New blog post: "Linux on the desktop as a web developer" https://nolanlawson.com/2020/05/10/linux-on-the-desktop-as-a-web-developer/

A lot of web developers can't imagine life without a Mac, so I decided to write up my Ubuntu experiences. Hopefully it's interesting!

Linux on the desktop as a web developer

Read the Tea Leaves

@nolan If you're looking for a replacement for macOS' Preview try the new "GNOME Sushi" app. It's available from 20.04 LTS onward and supposedly modeled after Preview 🙂

Thank you for the blog article!

@moritzheiber Cool, I will try it! :)
@nolan And for image optimizations I usually refer people to either https://github.com/siiptuo/pio or https://github.com/imager-io/imager (I have a Rust fetish, go figure 🙃)
siiptuo/pio

Optimize images while maintaining the same perceived quality - siiptuo/pio

@moritzheiber
I was going to suggest Flameshot, if GNOME Sushi doesn't work out
@nolan

@nolan I enjoyed this piece. If you are planning to update to Ubuntu 20.04, you might consider Pop!_OS.

Ubuntu's snaps update automatically which led me to Pop!_OS. It's basically a rebadged Ubuntu with a more refined set of keyboard shortcuts and better power management.

Make sure your boot partition is 1MB if you decide to try it.

Thanks for this writeup - I've been a split Mac laptop/Windows desktop user for years and I'm increasingly finding myself unenthused about the direction of the Mac and its hardware, so this is a jump I've been thinking about making - either with an XPS 13, or possibly something like the new System76 Lemur Pro. I do a lot of .NET stuff, but mostly on Core, so not being on Windows isn't a big deal per se. @nolan
@edmistond Yeah the hardware was kind of the thing that drove me to take the plunge. At the time I bought the XPS, the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro was $1k more expensive and had the last year's Intel processor. 😞
@nolan Yeah... I like Apple’s hardware, but other brands are getting good enough now that it’s getting harder for me to justify the price premium, plus my dev workflow for my own projects these days is very Docker-centric and that’s always been a bit of an afterthought on the Mac, unfortunately.
@edmistond @nolan not so much "an afterthought" as "something that requires a bit if a kludge on anything that isn't Linux", which makes sense as it depends on functionality in the Linux kernel. But yeah, docker on Mac is not perfect.
@doenietzomoeilijk @nolan True - I’ve heard it’s a much better experience with WSL2 on Windows, but I’m not on the insider builds so I couldn’t say; my home Windows machine mostly gets used for gaming.

@nolan

Other apps like ImageOptim also have no Linux version.

Check out https://trimage.org/ it’s a decent alternative with a very similar user experience.

Trimage (lossless) image compressor

@nolan macOS's `sed` haunts me every day