I really wish I could recommend Libreoffice but I have mixed experiences with it. Spreadsheet is really good, I can only praise it. Writer is fine for basic documents but I gave up updating my CV with it - too frustrating. Impress is so far from PowerPoint that I recommend finding an alternative.

I hope you don’t try windows cause you’ll find even more problems

Amazing that it works so well, nice!

However I can’t help thinking usability improvements are urgent. The key one being how you need to bring up the menu with a 2 finger slide up, and then click again on the right button to get the list of apps, which is not even user friendly. Then, clicking on the top right window button to close the app, which you seemed to have difficulties to click on (with good reasons).

Finally you drag and drop a lot, can’t you click on the music file directly without opening the app in parallel?

I can see you’re not using Flatpak, the destroyer of disk space. Nice list though!

For email hosting only. But yes, they are not as trustworthy as they once were

It looks as if it’s hard to maintain a browser by design by making overly complicated HTML/CSS/Javascript/etc standards.

It makes me want to spend more time using the Gemini protocol.

In my experience with this format, only the good ones are leaving and you’re stuck with the rest.

It’s been a bumpy road. I have strong memories of Gnome devs explaining to users how wrong they were to dislike Nautilus’s awful spatial mode. And when that guy refused to implement a switch off option because users were wrong to ask for it.

Now really, it’s quite functional once you’ve tweaked with gnome-tools and added vital extensions. You also have to remember useless stuff such as “Video” means “Totem”. I’ll just never understand why they don’t really care about sane defaults.

Misskey seems really popular looking at numbers. I’m confused because nobody talks about it. Is it because of some niche super active audience?

Same question: super weird to leave them out…

Unfortunately yes.

I’m a minority: I’m using Signal a lot, as well as Mastodon and Lemmy. However I was describing the situation around me and they’re largely using Meta products.

I don’t mind having 2 tools: one for public conversations with strangers and one for family and friends.

WhatsApp has replaced Facebook for family and friends here in France. However, I keep using Facebook due to local groups and town hall posting there.

Any chance the videos are hosted somewhere else than TikTok?

Thanks. That’s too bad because I really want them to succeed

I will not do any gaming on my laptop, I really only need a quality screen to read documents and display the occasional Netflix video

While I like the general objectives behind framework, I am not convinced about their standard qualities.

My laptop is fine, I just want to understand the trends in the industry and where to buy when it eventually dies. For the record, I have a Dell Latitude 7410 released in 2020 (bought used) and it works perfectly. However, I wish I could have better audio, higher-quality trackpad, and a lighter laptop.

Thanks!

I was under the impression they were more gaming oriented than “business”, am I mistaken then?

Dear random strangers,

I have bought Thinkpad T for many years following your advice. Then I moved to Dell Latitude 3 years ago as this was your recommendation. So far, very happy with them!

Where should I go for my next laptop? Is it time for framework?

(I’m looking for 14" business laptops, excellent screen, good audio, light and solid, performance is a nice-to-have, Linux-only)

Same for Reddit, still very much alive apparently.

(I’m not going back, I’m happy here)