Can someone explain why every single “distro selection guide” lists Arch as a distro for advanced users?

It’s gonna break bookmarks, if this is not important then yes, Draw could work for relatively simple edits. Depends a lot on the file itself.

Easier said than done.

Slightly OT, but PDF Xchange Editor works great under wine, and tbh I think it’s miles ahead of Acrobat in terms of features.

What’s the “BDS” list? Never heard of it.

I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.

I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.

I’d say the stopping thing is a few multiplayer PvP games with anticheat, also some software that won’t work in Wine (adobe products, corel products, microsoft products).

Yes, I know alternatives exist (Krita, Inkscape, LibreOffice). No, they are not 100% drop-in replacements. I for myself love working in LibreOffice Writer, but when you work in a place where everyone except you uses MS Word and expects DOCX files, you can’t “just” switch to linux without issue.

IMHO it’s the best PDF editor out there, idk why Adobe is considered the standard PDF software when it’s so terrible compared to PDF XChange. XChange editor has every possible tool I ever needed, you can move around objects, change text, move and rotate and crop pages etc. It’s just so good. You can’t even edit text in adobe acrobat properly because it will break the text layout, in XChange you can if you’re careful with fonts, spacing, indents etc.

It’s miles ahead of adobe acrobat and works in Linux as well, I know it’s proprietary and pursists will hate me but it’s my go to tool when I need to do anything serious with PDF in both windows and linux.

Others have already explained about PDF not being easy to edit and lack of FOSS tools.

The only advice I can give is that PDF XChange editor works well under Wine if you have it.

Not to soud rude, but how is your “best DE” thread different from thousands of other “best DE” threads where everyone already gave their opinion? There’s plenty of “opinions” on “best DE” online.

Flatpak:

Sucks

User:

Comes to linux community to complain

Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn’t work for you?

I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.

Could you help me with GPU passthrough?

I technically have 2 GPUs in my laptop, one integrated into intel CPU and one discrete nvidia (so called “optimus”). Is it possible to pass nvidia while keeping intel for linux DE?

I tried to read some tutorials but tbh they all leave more questions than give answers.

Gnome can’t ship a config to disable secondary selection because there is no secondary selection.

Nobody is removing it?…

Never even thought of that, but this is genious.

Maybe using ctrl for that is not the best decision, but I understand this was just a showcase. I wish this actually existed and was used in real desktop environments.

Not a solution you want, but consider custom compose key sequences for repetitive text.

I guess we as a society will never get rid of pedophiles as long as we are so afraid of being stigmatized that we can’t even call pedophile a “pedophile”.

Oh, true, lol. Thanks. Maybe it was voice input.

PDF files? What does the game have to do with PDF files?

I get what you are saying and understand the balance between convenience and security, however most end users don’t care. Their thing stops working and they complain “Wayland bad, my workflow now broken!”, nothing you can do.

I’m not the OP, but tbh the only thing that doesn’t work for me is the apps that replace your input by the same thing in another layout.

For example, you have 2 keyboard layouts, type something and realize afterwards that you forgot to change the keyboard layout. You press the hotkey to trigger a script that removes your input, translates it into a different keyboard layout and pastes it back.

People who only use 1 keyboard layout don’t even think about this issue and usually don’t know such software exists.

I miss it a lot. There’s 1 script that works in wayland but it’s pretty buggy and it’s not in arch repos, so I don’t trust it too much. X11 had many options.