The issue is not the lack of good tools on Linux, just with the ones shipped with the major distros and DEs.
Quality and simple tools do exist if you look for them:
- Image viewer: feh
- Screen capture: scrot
- Dropbox: Syncthing
- Converters: Pandoc, ImageMagick
- PDF viewer: zathura
- Media player: mpv
etc.
Granted, some of them are CLI only (though they might have GUI wrappers), but desktop users with productivity as the main goal should learn to use and not fear the terminal, instead of settling for whatever their popular brand of distro decided to package for them.
I've had problems with scrot and drawing selections, so I've been using maim for a while, otherwise: yes, exactly my kit - but for IM's convert I have to search for the syntax every damn time, it really sucks.
Quality and simple tools do exist if you look for them:
- Image viewer: feh
- Screen capture: scrot
- Dropbox: Syncthing
- Converters: Pandoc, ImageMagick
- PDF viewer: zathura
- Media player: mpv
etc.
Granted, some of them are CLI only (though they might have GUI wrappers), but desktop users with productivity as the main goal should learn to use and not fear the terminal, instead of settling for whatever their popular brand of distro decided to package for them.