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Be fair though, "saving from a GUI app" is not exactly Linux's strong point either.
Click "save"; wonder which badly written save dialog this app is going to use; is it the one with the save button at the top? Or the bottom? Will it actually appear, or will it pop up below the window for Reasons, making you think the dammed thing has crashed? Maybe it's one with a list of favourite locations in the left maybe it's not... Maybe they're actually my favourite locations, or maybe it's an entirely different set ofnthe developer's. If I'm lucky, there's a way to navigate to my home directory without going all the eay to the root and working up from there, more than likely not...
Best of all, it's one of those Save dialogues that thinks it's smart tomenumerate the entire goddamned filesystem, network mounts and all, before it will respond to any input at all, leading to the window manager eventually fretting that maybe the application has crashed... Or perhaps it's one of those ones related to Dolphin that thinks it understands WebDAV mounts better than davfs, except that it actually doesn't and you end up saving to a temporary directory just so you can move the file where you actually wanted it from the commandline...
aaaaaargh
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on all my machines and have been a Unix user since NetBSD 0.8 (33 years, fml...) But clicking "save" or "open" is one of those things that has me shaking my head thinking "how can it STILL be this bad" every time.
Each application is using the save dialog from whatever graphics API it was made in. GTK, qt, some tK ones are still kicking around...