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boredsquirrel OP ,

Then report it as a bug

boredsquirrel OP ,

This is also about the App ID, actually mainly. So they keep K9 so that users can get a popup "export your settings, uninstall and install TB Android". As Android only allows updates with the same app ID and developer key.

boredsquirrel OP ,

No I think you will need to reinstall. But as you can export your settings this is not a very big deal.

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases/latest

Interesting, they renamed their org from thundernest to thunderbird. Makes more sense tbh.

I changes the URL to this in Obtainium and removed the old one. It seems they are still not changing the App ID as updates worked normally, but that version should get the redesign soon.

boredsquirrel OP ,

IPC? I mean it can export and import settings, sending that data via the share portal and opening it for import (autodetecting the extension) is really possible.

Not that I know how to write a single line of Android app code.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Why AAC and not opus for Audio? AAC takes away a ton of content, may not be relevant for these specific movies, but very relevant for music.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Yes I do. Quality level 50 is for sure too low, but AV1 had 80MB, h264 had 120MB, quite nice.

I will try further and see what is best. Using AV1, opus and mkv

boredsquirrel ,

The only correct answer is udisksctl

This is what KDE Dolphin also uses. It can mount, unlock LUKS and more.

Mounts will be in /run/media/user

boredsquirrel ,

Really great. But I would love that the "edit rounded corners" would not apply to the workspace number circle and to the switches, as it makes no sense.

boredsquirrel ,

No interface has squares everywhere. I think this type of switch is VERY established.

gui switch

https://www.iconfinder.com/search?q=switch

boredsquirrel ,

Interesting!

I personally think slightly rounded and normal round is the best. But the default is fine for me.

I think you are doing really great work! Even though I would have used KDE as design reference but we all are different.

boredsquirrel ,

I think CentOS Stream, Debian or a tweaked Ubuntu LTS are good for stability and all free also as in freedom (after replacing snap with flatpak on Ubuntu).

OpenSUSE slowroll is a good model for better tested but not randomly held back packages.

Fedora has the older stable release, currently 39. It is more stable than the current 40.

As a workstation Desktop I can recommend KDE Plasma, but it is not bugfree. Plasma 5 has bugs that will not be fixed, Plasma 6 has those fixed but random other bugs and random missing features.

GNOME is unusable in many parts for me personally, but very very likely the most stable but also modern Desktop.

COSMIC will be pretty awesome. It doesnt really have bugs for me, but simply a ton of missing things. But the way they build the project, how well everything works and implements all sorts of "we have this new shiny thing" from various DEs like KDE Plasma, is really nice.

But that will take at least a year to be really finished.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I have no idea as all video editors are too complicated for me and I didnt ever find the time to learn them... even though I should. And then I will use KDENlive

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! ( i.imgur.com )

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

boredsquirrel ,

We have a crazy old laptop that we used to watch movies on when I was a child. That now also runs Linux Mint really well.

I think a slim Fedora KDE would also be very fine, as Cinnamon is really quite painful to use. But they have a really nice set of user friendly minimal apps.

Nothing I would recommend to people switching from other OSes though, as its just too minimal and especially Nemo is awful. Like, no link support??

boredsquirrel ,

Or just install with cargo, have it run unrestricted and still work everywhere. I dont think rust apps need to be flatpakked

boredsquirrel ,

Distrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.

boredsquirrel ,

It is a separate Distro. I used it for running VLC already and for sure it works, but it isnt really a good solution.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

boredsquirrel ,

Note that what you will experience is just the Desktop, as the details of the distributions are more "which one has less errors over time and not outdated or unstable packages"?

boredsquirrel ,

Linux is easier to install than Windows nowadays.

This.

Go with Mint or OpenSUSE or Ubuntu

Not this. Mint maybe, even though their Desktop looks dated and is not Wayland ready. But OpenSUSE is strange (what to use, Leap? Good luck with outdated packages; Tumbleweed? Well you are now rolling) and Ubuntu is basically dead.

boredsquirrel ,

I really like System76s work so even though never used PopOS it is very likely fine.

But Zorin, hell no. It is a randomly patched outdated GNOME and their installer is Buggy.

Just use Fedora with Dash to panel and you have a better experience.

boredsquirrel ,

On Windows, Rufus is better. On Linux, use Impression Flatpak, or the KDE IsoWriter, or FedoraMediaWriter, all better than BalenaEtcher.

boredsquirrel ,

The installer is actually pretty easy, even though a bit strange in some parts, really stable.

Like, better than Calamares in my eyes.

But yes, on Fedora you basically need

flatpak remote-delete -y fedora
flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

And on NVIDIA good luck, I would honestly just use uBlue there.

boredsquirrel ,

just use Debian.

If you only get your stuff from homebrew, Distrobox of Flatpak, yes.

Debian has severely outdated packages, like 2 years old on Bookworm. I would never recommend anyone to run outdated software.

Not every software vendor publishes LTS releases. Firefox, Thunderbird all fine. But the rest is randomly frozen, and this will result in unfixed errors for years.

boredsquirrel ,

Its an electron app and has ads. But for sure it works.

Fedora media writer also has only a few buttons and has mac and windows versions too.

boredsquirrel ,

Just download the iso from your browser? Strange bug though.

boredsquirrel ,

It is important that you get fixes to packages that occured in the last like 2 years.

It is generally not really nice to run outdated software, even though it works kinda well.

If you use Debian you really need to use Flatpaks, and Mozillas PPA for regular Firefox. Then yes, probably a good OS.

I started on MX Linux because some strange Distrowatch bump. My IT support told me my Nextcloud version was outdated, and I didnt know Flatpak back then.

boredsquirrel ,

Dont know if I understood that sentence.

Testing packages is fine. But randomly stopping updates from upstream maintainers makes no sense. If you develop the software you can freeze packages. Or if upstream has dedicated LTS/ESR variants. But not if you dont.

boredsquirrel ,

I mean software devs release software when it is ready. Fedora also is semi-rolling and especially the older release has some form of held back packages.

But knowing "my distro ships packages with some random frozen number and these issues will simply not be fixed in a long time" is not really helpful.

Also, people dont know this from anywhere. Android, macOS, Windows all have separated software that is officially maintained and uses the latest stable version. Only Linux distros use this strange packaging form.

So I think using Flatpaks is way better, as they are often officially maintained. A lot of them are not, but they manage the separation from the system very well, so you actually run the latest versions without any chance to break the system.

boredsquirrel ,

Browsers are just bundles of lots of internetfacing software. Not the only one by far, but for sure a big part.

boredsquirrel ,

Only Appimages are that messy, and Flatpaks are way better. Not managing software at all is pretty horrible.

I think macOS has a store though, but not much software is there. Same as on Windows.

boredsquirrel ,

https://vscodium.com/

boredsquirrel ,

No...

Ubuntu is not very cool but they are not Windows.

boredsquirrel ,

I say KDE Plasmas Dolphin is the best File manager :D

boredsquirrel ,

You can try the GIMP beta Flatpak.

See instructions how to do this in my repo

After adding the repo, do flatpak install --user gimp and use the gimp-beta version.

They add tons of stuff to it like color profiles and nondestructive filters.

boredsquirrel ,

Linux mint is pretty outdated and restricting. They using GTK while fighting GNOME is not a nice place to be.

Also their extension store looks like "nobody uses Linux" unlike the KDE Plasma extensions.

Fedora is not user friendly out of the box due to their legal issues and their strange Fedora Flatpaks. I recommend uBlue instead, even though somehow they removed instructions to install the main variants and only advertize Bluefin/Aurora and Bazzite.

boredsquirrel ,

There is a Flatpak for Android Studio and I had it installed. It likely works very well.

boredsquirrel ,

Davinci doesnt just work. They are proprietary so packaging as a flatpak is near impossible, which makes bundling drivers difficult.

They require proprietary NVIDIA drivers afaik, but people also run it on AMD GPUs. No idea of Intel GPUs.

boredsquirrel ,

I started using Linux 2 years ago or something. Linux Mint, Kubuntu, MX Linux (wtf Distrowatch), Manjaro, KDE Neon, Fedora KDE...

broke all. On Fedora Kinoite since then, switched to uBlue Kinoite, no complaints.

Currently using secureblue but many things I disagree with, planning a fork.

boredsquirrel ,

Fedora has 2 versions supported, the current release and the old release. It is pretty modern in packages, but this is normally not a problem at all.

I never used the old release but that would give more stability. On the atomic variants this means though that you dont get automatic updates, as using latest will auto update when upstream sets the new version as latest.

boredsquirrel ,

No. This button is completely uninformative and enables only proprietary but free stuff like Chrome, Jetbrains, Steam and NVidia drivers.

It does not

  • enable flathub
  • enable rpmfusion

I use Fedora and I know what I am talking about. The KDE people are currently adding the same "add external repos" button to the Plasma welcome screen, at least something.

But you still have

  • "flatpak apps" but from the wrong source and sometimes broken (just imagine how confusing this is for new users. Having "the flatpak alternative" but its also wrong.)
  • no flathub
  • libavcodec etc. that interfere with ffmpeg
  • no nvidia drivers
boredsquirrel ,

Oh nice, didnt know that.

I am not sure how well that works, as NVIDIA drivers need a karg and a blocklist of nouveau.

ffmpeg needs to be installed mit --allowerasing

While yes for sure flathub apps have support, you still have a preinstalled Firefox and a flatpak remote that both dont have the nonfree stuff. This is just very confusing.

But btw Firefox RPM has support for user namespace sandboxes, allowing process isolation. So just using the official Flatpak is not a real solution.

boredsquirrel ,

Yes but again, Flathub Firefox has no process isolation with user namespaces. Something not easy to understand, but it simply removes a big security layer (between browser and processes, and between processes). It also adds the security layer between browser and OS, so not that easy.

Have a look at bubblejail, that is far away from plug and play poorly. But it allows to sandbox the browser like flatpak, but allow user namespace creation (a syscall) to also isolate processes.

Ublue is Fedora Atomic without legal restrictions or strange decisions.

But they also deleted their old website, so the only easily installable versions are Bluefin/Aurora (GNOME/KDE) and Bazzite. Which are also opinionated but I think in a good way.

boredsquirrel ,

Btw for running Davinci resolve try this project

It is not exactly tested but allows to pack the software into a container, making sure it works forever if it works.

boredsquirrel OP ,

This means there are C functions that are documented and used, but insecure.

In Rust there is simply an enforcement of certain conventions, which will make code cleaner and prevent a whole class of errors.

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