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What a topsy-turvy article.

Mail is fine if you use browser-based solutions. Nobody is talking about only sending plaintext emails? Wtf?

Why are they running so much stuff on wine?

Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks?

How does anyone think nautilus is good?

How does anyone think that Gimp/inkscape are better than affinity designer?

These are the things they find useful about linux? There's so much more that makes linux a powerful solution (e.g. great window managers like i3), or much better support for shell based workflows.

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> How does anyone think nautilus is good?

I think it's great. If I had to pick between Finder, Windows File Explorer, Nautilus, or Dolphin. I'd honestly choose Nautilus. It's visually simple, has previews, built in support for Google Drive, easy to find how to show hidden files, if I double click an archived file; it decompresses it, and it has an "Open Terminal" right click prompt. If I had to walk someone through performing a file system action, say over a phone, I feel confident that I could do so with the least confusion using Nautilus. I simply never have understood the arguments against Nautilus and am extremely thankful to the developers who have chosen to make the hard decision to reduce features to make the application maintainable.

> Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks?

This makes sense if you install a distro like Manjaro or Arch. Not something I'd ever recommend to someone who's taking Linux for a first spin. I don't think I've had any troubles doing regular kernel upgrades, though, the problems mostly laid in proprietary drivers, specifically Nvidia's.

> How does anyone think nautilus is good?

I have no problems with Nautilus. Perhaps it's not the greatest file manager, but it's way ahead of Finder in my opinion.

Fedora also does kernel updates within a stable release, and some proprietary hardware works best with it while being mildly broken on Debian-derived distros so I might even recommend it to some first-time users.

Maybe how you use Linux is different from how the authors uses Linux? Maybe their relation to their computer is different from yours? Maybe Linux serves some use cases well, and not others?

What file browser do you use? I’m currently on Nautilus, and am not a fan.

What’s wrong with nautilus?

>Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks?

I'm pretty sure I had like 4 kernel upgrades on my Fedora machine in the last month.

>great window managers like i3

Tiling wms like i3 target a very narrow user base. Unless you are a sysadmin or just work only with terminal they are pretty useless.

I don't have non-maximized windows for example (except for Telegram, Obsidian and iTerm quake-like instance)

> Tiling wms like i3 target a very narrow user base. Unless you are a sysadmin or just work only with terminal they are pretty useless.

If you only use the terminal, you don't need a tiling WM because tmux and others offer similar functionality out of the box.

Tiling WMs are useful in the opposite scenario, when you use many different apps and need a unified way to manage them all.

Valid point, I stand corrected.

I just can't imagine working in an environment where you have, say, 4 apps occupying 4 parts of your screen continuously.

Splitting screen in two (terminal and browser) is the common scenario for me but you don't need i3 for this.

I agree that you don't need i3 for the common scenario (IDE + terminal in my case). i3 is more about the myriad of uncommon scenarios that come up all the time.

For example, maybe I want to keep an eye on several terminal commands at the same time. With i3 I just press the terminal shortcut n times and I have n new terminal windows sharing the space. If one of the commands fails with a long error message I press another shortcut and the terminal windows are now tabbed and full height, with the IDE still visible on the side.

Or maybe I want a small browser window or Slack window in a corner to keep an eye on a meeting or discussion while I work.

Whatever uncommon layout best serves my needs right now, i3 can get it done in seconds.

You never really need a tiling WM, though. i3 just solves my problems really well, so well in fact that I actively enjoy using it. Some people feel the same way about vim, and you never really need vim either.

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