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My father for example needs to digitally sign PDFs. And I mean properly, so that they becomes unchangable.
I wouldn't say that this is a techy usecase, it is a rather frequent need for any adult in my country.
On windows it is so easy to set up while on Linux there is no solution at all.
So yeah, just browsing sadly wouldn't cut it.