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Learn a little about imagemagick [1], it will change your life! Edit: also, I bet doing an rclone mount of your Dropbox will be pretty seamless and stable, hav

Learn a little about imagemagick [1], it will change your life! Edit: also, I bet doing an rclone mount of your Dropbox will be pretty seamless and stable, havent tested this personally though [2]. If you don't like the command line interfaces, then yeah you are probably better off with a Mac. 1. https://imagemagick.org/ https://imagemagick.org/ 2. https://rclone.org/dropbox/ https://rclone.org/dropbox/

greggsy 5y ago
Most users don’t want to use the CLI.
- hall0ween 5y ago
  Linux self selects: if you use linux you’ll need to become familiar with command line. It seems out of whack to complain about linux without investing a wee bit of time with cli.
- beepbooptheory 5y ago
  Yes, then I just think for now they are better of with one of the other two. I think its great what progress is happening on the GUI front, but I won't argue with gp that some things are a little sketchy. But for those who do have the patience and understanding for the shell and man pages, well they can become more powerful than the other Oses combined!
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  it's their right but it's not the car's fault if people don't want to use keys to start them up. anyway, there's a huge amount of GUI software to handle PDFs in Linux, I will say that Linux gives you the most options, either as free software and close source ones. Hell Acrobat is gold on WineHQ!
wildrhythms 5y ago
I don't want to annotate an image with a CLI, and neither do you. And a CLI is the worst UI possible for a visual task like editing an image. Apple figured this out 38 years ago with MacPaint.
- beepbooptheory 5y ago
  Maybe not a single image, for some ephemeral task I guess, I was more just responding to the gp: >Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly share with someone else over chat. Normal productivity stuff. But I don't really know what to say: I very much do prefer the cli! Even if it takes some trial and error, finding the right script that does exactly what you want gives you a reproducible and concise record of your alterations, so if you are in a position where you need to make, say, 100 images with similar annotations, possibly from a csv file or something, you can just do it! Also, it's lightweight, it's a comprehensible process, you know exactly what you are doing, rather than in some alienated userspace where you can never be sure. I won't argue anyone "wants to", but I know what I want I think! Pinta [1] is a lightweight MS Paint type program with broad support and a BSD license. It just works. 1. https://www.pinta-project.com/ https://www.pinta-project.com/

greggsy 5y ago

Most users don’t want to use the CLI.

hall0ween 5y ago
Linux self selects: if you use linux you’ll need to become familiar with command line. It seems out of whack to complain about linux without investing a wee bit of time with cli.
beepbooptheory 5y ago
Yes, then I just think for now they are better of with one of the other two. I think its great what progress is happening on the GUI front, but I won't argue with gp that some things are a little sketchy. But for those who do have the patience and understanding for the shell and man pages, well they can become more powerful than the other Oses combined!
peoplefromibiza 5y ago
it's their right but it's not the car's fault if people don't want to use keys to start them up. anyway, there's a huge amount of GUI software to handle PDFs in Linux, I will say that Linux gives you the most options, either as free software and close source ones. Hell Acrobat is gold on WineHQ!

wildrhythms 5y ago

I don't want to annotate an image with a CLI, and neither do you. And a CLI is the worst UI possible for a visual task like editing an image. Apple figured this out 38 years ago with MacPaint.

beepbooptheory 5y ago
Maybe not a single image, for some ephemeral task I guess, I was more just responding to the gp: >Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly share with someone else over chat. Normal productivity stuff. But I don't really know what to say: I very much do prefer the cli! Even if it takes some trial and error, finding the right script that does exactly what you want gives you a reproducible and concise record of your alterations, so if you are in a position where you need to make, say, 100 images with similar annotations, possibly from a csv file or something, you can just do it! Also, it's lightweight, it's a comprehensible process, you know exactly what you are doing, rather than in some alienated userspace where you can never be sure. I won't argue anyone "wants to", but I know what I want I think! Pinta [1] is a lightweight MS Paint type program with broad support and a BSD license. It just works. 1. https://www.pinta-project.com/ https://www.pinta-project.com/