I feel like it would be easier to help with the original problems that led to these unusual choices.

Downvoting because the title says “best” and I disagree. Apple products have a bunch of drawbacks, I wouldn’t buy them even if the hardware is strong and efficient.

This won’t protect your .env files though, right?

Right, but my machine is safe at least.

It’s possible. For pnpm package cache you need to attach another volume, and another for globally installed packages.

Keep your secrets:

alias npm="docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node:latest npm"

Not enough, but better than nothing.

You can try dualbooting a linux distro with an android. I expect it works, but you cannot be sure with phones.

For 3D animations, Modo has linux-x86_64 binary. Blender is native also.

I’ve never been into 2D animations.

For compositing, The Foundry Nuke is native also. (If you’ve got the money, or you’re willing to buy it from seejeepeers)

For video editing, most youtubers use DaVinci Resolve.

Inkscape is slow as it’s using SVG for its backend and not as polished as an illustrator but it is feature-rich. Adwaita icons are designed in inkscape. It’s not a big sacrifice.

I learned photoshop when It was the CS4 version. I know it’s got a lot of AI features since then. Luckily, I left it before I could get used to them, so now I can use gimp. And btw, check gimp’s new release candidate. It’s a huge step forward. Everyone could give them their adobe cc subscription fees and we could see how they compete after that.

Why do you use affinity if you have adobe?

May I ask what’s your job? I’m a web developer completely fine on Linux. I used windows for a long time, I tried mac for some month. Linux is the best.

figma

There’s not much middleman if you buy an album from small bands like Pokolgép directly.

I’m running Arch for a very long time. I agree this is not a distro for general audience. I disagree, however, that it is not stable. When I’m doing work I don’t update my system. I enjoy my stable configuration and when I have time, I do update, I curiously watch which amazing foss software had an update. And I try them. I check my new firefox. I check gimp’s new features. etc… or if I have to do something I easily fix it, like in no time because I know my OS. Then I enjoy my stable system again.

Do you want to know what’s unstable? When I had my new AMD GPU that I built my own kernel for, because the driver wasn’t in mainline. And it randomly crashed the system. That’s unstable.

Or when I installed my 3rd DE in ubuntu and apt couldn’t deal with it, it somehow removed X.org. And I couldn’t fix it. That’s also something I don’t want. Arch updates are much better than this.

They will probably get to there. It’s just not that important for the developers rn. They are working on a pacman rust rewrite and hopefully we can see more contributions to the project. I already considered contributing but C deterred me.

You can see the milestones here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/alpm/alpm/-/milestones

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Was it even a thing? I remember I had to choose MBR for legacy BOOT, GPT for UEFI.

Buy good hardware next time

I would like to use my projects in work, I can’t force them to open everything, because I would have to find something else.

There’s a similar effort to have a figma alternative. It’s called penpot. But when I tried to self-host it, first it’s inconvenient, second it missed features, that was there in their official site. I wish it good luck, but Ardour is pretty good already.

What you really need is freedom. Not from AI but from corporations.

When the marketing went too far that it brought AI the wrong meaning.

The problem is not the tool. It’s the inability to use the tool without a third party provider.