I use the Thunderbird email client to set up filters which send email to set folders.

Yeah I don’t mean for free. I think that’s implied by the “happy to pay (reasonably) for it” part of the comment.

This is an excellent idea and very valuable - thanks for doing it 👍

I’ve been thinking about doing exactly this but for the free and open source applications that I know well. Having a hotline/helpdesk would be way faster and easier for newcomers to make use of than reading forum posts scattered all over the internet that usually assume higher technical skill levels, or starting their own posts. I for one would learned way better this way and in many cases would have been happy to pay (reasonably) for it.

If anyone would like to get involved in setting something up let me know.

In case you’re still interested, check out Wordbook

Your welcome :) It does its job perfectly 👌 I can’t remember how to do it now but I think you can even use a keyboard shortcut to use it with any selected text in other programs.

Wordbook.

It downloads everything when you install it and can then be used entirely offline.

I wondered about this. Do you know why https isn’t used by default?

Just ran dist-upgrade and all is well :) Thanks for the tip.

Only a couple of days ago. I switched back and forth to a mirror, did autoclean and autoremove and disabled deb-src in sources.list and everything appears to be fine now but I have no idea why!

I changed to a mirror, ran sudo apt update and had a buggerload of packages with updates. I then switched back to the default which fetched those updates as well, both before and after autoclean and autoremove. Software is now installing successfully/normally… I’m not really any the wiser about what happened though. The only thing I can tell that is different now is I deselected deb-src after reading that it’s not recommended for most users.

I’ve been curious about Guix for a long time and did have a go at installing it as a distro on my new laptop (it didn’t work). Still aspiring to hop to it one day. I think I’ll try using it as a package manager on Debian until then.

That would be a powerful feature and a very user-friendly way of creating what are essentially custom monitor profiles. It has my vote!

Can you adjust separate curves for red, green and blue?

You’re right - I’d forgotten how disorientating it was when I first switched to Linux to have all of these weird and alien file paths. There should be some kind of welcome pack for people switching from windows and mac.

Why am I seeing Permaculture in my feed but when I click through I’m getting Biodynamics? Is this Schrödinger’s .gif?

It was a long time ago now but I distinctly remember having to watch videos to learn how to do things in Photoshop.

IMO Gimp will always get flak about the UI not matching Photoshop, rather than the other way around, for the simple reason that users are always switching in that direction. I haven’t heard of anyone ditching GIMP for Photoshop.

I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.

Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.

I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.

GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.

I would try posting the question. If there’s a community anywhere that can help or point you in the right direction it’s pixls. There are linux graphics app developers on the forum.