I'm really trying y'all

I'm trying to make it #theyearoflinuxonthedesktop

I just saw something funny and wanted to clip it, annotate it, and share it

Pretty common, right? What I had in mind would take me maybe 20 seconds on my phone

But on Linux...

I screenshot what I need, no problem there, but I'm not going to open Gimp just to throw some arrows and text on a screenshot

So I search. "Annotator" is popular, cool. Oh, it's $10 on appcenter.elementary.io. I don't want to share this clip that bad.

There's also ksnip. I go to install it. What?? It's already installed??? Great!!!

I open it up, open my clip, and everything is going great. I've got arrows pointing. Now time to add some text.

I switch to the text tool, add a text element and start typing, "W..." and ksnip is gone. Crashed. Adios.

I reopen and try a few more times. I try with other text tools. Crash. Crash. Crash. Instantly too, no explanation, nothing.

I go to run ksnip from the CLI to see if there are any messages I can capture when it's crashing. I'm thinking "maybe I need to install some missing fonts or something"

1. ksnip isn't in the path
2. because it's a flatpak
3. I have no idea where flatpaks are installedd. fuck thisV. I give upVI. I'm going to bed

Cheers to 2023, the year of Linux on the desktop!

#TheYearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop #LinuxOnTheDesktop #Linux #troll #joke