon, #Budgie, #LXQt, #Deepin. These are just a few. Each has it's own pros and cons (LXQt is extremely light on resources but not very customisable). Deepin has incredible graphics and animations, but is extremely resource hungry. Mate uses Gnome 2 (because the author hated Gnome 3). etc etc etc...
Shout out to Text Pieces! I needed to URL-encode a big ugly string (creating a template form from URL parameters, yay!) and yep, sure enough, it made it stupidly easy.
The next time you need to encode, transform, or convert some text on Linux, reach for this pretty little offline app instead of pasting your data into some random website. 👍
I voted in my first ever GNOME Foundation Board election today. If you're a foundation member who haven't done so, I strongly encourage you to read the candidate statements and vote, vote, vote!
I often feel like #Gnome could leverage right click in it's UI a lot more, all I can do if I right click on an app icon for example is open a new window, pin to dash and app details. App details is relatively useless because it's build into the Software Center and only recognizes apps installed from their, a "go to files" button is missing which would be very helpful, I can't hide a app from there using the GUI and for open Windows there is no right click to E.g. force quit or similar.
Anyone attending GUADEC in Denver want to chat about metered data and resource scheduling? I might have inherited some stuff there and I think it would be amazing to sync up with what everyone’s working on.
I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.
So I started working on one myself :blobfoxfloofcofe:
As the #Nautilus team keeps making progress in refactoring and optimizing #GNOMEFiles, we can see #GNOME's file manager steadily becoming faster.
Among the few performance issues remaining, I believe the probable "Final Boss" of search performance is this issue, which would require some refactoring across the views. Anyone up for a challenge? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3452
Spotify has gotten an update to its desktop UI, and I'm once again going to argue that it would look so much better on a general basis if it used an integrated header bar on Linux systems. The app is practically begging for it.