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I'm doing web dev on macOS. Tried to plan how I'd work on Linux desktop if I ditched Mac and it doesn't look that bright actually.

- I basically can't stand the usability linux desktop environments. But this is subjective.

- Our designers use a lot of mac software. I sometimes need to work with Sketch, Photoshop etc. Even if it's in read only fashion.

- Our team lives in Slack. Turns out these is no decent slack app for linux and I'd have to use the web app. No thanks.

Development generally requires collaboration with other people. I can't see myself easily working with non developers on a Linux desktop. I run Linux servers because only the developers touch them.

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> - Our team lives in Slack. Turns out these is no decent slack app for linux and I'd have to use the web app. No thanks.

the slack app for other platforms are made from the web app (Electron).

Yeah but they are integrated (native notifications, file access, a window that does not go away with the browser or tied to it, decent looking chrome etc). When I need to use it that much I prefer an app, even if it's a shell actually.

Eh, people said the same about Gmail but that no-install email client turned out to be wildly successful.

Give it a rest - web applications running in generalized browsers make awful desk-tray applications. The mac & windows Slack app is great - all of the power and connected-ness of a web app without all of the annoyances of accidental web browser navigation.

If you're using it that much, perhaps you should re-think how good it is for your productivity :)

Exactly - just about the ideal sort of desktop application right now is a web app running in a dedicated web view. You don't worry about accidentally closing it with the rest of your browser or navigating away from it, but you still have the awesome-ness of a web application.

Well Sketch and Photoshop are more design less dev so there's not much of a choice for those people.

Have you tried ScudCloud on linux?

1. Have you tried https://elementary.io/ ?

2. PDF? I know it's not ideal.

3. Slack for Linux is in beta, but I've been using it for six months without issue: https://slack.com/downloads/linux

I hear there are preferences, yes.

The only think outside of purely subjective matters is Photoshop. Our designers use SVGs/PNGs for read-only purposes.

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