If it doesn’t have to be vector, you may check out Krita. It is very Photoshop-like.

Afaik Inkscape has quite limited use for pressure sensitivity (I found one tool in the app that uses it, and it wasn’t really for me). As long as the device can be used as a pointer it will work at least as one.

Even though freehand strokes seem intuitive, it is often hard to optimize them. If you want clean and as simple paths as possible, just use bezier curves and node tool. This is how I usually do it.

As far as other free(mium) software goes I recall that Apple has its own program that used to go under name Vectornator. It should be called Linearity Curve now. Maybe also chceck Affinity. Those may have better use for pressure.

If you want something for notetaking, look into Xournal++ and Rnote. Xournal++ produces more optimized strokes, while Rnote is newer and has a bit different approach.

Same here.

ly is a TUI greeter

Personally, I use FreeCAD. I kinda like the unintuitivness a bit. You have to watch a few tutorials and read the wiki or manual, and getting into the whole workbench stuff and what can be used where thing. But in the end you are less likely to mess up so badly as two of my classmates on a 3D printing related subject once did. They extruded literal side planes only and used poorly made sketch with no calibration or constraints whatsoever. They also used wrong tab in Fusion for that, so they wasted like 4 hours, because the software had no reason to warn them and they had no reason to look for answers. In FreeCAD, they wouldn’t even get past creation of the sketch. I didn’t when I tried it out for the first time. : )

Also, I find some UI elements in FreeCAD to be better than in Fusion. The only way that I could find to have some variables was to open a dialog window that I can’t just deselect and then come back when needed. In FreeCAD I can either use Spreadsheet or VarSet.

And the best thing was performance. My laptop was really struggling to run Fusion even in a window that was barely 720p. FreeCAD has no issue runnin on 4k external screen even though I only have integrated Intel GPU.

For me personally, FreeCAD is the winner. But feel free to use whatever you like. There’s even a project that aims to run Fusion on Linux. You can check that if you prefer that. Although a friend of mine had some trouble getting it to work 100%.

Works, but it definitely is not a solution for everyone. There are people who live in areas where it is too far to ride on a bike (and slow) and using public transport takes 2-3 times longer than by car. Especially some areas near cities.

2016 Macbook Pro btw

Also, in all honesty, not having bios access or well documented UEFI settings is bigger pain. Searching how to disable autoboot on lid opening was fun.

I was lucky enough to have a chip that’s compayible with brcfmac one. So on vanilla Arch it works out of the box. On some distros, they load a different module, that does not work with my chip, so I had to fix that way back when using Enedavour OS.