Ha ha. So funny… what’s ‘compile’?

I use Nextcloud for this. It has a sync app for the phone and PC. So photos, notes, documents, calendar and contacts. All immediately backed up and secure. It’s all available everywhere. And can be shared. Such as a gallery. I use a free hosted Nextcloud so no IT needed. And it’s cheap to up the storage amount.

Having a deadline for the end of combustion engines is intended to push big car business to put more effort into transitioning. If they drag their feet they will be left behind.

I too am very cautious of getting stuck with Linux. I try to be sure I’m not doing things the hard way. I have found easy distros and easy ways to do most things in Linux despite many people suggesting I do it the IT pro way that they do. Usually because they haven’t investigated easy ways for non IT users. They mean well, but don’t know about usability or if there us an easy way.

Sadly, big business, techies without imagination and community FOSS without enough capacity are the ones that control what is available. Nothing will suddenly change. Usability is way down the priority list.

That’s not necessarily so. There are all sorts of legacy reasons people give for making poor software. From lazy monopolies to programmers with little understanding of usability. To people without the big picture. It will change.

A GUI with good usability can let you repeat commands exactly if required. They use last used values as default. If people in needed that often we’d see more of it in GUI apps. There is often more useful functionality that get prioritised though.

I thought command line users like typing things. I avoid typing where possible, and dont use the command line on Linux.

Newer cobbled roads might be to make cars drive slower.

I get more bike maintenance issues if my route to work has a lot of cobbled roads. I end up taking longer routes to avoid the cobbles. There are not enough dedicated cycle paths.

In Gimp it was the enhancement to the command search. It needs to find a command when you type a slash. Before it would only execute the command. Now it tells you where it is. So you don’t need to search every time. In Inkscape there have been several. Most recently it was to reduce the width of the Text panel by moving some elements. As the Text panel is very wide. A full overhaul is due soon.

I’ve had my feature requests added to both Inkscape and Gimp. I doubt if Adobe devs will ever listen to you.
For my photography, I could get results in Gimp equal or sometimes better than Photoshop. But now Gimp 3 adds productivity features to make it fast too. And using it with DigiKam and RawTherapee means a top notch workflow too.

We won’t get railways to every door. But the title says Public Transit. So various sized rail vehicles will connect with various sized road vehicles for the last mile. Everything electric and everything autonomous.
Nobody will need to own a car in urban locations. Many places won’t allow access anyway.
We’ll all pay less for ownership. Less per mile transit. Less for goods due to reduced transport costs.
We’ll enjoy our streets as a place to socialise once the danger, noise and parked cars are gone. Multi lane highways will be replaced by parks and cycle routes.
We’ll enjoy our time not wasted sitting in traffic jams.
All this won’t stop the greed merchants peddling their lies and duping the gullible though.

What was a LibreOffice developer doing using Microsoft stuff in the first place?

If you use Microsoft or Meta or any of the usual suspects, and they screw up or get hacked or behave badly, don’t be all surprised and complain. It’s what they do, and they don’t care, and never listen. You know this.

For a step up, a compact camera without interchangeable lenses is rhe first place to look. You get real benefit from an electronic viewfinder EVF. As you get a clear view even in bright sunlight. But it costs more. There are 1" sensors that produce photos of reasonable quality. These keep the price and size down. It’s not necessary to go to the next sensor size up, micro43 or APSC. But that would be the next step. Along with interchangeable lenses. A DSLR doesn’t have any benefit over mirrorless and just adds bulk to make you leave it at home more.

Windows doesn’t have a real choice of desktop environments. So I moved to Linux 15 years ago. I’m not in IT and always use a mouse. Importantly for me, I’ve never needed the CLI, despite people telling me that’s impossible. Plasma lets me tweak it to my needs. I use Kubuntu, yet don’t care about what’s below the desktop environment. Happy to change distros.

I install graphical and visual design apps. And I’ll navigate to the category by mouse. I don’t memorise the names of all my apps. I’m not in IT, and I’m not working with text all the time. I’ll right click the app icon and go ‘Add to favourites’, so I have a highly productive, 1 click access to important apps. I’m interested in usability, am not a beginner and I know my UI and settings well. I can see why people find this tiny green dot useful. It’s OK if you are not into usability. But note that there are many different user types, with different needs at different times. And the flexibility of KDE Plasma makes it a really great desktop environment.

Avoid being rude please. I’ve been patient, and tried to explain in different ways for you. I’m sure you’ll get it when you see it.

Read back to the types if information I’ve been talking about. Real world things people actually need. Things that need to be shared with people who might not use One Note.

Avoid confusing information with text. Avoid forgetting about open standards.