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I have found daily-driving Ubuntu at Delft shocking pleasant. Chrome, zotero, obsidian, zoom, and so on all work great. Outlook, teams, and the office suite, an

I have found daily-driving Ubuntu at Delft shocking pleasant. Chrome, zotero, obsidian, zoom, and so on all work great. Outlook, teams, and the office suite, and signing pdfs are all the sharpest edges by far. I feel if the TUs were required to dogfood this, especially if generously funded such that startups could come along and provide the same service and support, that it could be a great positive externality

letmetweakit 1y ago
Why would you need Outlook? Can't you use it in a browser?
- anonymouskimmer 1y ago
  Yes, and the same can be done with Teams. That's what I do on my Linux laptop.
  - elbear 1y ago
    My university uses Teams and the browser version is missing some features. For example, I can't see the files uploaded by the professor. That tab won't load.
- amoshebb 1y ago
  Yes, chrome gives me a little “PWA” so I can even have an icon in my dock, but it’s not as nice
aquariusDue 1y ago
PDF signing is the bane of my existence, luckily I can get by with a cloud solution but it's nowhere near how easy I wish it would be. Sadly I'm still forced to use a Windows VM or dual-boot because the tax authority in my country requires a root/digital certificate for login to their web system, at least for incorporated entities.
- anonymouskimmer 1y ago
  Would this procedure work with the certificates you need to use? https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/lab-infrastructure/installing-windows-ca-root-certificate-on-linux-and-firefox/ https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/lab-infrastructure/install...
  - aquariusDue 1y ago
    Thanks for the tip, it might work if I can figure out where the certificate is stored on Windows because I am forced to go through an application first. The application I mentioned: https://www.certsign.ro/en/products/eidas-trust-services/paperless-vtoken/ https://www.certsign.ro/en/products/eidas-trust-services/pap... Also back on Windows the website I needed to access didn't work with Firefox so I had to resort to Chrome sadly but maybe I'll have better luck now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
    - anonymouskimmer 1y ago
      You're welcome. This article is from Microsoft itself and may help more: https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox. The certutil commands for it are apparently these: https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-add-ca-certificate-to-vivaldi-2 https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-ad...
- Spunkie 1y ago
  I can find a dozen solutions to sign a PDF on linux without much trouble. Now redacting seems a whole nother story. I've failed to find even a single option on linux that does real PDF redaction like adobe acrobat. Most don't do redaction at all or worse they say they redact but it's actually just black highlighter on black text or some other kind of overlay that leaves the underlying text data intact.

letmetweakit 1y ago

Why would you need Outlook? Can't you use it in a browser?

anonymouskimmer 1y ago
Yes, and the same can be done with Teams. That's what I do on my Linux laptop.
- elbear 1y ago
  My university uses Teams and the browser version is missing some features. For example, I can't see the files uploaded by the professor. That tab won't load.
amoshebb 1y ago
Yes, chrome gives me a little “PWA” so I can even have an icon in my dock, but it’s not as nice

aquariusDue 1y ago

PDF signing is the bane of my existence, luckily I can get by with a cloud solution but it's nowhere near how easy I wish it would be. Sadly I'm still forced to use a Windows VM or dual-boot because the tax authority in my country requires a root/digital certificate for login to their web system, at least for incorporated entities.

anonymouskimmer 1y ago
Would this procedure work with the certificates you need to use? https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/lab-infrastructure/installing-windows-ca-root-certificate-on-linux-and-firefox/ https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/lab-infrastructure/install...
- aquariusDue 1y ago
  Thanks for the tip, it might work if I can figure out where the certificate is stored on Windows because I am forced to go through an application first. The application I mentioned: https://www.certsign.ro/en/products/eidas-trust-services/paperless-vtoken/ https://www.certsign.ro/en/products/eidas-trust-services/pap... Also back on Windows the website I needed to access didn't work with Firefox so I had to resort to Chrome sadly but maybe I'll have better luck now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
  - anonymouskimmer 1y ago
    You're welcome. This article is from Microsoft itself and may help more: https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ https://woshub.com/add-certificate-to-trusted-on-linux/ Vivaldi is a nice chromium-based browser that I use on Linux for sites that don't work on Firefox. The certutil commands for it are apparently these: https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-add-ca-certificate-to-vivaldi-2 https://labs.gwendragon.de/blog/Web/Browser/Vivaldi/linux-ad...
Spunkie 1y ago
I can find a dozen solutions to sign a PDF on linux without much trouble. Now redacting seems a whole nother story. I've failed to find even a single option on linux that does real PDF redaction like adobe acrobat. Most don't do redaction at all or worse they say they redact but it's actually just black highlighter on black text or some other kind of overlay that leaves the underlying text data intact.