I’d pay for native linux support. They should provide direct support to Heroic if they don’t want to take on the cost themselves full bore. I remember some AMA they did where the cost of Linux wasn’t worth their already thin margins and they were happy with Heroic. If they were ever going to grow, I’d believe that they would need to address the handheld market and getting their storefront more visible
I’d say try Linux. Ubuntu or Fedora and you’ll realize how much of your computer usage is based out a web browser and it doesn’t matter whether you have a Linux, Mac, or Windows computer
Email you’ll be stuck with some corporate entity that won’t be 100% open source. Running an email server and your emails not being filtered is a pain. I use Proton applications for email, VPN, and Dropbox type service. They have a calendar but hard to beat google calendar
Signal for pretty much texting. I actually have around a dozen people I primarily message through Signal so it’s viable for me
Matrix/Element for something like discord.
Onlyoffice, Libreoffice, or WPS Office instead of MS Office. WPS may not be open source
Browser use Firefox or Firefox forks
Krita, Darktable, GIMP for image editing
KeepassXC for my desktop password manager and whatever is available on Android
Maps you can use Organic Maps
Video editing i use kdenlive
I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed. They’re standard on any Linux distribution I’ve ever used. When building out pipelines, scripts that you want run from an installer you built post install and when removing, sed and awk rather than needing python.
All really nice when you have strict configuration management and versioning and there’s something deployed but it doesn’t have the python packages installed that would make it easy in python and you can’t just pip install it on hundreds+ of computers without going through a process of approval and building a new tagged version release but sed/awk/etc can do the job. If it’s hard enough, python and whatever packages you can install. If simple enough to do in a small bash script, no python just what’s standard in your Linux distro
I’d copy you and drop the hardware. Just: you deserve better
I’ll buy it too. First time hearing of it
That’s a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS