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.
Financially you got ahead on the bike, but do you think the insurance claim, emotional toll, time without a bike, etc. was worth the improvement for the new bike? It seems easy for someone who has never been a victim of theft to just look at the numbers and assume that person is better off. How do you feel about your bike situation?
Never forget that no matter the distro (well most of them) you can install whatever desktop environment you want. That said, if you want to dip your toes in first time, I'd go with Mint. Its debian based, so most stackoverflow solutions will already have the apt install command you need for you. It has a variety of DE options out of the box on their website too.
Also, KDE and Gnome have changed a lot over the last 5 years. Id give each of them another shot.
Youve reminded me that deck and tasks actually integrate with one another. If you have a deck card assigned to you, it shows up in a special feed in tasks as well. I think its a little clunky but might be a feature of interest. I just opted for all tasks, since my nextcloud is single user.
I actually started with deck and then moved to tasks because I likes the simplicity of a binary "done/not done" as apposed to moving cards across boards (which I used todo/doing/done). Theres a couple features that I use on a given task, like dates, descriptions, and subtasks, but thats it. I suspect that if deck was insufficient for you, thats tasks isnt the right solution either.
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.
This is the first time I'm hearing of Zorin OS. What's so unique about it? It seems pretty standard based on the release features, and that upstream is just Ubuntu LTS. Does anyone use Zorin OS?
I've never heard of Logseq. But I use an obsidian alternative called trilium. I'll give logseq a shot.
I will say, despite how old and outdated calibre looks, it's an absolute beast and contains every feature you would need. I use it to tag all my pdfs with the correct book information (which calibre with find for you) and use it to export my books into a specific folder hierarchy for easy browsing using KOReader on my Kobo e-reader (which runs on linux!)
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I always reference the vendors list from keyboard builder's digest.