Arch on my home server, Zorin on my laptop

Productivity in general is the only reason to still use Windows. Office is a big one (though great alternatives like LO and OnlyOffice exist), but also Adobe products, pro audio software, etc.

I really wish the WSL extension wasn’t locked behind VS Code. My workflow is heavily reliant on it which locks me into the proprietary IDE.

Yep, you can download their “Desktop Editors”

Maybe apps will finally feel free to bundle LAME instead of forcing you to download it externally!

Yeah, I made the mistake of running Hyprland on a fresh arch install and was super confused at the lack of terminal 😅

100% in the same boat. WSL and VSCode is basically a requirement for me, and codium can’t do the WSL linking.

Just want to shout out to reviewbrah for giving us this absolute gem of a phrase

Creating a driver requires a deep understanding of some pretty low-level pieces of Linux. If you’re new to Linux, you should probably start with some “new to Linux” tutorials and get an understanding of some basic command line usage. Work your way up to being able to follow a guide on compiling the Linux kernel (without any of your own modifications). After that, you can seek out guides on creating a driver.

As a second note, fingerprint drivers are categorically difficult to work with, so this would really be jumping in on the deepest of deep ends. You can do it! But it will take a LOT of self-education.

Unfortunately, I think you’re unlikely to find anything besides the ones made by the big companies: Google, Apple, Samsung, and Garmin are the ones I know. They each have agreements with the banks and credit card companies to handle the secure exchange of data required for the touch payment system. In fact, there are still some issues resulting from a lack of cooperation (such as Citi Bank not working with Garmin Pay because they can’t be bothered to set up the relationship). I imagine an open source software would be unable to get the banks to pay attention to them to establish a partnership, or would otherwise be declined because the financial institutions wouldn’t trust them.

You maybe know this but GitAhead was discontinued, and the maintained fork is called Gittyup: https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup

Open source is a definite plus, but tbh not a requirement for me. Actively maintained, free, Windows and Linux, and simple. Oh, and it has to have a dark theme 😄

Fork is only “free” in that the evaluation period is indefinite. This is generous and clicking through the nag isn’t a huge deal, but I develop on both Linux and Windows and I need a client that supports both.

Unfortunately, GitLens is by GitKraken. Seems like they might not restrict it for private repos, though, I’ll check it out.

Bookmarking this. I have such high hopes for this! I recently went searching for my new git GUI, looking for something free, cross-platform, and simple. Basically what I found is the only one I like is GitKraken, which is not free (I have private projects, which GitKraken paywalls).

If this ends up anything like how these screenshots look, this will be my new client! Do you have a Patreon or other donation mechanism?

Depends on your distro but yes, there are Microsoft TTF fonts you can install.

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/how-to-install-microsoft-fonts-on-linux-for-better-collaboration/

It is 100% the support. Corporations pay big money to have experts on call to fix things fast when they break, and there’s basically no other player for that kind of model in the Linux space.