Europe experiencing what LATAM, SE Asia and Africa have had to deal for a long time but now the shoe is on the other foot and it's a huge deal all the sudden.
I've been saying that the re-election of Trump firmly turned the US into a Latin American country: repressive right-wing government run for the benefit of US corporate interests, with questionable election integrity and widespread paramilitary violence against street protests.
I wonder how much would Adobe benefit from porting its suite to Linux for example. Do a Steam move and pick a fave distro, use some translation layer and bam. I vote for the unholy matrimony of Adobe+Steam to break the stronghold of MS+Apple.
That is pretty much the chicken and egg problem of Linux in regards to Apps and Games.
Many years I asked a very wise person: "what would happen if adobe port photoshop to Linux?"
The answer was "nothing". I asked why; the answers was: "no Photoshop user will migrate for Linux because of it, no gimp user will migrate to Photoshop".
Also, I've read in HN once: that are more people using Linux on the desktop than there are Photoshop users. People overestimate photoshop as a killer app.
I get why subscriptions are a thing but it's insane how much Lightroom costs if you're just a casual photographer. Especially the blatant push for yearly commitments and hoop jumping to cancel the trial.
I guess Adobe only wants professionals and very serious amateurs to use their products these days.
> I guess Adobe only wants professionals and very serious amateurs to use their products these days.
To be fair, OS-native (and free 3rd party) apps are very good for the average amateur photographer, unlike 15 years ago. I think the market size of that segment has shrunk as a result.
> but it's insane how much Lightroom costs if you're just a casual photographer
I'm not overly a fan of subscription software, but $9.99/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom is 1 1/2 coffees a month. If you're enough of a photographer that you lay out probably $700+ on a camera rather than your iPhone, then...
To me the downsides on installing on pure metal are bigger than running over something like UTM.
On my maxed out M1 Max I have a VM with Ubuntu 22.04. Runs flawless, I can expose IPs, share folders and multitask with macOS. And it runs very well with 10Gb of RAM and 3 CPU's.
Maybe in a few years an outdated mini could be my home server with Linux on bare metal but for work and play I prefer the flexibility of running on a VM.
To me there are only upsides: I don't like the Mac operating system but I love the hardware and running Ubuntu natively with all hardware supported would probably get me to upgrade. But I'm patient, the oldies are doing just fine, sooner or later that will just fall into my lap so no need to start taking risks running fresh stuff.
For my usage I am still heavily dependent on Macs since Adobe suite isn't available for Linux and the alternatives just do not compare. Neither in performance or interoperability. Davinci is a nice alternative to Premiere but Lightroom and Photoshop still reign supreme.
For the rest I am 100% on Linux as well. I used to game on Windows but MS made it such a hassle I just went Linux instead.
If I had one euro for every time The Economist has said that the Euro/EU were wobbly/breaking/etc I could balance Liz Truss'es budget and have money left for some fish'n'chips.
The Economist lost a lot of credibility with some of us around the turn of the century, when it fatally misunderstood US politics and wrote columns addressing people like Karl Rove and asking them to follow their better nature. (Karl Rove does not have a better nature.)
I've been reading Economist since a teenager it is by far the best source of general global news in bite sized format. Excellent in every way from writing to admitting to mistakes.
It is actually amazing that it is still relatively in the same shape despite of all the polarization in the world.
HN has a strict bias for attacking Economist because they tend to take positions on things HN doesn't want to confront (anti-EU in this article). My honest view of this place. So you see attacking Economist rather than actually debating the talking points, quite a pattern.
Well the Euro area has been an unmitigated disaster for more than a decade and could have fractured at multiple times during that period. It's prospects are terrible going forwards.
Geopolitics doesn't unfold at the pace of the 24 hour news cycle. Correct theories can play out in days, decades, or centuries. 10 years is a flash for these types of topics. Gloating that someone else was wrong on that time frame for Geopolitical events is not nearly as clever as it seems.
It seems that you like using GDrive. I developed docjumper.com which is a better interface to GDrive. It runs entirely client-side in your browser so that there are no added security concerns. But I don't know how much that would help you since there isn't any extra usefulness with Google Keep.
