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As with everything else, it depends on who you are and what you do. Email, typesetting, remote shells are all well within the bounds of what workflows work great out of the box.

Typesetting? the linux-centric FOSS world has failed to produce a serious type-setting application for going on 30 years now, what's the offering here?

Just troff and TeX

Johannes Gutenberg produced the primary, and, by far, the most serious, application for type setting 575 years ago, long before the era of the Linux desktop. It's called The Book. Read one some time, and maybe you'll learn what a comma is for.

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