It would be faster to just select every end of line and add spaces and then do the edit & Trim later.

Bottom line is that the functionality doesn't seem to exist in any useful way. Wish it did. I think Ultra Edit, notepad++ visualstudio and mssql mgnt studio must have spoiled me for other editors (in this respect). Even Geany does this (but oh, so janky...)

I have it and use it. It's great (works for most sites). My point is actually the opposite - there are certain sites/services that become very unpleasant to use if you have to log in everytime you open the browser.

The advantage of apps is that for those particular services you don't have to reauthenticate each time you open them (the trade off being insecurity.

Using websites would be great if I could have a separate (isolated) instance per site. That way I could kill browse history for general browsing.

(The absolute worst are the apps that hop out to the browser (especially when they hard code Chrome, which I avoid where possible on Android.))

On the PC (by way of example), edge and chrome have web applications that are handy (think YouTube and YouTube music) but.... they share credentials! I keep a separate login for YT vs YTM (because google completely misunderstood the reason people keep videos separate from music when they killed the excellent Google Play Music). So... When I log into one, flips the default login for the other. Now, if they were separate apps, like on Android, the sessions are separated - as they ought to be!

I will say that Duck Duck Go's App Tracking protection is a fantastic way to tackle the way apps 'phone home' so much, however, since it leverages a full tunnel (yet local) VPN technique, you have to disable it if you want to connect to another VPN service.

(Bottom line - website based services are great, but, for goodness sake, I wish one had the option to persist various sites, but in isolation.)

There are lots of individual applications that do pretty well in and of themselves (darktable, gimp, krita, etc.) they have varying degrees of niceness. But what Adobe can do has no analogue in Linux land (paid or not) - it's the multi-device interoperability. It makes for unparalleled workflow. I am not an advocate your Adobe - I really wish there was someone else that did it, and I believe it is something worth paying for. Figma maybe? (but it's all cloud and was nearly knocked out by Adobe...)

(FWIW, I've never found gimp to be pleasant to use, but that is only my own subjective experience. Others like it and that's a good thing.)

At most, you might be able to get midi mode to work (if you scrounge the internet for experimental and old reverse engineered scripts.) But almost certainly not the core Maschine functionality (ie - the main reason for buying maschine in the first place).

Even if you can get it to work none of it will be supported and you're always at risk of an update rendering things inoperable.

It's worth noting that only the old Native Access installer runs in wine (with coaxing). The newer one does not, and from what I've read, the break points are features that will never be supported in wine.

Wine is clever, but it's always an incomplete game of whackamole. A workaround at best.

The whole thing is truly frustrating.

(your luck may be better than mine of course!)

Curious - what do you prefer wrt other distros? I'm just fascinated by what drives people in their individual directions. (I used to exclusively install Debian on things, but recently revitalized an old laptop by wiping windows and putting on Ubuntu. Have used CentOS too, but the Debian package stuff is just easy for me...)

Peace and quiet. And to see people to need food get food. I really don't need anything myself.

I'll check it out (as soon as I need it).

I find some sites just don't work properly with Firefox. Drives me bonkers.

That's pretty much the point. (ie - stuff I need won't work in wine or won't work at a HW level).

Wine is fun, but are a growing number of features that are not supported and likely never will be. (by way of example - NI Access 2 installer uses UAC calls. Not workable.

It becomes a game of whackamole trying to find workaround after workaround (and a coin toss as to whether or not one actually exists..)

Two main things are Lightroom and Maschine.

I know about Darktable. And lots of others. The photo editing application is the easy part - lots of options. The lightroom secret sauce is fully integrated workflow with mobile and desktop. I am content to pay money for this as it deserves to cost money. However, Adobe does not play nicely with Linux. For this use case, I could likely dual boot (or virtual box).

Music production is a challenge though. Dual booting isn't an option as it's my main use case. Maschine (the HW) doesn't run on Linux. Yes, I know someone a few years ago wrote a partially functional driver for a previous incarnation of the HW, that works in midi mode, but that's not how I use it. Paid good money for it - not keen on burning it.

I even considered running it in a box (assuming can pass through the usb), but as I started to tally up the dependencies, I would come close to having to put it all on the vbox, ending up with a setup that could only be appreciated by the most zealous Rube Goldberg afficionado...

On the software side, I can likely get wrappers to run a lot of it, but it's an ongoing dice roll. The DAW is easy (Reaper). But I have a bunch of stuff I use constantly that I paid for and I don't want the OS to work against me. (And I want to be able to hold the vendors' feet to the feet when things don't work properly - I've had support concerns (for legit bugs) that fell on deaf ears when I said I use Reaper, which was not officially supported by a certain vendor. How much luck would I have with Linux?

Then there's the audio interface. Yes - it'll probably run. But it's certainly not supported.

Unless vendors actually start supporting Linux (flatpaks/snappaks/whatever would be just dandy), running Linux remains an obstacle, not a solution. However, they won't start supporting until user base grows. Chicken. Egg. Ugh.

It's most unfortunate - I definitely try to kick tires on it to see if it's feasible every few years, but I continue to hit a wall.

In the meantime, I, and, I hope others will keep pressure up on vendors whenever possible.

Edit - spent a few hours last night trying to get plugins to work on Linux/reaper. Yabridge. Couldn't get a single one to work. Tried Vital. Linux version crashes - the recommended solution seems to be to run it under the windows version under Yabridge! I haven't even got to trying my more heavily used stuff! I know most, not all (and some stuff that used to run will no more as wine doesn't support some of the new features in Windows), of these things have solutions, but

I sincerely take pleasure in getting things to run in Linux. I really do. But sometimes the effort becomes about trying to get what you need to work to work, rather than actually doing the work you needed to do in the first place!

I will keep trying periodically.

Yup. At least the twitter app (UI) isn't as bad as reddit's. But I'm blocking promoted tweets faster than a game of candy crush. I hope Mastodon takes off - not comfortable with Threads.

Reddit is just unusable - I never really liked Reddit until I found BaconReader. Those days are over. Such is life.

As for lemmy, it needs to mature, but that'll come. It's not bad..!

This is a great comment. If it's dabbling then absolutely, have fun! But it's a real self-administered kick in the nuts to squander serious investment in SW/HW just for bragging rights, cool as they are.

Dual boot is probably the (annoying) answer. Not sure on the efficacy of a windows VM for music production.