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> In a world of Chromebooks and virtualized/web apps, the need for customization and multiple flavours is dwindling — we are good with the browser running smoot

> In a world of Chromebooks and virtualized/web apps, the need for customization and multiple flavours is dwindling — we are good with the browser running smoothly. > What we need is snappy window management, smooth scrolling and simply a beautiful environment. I love having single purpose native applications running on my laptop. The current situation with a GNOME desktop environment is terrible. Where are the regularly updated RSS feed readers, native blogging clients, journaling applications, podcast players? Moving from a macbook to a linux laptop has now become a massive downgrade. I wonder if the iOS and Android app stores have become so profitable that developers who would previously build linux desktop applications have all moved on to greener pastures.

SifrNihilum 6y ago
I'm confused by this. In my experience there are PLENTY of up to date and generally consistently updated apps on the Linux desktop. In a lot of cases, I can find more things that work out of the box on Linux than I can on any other system. If we go with the idea that the universal Linux the author speaks of should be Ubuntu with GNOME, then RSS is covered easily by 'feeds' which is still updated, as is 'feedreader', native blogging is a bit more complex, what does that mean? Microblogging is well supported. Multiple options for twitter, or mastodon are available. If you're hosting your own blog, hugo, jekyll, nift, are all easily supported. I admit I don't do Journaling at all, so I can't help with that, but I'm pretty sure there are options. Podcasting though is pretty easy to cover. Spotify if you just want something quick and easy, GNOME podcasts, Vocal, just look in the Ubuntu store and you'll see heaps of options. If you just like your macbook, that's fine, but let's not malign Linux because it isn't apple...

SifrNihilum 6y ago

I'm confused by this. In my experience there are PLENTY of up to date and generally consistently updated apps on the Linux desktop. In a lot of cases, I can find more things that work out of the box on Linux than I can on any other system. If we go with the idea that the universal Linux the author speaks of should be Ubuntu with GNOME, then RSS is covered easily by 'feeds' which is still updated, as is 'feedreader', native blogging is a bit more complex, what does that mean? Microblogging is well supported. Multiple options for twitter, or mastodon are available. If you're hosting your own blog, hugo, jekyll, nift, are all easily supported. I admit I don't do Journaling at all, so I can't help with that, but I'm pretty sure there are options. Podcasting though is pretty easy to cover. Spotify if you just want something quick and easy, GNOME podcasts, Vocal, just look in the Ubuntu store and you'll see heaps of options. If you just like your macbook, that's fine, but let's not malign Linux because it isn't apple...