Leon

Simplicity for users and support staff.

I don’t think that the average user cares for customisation far beyond wallpaper, and perhaps theme. Note I’m not saying average Linux user, I mean average person using a device. Think your aunt who can’t plug in the printer. Faced with too many options people shut down.

If you have a distro and need to offer support for it, it also helps if you can write guides and instructions for a single type of scenario. With Windows you can say “right click the start menu, click device manager…” etc, but that’s not quite as easy on Linux. You can always direct people to the terminal, but again, the average user is likely to balk at the idea.

Choosing a dedicated DE means you have less to maintain, and less to support, and can focus your efforts elsewhere.

I bought a Flint 2 last year. I’m very happy with it.

I love this, because I feel the complete opposite in some regards. I love the simplicity of GNOME. There are some weird UI decisions; I much prefer to have the dock available on the desktop than to use the application switcher every time, but that’s about it. GNOME is very thematically consistent, it’s simple, and it works smoothly. It has enough customisation where the sensible defaults fall short, at least for me, but theme-wise I really like Adwaita the way it is.

I use KDE on my laptop though, and I enjoy the tinkering with it. Feel like it’s fairly unstable though, Plasma just crashes at times when you tinker with it (though so far it’s never happened in normal usage). Design-wise it feels much too cluttered, but there’s a lot of options to play with to make things at least almost the way I’d like it.

We’re spoiled for choice, and that’s awesome. There’s something for everyone.

That’s just part of learning sometimes.

I know. It’s how what China and the Soviets had wasn’t communism. A relatively small group of people climb up top and ruin everything, as they always have.

I’d recommend a HDD enclosure with a virtual drive emulator. I personally use this one which I’ve had for about a decade at this point. Lovely device. At some point I think I’ll pop an SSD in it instead, mostly just for durability purposes.

But you know that capitalism is so good because the free market ensures that there’s so much variety and choice in quality and innovation.

This is news to me! Thanks for enlightening me!

It also doesn’t function without JavaScript. If you’re security or privacy conscious chances are not zero that you have JS disabled, in which case this presents a roadblock.

On the flip side of things, if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.

No hate on Anubis. Quite the opposite, really. It just sucks that we need it.

I appreciate verbosity. It’s much nicer than the opposite.

Oh they update a lot. The clients have gotten really snappy, which is nice because browsing photos felt a bit cumbersome before. There’s now automatic albums and facial recognition, if you opt in to that. Was going to say that there’s no editing tool but there is. It’s quite basic though, three tabs, crop, transform (rotate, flip, resize), and colours (brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur for some reason lmao).

There’s also a bunch of sharing features. You could share images or albums directly, or even create embeds for if you have a portfolio website. I pretty much only use it as a backup service though.

I guess they fill different niches. I use Ente for the e2ee, that’s pretty important to me. Immich definitely seems more like a drop in Google Photos alternative, I just use software on my computer to do that instead.

Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.

My bank’s app recently went like “We’ve implemented a feature if you use our widget, and also one hidden feature.” Like fucking just tell me what the fuck that’s about? I’m not looking for easter eggs in my fucking bank app.

Oh my goose! I love them! 💖

I’ve had it going for months now. Navidrome is very reliable and with docker, super easy to update should you so please.

The rolling cost is my internet, which I’d have whether I’d have Navidrome or not.

Nope. Haven’t gotten the installer to run. Tried copying over the already installed software too, no dice.

The only reason I boot into Windows is to use Substance Painter. It unfortunately requires 3D acceleration.

When I set up Navidrome I had no idea jellyfin could do music too. Pretty happy with them separate though. Not for any particular reason, they both do their jobs really well.

The UX in Nginx Proxy Manager could use some work. Would love to be able to see logs in the app as well.