boredsquirrel

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boredsquirrel,

That took me long to understand. No if it was effective, you didnt need a good prompt

Any advice for a long-time Linux user, first-time Linux *desktop* user?

I’m a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they’ve always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I’ve made a Mint...

boredsquirrel,
  1. Just shrink windows and install Linux.

Use either BTRFS (no idea if Mint supports that) or LVM with EXT4 or F2FS. F2FS is used in Android, stable, fast, simple, flash optimized. Ext4 is also based.

Dont separate / from /home if you dont use the above setup. If you do, partitions can resize dynamically so no problems here.

Installing multiple OSses is messy, avoid it.

Windows Updates may remove GRUB and eat the partition. If the partition is still there, you could reflash GRUB with dd.

  1. Disk encryption is a single checkbox in every installer I tried. It doesnt use the TPM so it works everywhere, while not as fancy as Android on a Google Pixel.

Absolutely do it.

Most often you only encrypt the / partition and not the boot. And no you dont touch Windows so no issues.

  1. Tons of people use GDrive and Dropbox. It supposedly works.
  2. On a traditional Distro I would leave the system as it is and install everything from Flathub. It is preinstalled and configured on Linux.

Traditional Distros are extremely messy and build up Entropy, i.e. randomness. You just do random shit everywhere and after a few months or years you have issues that nobody can reproduce and you need to reinstall.

That is why I am happily on Fedora Atomic Desktops (Kinoite, KDE). OSTree is heaven.

If you stick to Flatpaks you will not change the system at all, the apps are separated. So it will likely not break at all.

Ironically, while the “immutable” (managed) systems are used with Flatpak a lot, it is the traditional ones that should use it, as they dont have mechanisms like rpm-ostree reset.

So yes, absolutely.

Have a look at my list of recommended apps (which I planned on updating today and a damn browser crash destroyed 2 hours of work…)

  1. Use an atomic system. Use Flatpaks. Change as little crazy stuff as possible (if you are on KDE, lol).

I recommend Librewolf, great project with good usability.

Meanwhile I will some day fix up my arkenfox automation which makes any Firefox version as secure and private.

boredsquirrel,

Didnt see it so I just keep it here? Idk

boredsquirrel,

Yes that is strange.

You want to use its PDF reader?

boredsquirrel,

Yeah for sure, thats the pdf.js also available in Firefox.

Why do you specifically want this in TB?

Firefox Flatpak worked normally via the portal for opening the PDF. I think Thunderbird defaults to sending a file as an attachment to a new empty mail.

boredsquirrel,

So what is the issue? If you want to save PDFs they are not saved? And this is the same when clicking on unsupported documents?

Go to the about:config, its at the bottom of the first settings page.

Enable portals for files and maybe apps.

boredsquirrel,

These messages are damn useless

Distros take care of the kernel, either ship LTS releases or do the backports themselves. Only rolling release people run that kernel.

So this post is literally only useful for the 4 LFS users that now need to recompile their kernels.

boredsquirrel,

Is has no Wayland support, doesnt support the very well packaged Flatpak officially, and it is kinda big.

I prefer MPV now, using Celluloid and tried Haruna.

boredsquirrel,

VLC is literally the savior of Windows

boredsquirrel,

https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2024/debian-kde/2024-05-30_05_KDE-Plasma-appaerence.jpg

Cool stuff.

Yes the degradation from Plasma 5 x11 to Plasma 6 Wayland Graphics tablet options is bad.

Also the stuff where every Desktop does its own thing kinda sucks.

But we will get there.

An alternative would be CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux or RockyLinux, which has the same stability, X11 support aspect.

boredsquirrel,

Yeah I also tried CentOS Stream 9 with KDE Plasma (see a recent post of mine). And:

  • they messed up the systemsettings order completely in 5.27
  • the tiling is completely broken for some reason too

I havent yet seen any actual backports and fixes. The tiling stuff (Meta + arrows) is known and completely broken.

I like Plasma 6 a lot, it is way more stable than 5, but I am on an all intel coreboot Laptop and I dont use special software.

boredsquirrel,

I think they are just referring to the Ubuntu pro ads.

This is not spam. If you have random outdated packages from the universe repo on your system it will tell you that they would ALSO offer support for those if you get Ubuntu pro.

Maybe too often, idk. But Linux Mint will “fix” this by also running these old maybe insecure packages but not even offering security fixes.

People need to step down their weird Linux-entitlement horses, and get that Free Software is not free as in free beer.

boredsquirrel,

Afaik you will get this message because you use Ubuntu LTS. Which ships outdated, “stable” packages.

The solution is not just silencing that message and continuing to use them, but some way to get updates OR security backports for them.

boredsquirrel,

There is literally not a single useful comment here.

You have packages from outside the official main repo, in the universe repo.

You are using a stable Distribution so packages are frozen and need backported security updates.

You dont get them for the optional universe repos, but if you give them a bit of money (or afaik Ubuntu pro is even free for a few devices) then they will also support these 3rd party packages.

It is an optional service, they warn you that you use outdated packages, and offer a solution.

I dont use Ubuntu and Snaps are crap, but this is totally fine.

boredsquirrel,

they should have included the security patches from the get-go

I dont know how Ubuntu does that stuff, but universe is community supported only. It is required for many normal packages, so yes you could say their service is not good enough but hey, its free Software.

If you dont pay a cent you have like nothing to complain

boredsquirrel,

This is what I dont understand too. No, it is for regular packages, not random 3rd party stuff.

Those are made on Launchpad and available as PPAs, originally meant to be the first step, followed by having them approved to Ubuntus repos.

boredsquirrel,

No. You are using a stable Distro. This is how stable distros work.

If you want upstream updates for all packages, use a rolling or semi-rolling release like Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, etc.

boredsquirrel,

I dont know how many packages they share but this seems very unrealistic.

Debian and Ubuntu have different release schedukes and package versions.

boredsquirrel,

Until then

boredsquirrel,

Linux, system:

  • KDE Plasma (Dolphin, Kate, Kfind, Merkuro, shell, Spectacle)
  • Librewolf / hardened Firefox (system app because of user namespaces, which Flatpaks cant create)

Linux, Flatpak:

  • syncthingy
  • thunderbird
  • libreoffice
  • KDE: Okular, Gwenview, maybe soon digiKam
  • Qt: qBittorrent, Keepassxc
  • GNOME/Circle: Celluloid, PDF Arranger, Carburetor, Decoder, G4music, Railway, SimpleScan (or Skanlite), Impression, GIMP
  • GTK: localsend, GPU Screen recorder
  • Electron: Freetube, Signal, Cryptomator, Nextcloud
  • Podman: StirlingPDF

Android:

  • Fossify Gallery, Calendar
  • Material Files
  • Markor
  • Antennapod
  • Florisboard (or maybe Futo, but I dont need the fancy stuff yet)
  • Shelter
  • localsend
  • Obtainium
  • dict.cc
  • Grayjay
  • k9mail
  • soundbound (spotify), seal (ytdl)
  • öffi, kleine Wettervorschau
  • SaveTo…
  • mjpdf
boredsquirrel,

Doesnt work for me lol. But yes, totally.

discuss.kde.org/t/…/1

boredsquirrel,

Yes thats it. To my knowledge “enabling” just linked the service to the active dir, but I suppose not

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