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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I like your take, but if your title had been “GUIs are integral for linux adoption and devs should prioritize it more often” it might have gone over better.

    Ffmpeg is one tool that I love and want to recommend to other users to do simple and efficient video file conversions/cropping/trimming. But the lack of a GUI doesnt make it easy. Luckily I have found GUI wrappers on windows and linux, but without those I would absolutely not recommend it. Youtube dl is another example of this. Im glad there are other open source projects providing GUI wrappers for these scenarios.







  • I installed nextcloud at first because I was looking for a basic forms app. Not something very complex, just needed something simple. The best I found was Nextcloud Forms. So I ended up driving a nail not with a hammer, but a battering ram. But I knew that I might find other uses later.

    Since then, I’ve discovered and used many apps.

    • Files lets me easily share documents with others with a link.
    • I started storing recipes in Cookbook, instead of links in a file.
    • I started storing bookmarks across all my devices in Bookmarks and floccus.
    • I got into podcasts by subscribing to RSS feeds with News.
    • I started doing my todo lists digitally with Tasks. This one in particular has very much changed my daytoday along with the android app tasks from tasks.org.