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The whole “Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware” always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming “this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption”.
The whole “Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware” always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming “this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption”.
I don’t find it at all annoying to keep NewPipe up to date.
I think you may need to take a look at Obtainium.
You can get e.g. pylance to work if you trick it:
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1640
So, at least in that instance, it’s just Microsoft being a little petty.
The problem with that is the power consumption. It adds up.
VS Code is mostly open source though, with an independent build being circulated under the name “VS Codium”. Some proprietary Microsoft extensions will however refuse to run on it out of spite though.
The proprietary version of Inkscape would be Adobe Illustrator, I guess.
Never used it though.
You can definitely mount a windows share on a linux machine. I was doing it at my last job, because it allows you to do anything on it transparently as if its part of the local filesystem.
Here instructions from the Ubuntu wiki, most things should carry over to most other distros.
I am… Confused about your request. Why can’t you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.