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Ha ha. So funny... what's 'compile'?

I use Nextcloud for this. It has a sync app for the phone and PC. So photos, notes, documents, calendar and contacts. All immediately backed up and secure. It's all available everywhere. And can be shared. Such as a gallery. I use a free hosted Nextcloud so no IT needed. And it's cheap to up the storage amount.

Having a deadline for the end of combustion engines is intended to push big car business to put more effort into transitioning. If they drag their feet they will be left behind.

I too am very cautious of getting stuck with Linux. I try to be sure I'm not doing things the hard way. I have found easy distros and easy ways to do most things in Linux despite many people suggesting I do it the IT pro way that they do. Usually because they haven't investigated easy ways for non IT users. They mean well, but don't know about usability or if there us an easy way.

Sadly, big business, techies without imagination and community FOSS without enough capacity are the ones that control what is available. Nothing will suddenly change. Usability is way down the priority list.

That's not necessarily so. There are all sorts of legacy reasons people give for making poor software. From lazy monopolies to programmers with little understanding of usability. To people without the big picture. It will change.

A GUI with good usability can let you repeat commands exactly if required. They use last used values as default. If people in needed that often we'd see more of it in GUI apps. There is often more useful functionality that get prioritised though.

I thought command line users like typing things. I avoid typing where possible, and dont use the command line on Linux.

Newer cobbled roads might be to make cars drive slower.

I get more bike maintenance issues if my route to work has a lot of cobbled roads. I end up taking longer routes to avoid the cobbles. There are not enough dedicated cycle paths.

In Gimp it was the enhancement to the command search. It needs to find a command when you type a slash. Before it would only execute the command. Now it tells you where it is. So you don't need to search every time. In Inkscape there have been several. Most recently it was to reduce the width of the Text panel by moving some elements. As the Text panel is very wide. A full overhaul is due soon.

I've had my feature requests added to both Inkscape and Gimp. I doubt if Adobe devs will ever listen to you.
For my photography, I could get results in Gimp equal or sometimes better than Photoshop. But now Gimp 3 adds productivity features to make it fast too. And using it with DigiKam and RawTherapee means a top notch workflow too.