These days the things that really differentiate distros are: installer, default desktop environment, packaging, packages.

I switched to Linux exclusively 2 years ago and I gotta say it’s been pretty awesome. Pretty much everything works without fucking around.

I changed to Linux because it’s better. Windows sucks ass.

This is why I’ve never liked the idea of flatpak, it really seems like the Windows way of doing things. It honestly still kind of surprises me that Linux people really wanted to download random binaries from non-trusted distributors that contain a copy of every library that software needs to run. wedontdothathere.jpg

I looked into it and you’re right. I could probably save 7G by reencoding all my music and it sounds better. I’d have to rewrite a bunch of scripts :)

“Downsizing” an mp3 is what we call transcoding, and it’s bad. An mp3 (or the better ogg vorbis) works (basically) by discarding parts of the audio that you won’t hear. Doing that will discard parts of the mp3 that already has a bunch of parts discarded and this makes it sound bad.

I do something like what you’re looking for, but it’s all through a bunch of custom scripts and crap that I made. I buy flac, encode that to ogg (which sounds better than mp3s at lower bitrates), those oggs get synced to my phone, then later I organize those oggs to my collection.

I think you’ll have to either accept these large mp3s or start a lossless collection.

I actually just switched from a laptop with 4G of RAM this year. It had a spinny drive so it was a little slow, but I was really only using it to watch videos over the network. This was all very snappy once it booted. Opening Firefox was pretty painful and would cause swapping though.

Cinnamon is a super simple DE for simple people. I don’t mean this as an insult, some people just never even think to customize their computer and are scared by settings and options. Just use KDE if it has features you like, you clearly sound like you’re up for the change.

Continue to not give it, what do you mean?

If you can’t remember what to reinstall, was it really that important? Packages are so quick and easy to install that I just install them the first time I try to use them and find them missing.

Here’s an edited list of what I exclude from my full system backup on my debian machine:

        <Exclude>
            <Item>/.Trash-*/</Item>
            <Item>/.recycle/</Item>
            <Item>/*.pyc</Item>
            <Item>/var/cache/apt/archives</Item>
            <Item>/tmp/</Item>
            <Item>/proc/</Item>
            <Item>/dev/</Item>
            <Item>/sys/</Item>
            <Item>/run/</Item>
            <Item>*/RecentDocuments/</Item>
            <Item>*/.cache/</Item>
            <Item>*/Trash/</Item>
            <Item>*/recentfolders/</Item>
            <Item>*/pictureCache/</Item>
            <Item>*/Crash Reports/</Item>
            <Item>*/GLCache/</Item>
            <Item>*/cache/</Item>
            <Item>*/tmp/</Item>
            <Item>/var/log/</Item>
            <Item>*/.xsession-errors</Item>
            <Item>*.swp</Item>
            <Item>/var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.local/share/baloo/</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore-backups/</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.mozilla/firefox/*/crashes/</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.mozilla/firefox/*/datareporting/</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.local/share/Steam</Item>
            <Item>*/.thumbnails/</Item>
            <Item>*/.cache/</Item>
            <Item>*/lost+found/</Item>
            <Item>/mnt/</Item>
            <Item>/*.bash_history</Item>
            <Item>/opt/firefox</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.local/share/klipper/history*.lst</Item>
            <Item>*/steam.pipe</Item>
            <Item>*/recently-used.xbel</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.mozilla/firefox/*/storage/</Item>
            <Item>/home/jt/.local/share/kpeoplevcard</Item>
        </Exclude>

I’m not sure, but those 3 features sound very basic and easy to implement. Sounds like a simple tasks app to me unless there’s more advanced behavior I’m not aware of. I’ve been cranking out pyqt projects lately and got decent at doing it pretty fast, I’m between projects at the moment :)

DIY!

I’ll write one for you when I’m bored if you can give me an example json file.

Surely people will flock to communism when we show them we don’t know what a meme is.

A refurb!

Cool video, I like this guy’s style; he really keeps it moving.

Modern KDE isn’t bad on resource usage either. You just want the old school look, but you’re not actually on obsolete hardware :)

You don’t need Trinity for that, you can theme up KDE Plasma 6 to look and feel old school too.

Load up their software on prison computers, force former employees to use it daily.

Looks like it doesn’t: https://wiki.actiona.tools/doku.php?id=en%3Ax11notdetected&s[]=wayland

I’m actually looking for something like this too because Autokey and pyautogui (and antimicrox on another machine) is the only software keeping me on X.

It’s clickbait, the title implies that something wrong happened in this situation when no such thing occurred.