The other day I was planning a trip from the RGV to Austin. I was not quite in the mood for driving so my options were an expensive flight or an expensive and long bus drive.

I found TexStudio on the pop shop and I have been liking it. Before that I was just using vim with a few plugins.

That is a really awesome paint job!

I think Linux often does get an unfair benchmark on these things. It is ultimately up to the publisher to make their software available in Linux. We don’t say that Windows is bad because it cannot run Final Cut Pro? I would say that the Chromebook being a commercial success is proof that the trifecta of I can’t use Linux because of MS Office, gaming, or video editing is not a big deal for causal users. No one is buying a Chromebook for any of those reasons.

undefined> hypocrites are happy to claim to be superior in their rugged individualism

Few Libertarians would be able to live, let along enjoy living, in Latin America outside of the rich neighborhoods and resorts.

undefined> does not apply because we can fork lemmy at any time.

Not to be a contrarian, but I feel this is a false claim here. After some time we will lose the mind share that gets people to switch over. People won’t switch from Messenger and WhatsApp to Telegram or Signal. At one point people are just too situated.

undefined> Hasn’t chromebook grown so quickly largely because they have a bunch of programs incentivising schools to buy them for students?

That is very true, but due to many things being web apps I have seen them be used as cheap browser only computers for grandma and a few places for employees to use a portal. Still they don’t have much of gaming or MS Office, so i think my point stands.

undefined> Given that, should I distro hop?

Yes

How does Oracle play into this?