Desktop: Arch Linux
Phone: Pinephone
At the end of this article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e77y/the-dollar149-smartph...
"But even without those changes, this device could be enough to kickstart a Linux-driven mobile revolution."
Linux needs a decent productivity suite of apps (preview, mail, calendar etc) the current offering is terrible
Replacements, all decent or better:
- Preview: GNOME Document Viewer (now supports PDF form filling), Master PDF Editor (paid and proprietary), built-in PDF editor in Firefox/Chromium, Okular; GNOME Image Viewer, Gwenview, Pantheon Photos (part of elementary OS)
- Mail: Thunderbird, Evolution, Kontact (KMail component), Geary, Pantheon Mail, Claws Mail, Mailspring
- Calendar: Thunderbird (built-in calendar), GNOME Calendar, Evolution, Kontact (KOrganizer component), Pantheon Calendar
A couple of weeks ago I needed to do some very simple PDF "editing": I had 2 PDFs (A and B) and I needed to get some pages 2 (of 5) from PDF-A and 2 (of 5) pages of PDF-B into a single PDF. I tried to do that on Linux Mint and it was a nightmare: Download PDFSam, create PDF from PDF-A with 2 pages, create PDF from PDF-B with 2 pages and then merge those 2 PDFs.
The way I achieve that in my Mac is by opening both file in preview, select and drag the pages I want from PDF-A to PDF-B and then select and delete the pages I don't want from PDF-B.
Why do these simple things have to be so cumbersome in Linux in 2021?