It seems your point is to shit on KDE, in contrast to MacOS. But since you don’t actually know the current state of either, you’re just making a fool of yourself.

Good day.

And has been the MacOS way for a while now, too.

What was your point, again?

It is.

That MacOS doesn’t display the scrollbar except while scrolling, does not reduce the height of the total list.

Both have search fields for good reason.

Don’t be difficult.

You really cannot argue that the layout, and hence how people would actually navigate it is not “about the same”. Your words.

To bring up a cosmetic difference is a nitpick. It’s the breeze theme, with a personal color scheme on top, not something explicitly made to look like MacOS. Which it could be.

You really haven’t checked lately, then.

KDE can be set up such that a ex-mac-user barely has to re-learn anything.

The difference is that while gnome looks a lot like MacOS, it isn’t exactly like it in terms of layout. An ex-mac-user will look for certain things in certain places, and won’t always find them. (such as power off/restart being up in the left corner)

Meanwhile, the customizability of the KDE desktop means you can manually put the same things in the same places as on MacOS. You can put a krunner search button in the same spot as the spotlight search button. You can make a panel that behaves like the dock, floating and shrinking to fit the number of icons in it. You can have a top panel with a power menu on the left end, and you can display a global menu to the right of it. Even the krunner keybind is the same, and spotlight people tend to pickup krunner like nothing.

Finally, the KDE settings application seems to be the most similar to the modern MacOS settings application.

The big caveat being that the user will need someone who can instruct them with setting this up, or who can set it up for them.

Gnome is closer out of the box.

But you can make KDE work almost exactly like macOS. The top bar context menu, power menu, bottom dock, left-hand window buttons, etc.

It just involves changing a bunch of settings.

You can also just hook your phone up via usb and enable usb tethering, allowing the PC to use wifi or mobile broadband via the phone.

Sure does. Look at the store page.

They literally made it into a lil guy!

Those new controllers look like EXACTLY what I’ve been hoping for.

The Index controllers are great, unless your hands are big. Then they’re barely usable imo.

The best fit for me was the OG Oculus Touch controller, and these look like they stole everything about those that worked.

A part of it is concern.

System administration on a system you’re planning to use remotely over the internet must be done right. Not being sure what you’re doing is how we all learn, but you really should be sure before exposing yourself to the internet.

It’s not like experimenting with linux on a laptop. Self-hosting is usually about providing some sort of service for yourself, which if accessed by someone malicious, can be used to really hurt you.

I didn’t tho.

You’re confusing my homelab with my dads OMV NAS that is running kopia as its only non-standard service because I wanted to use it as my off-site target.

I wasn’t presenting OMV as the solution to all of OPs examples, I literally just commented to point out “hey this is kinda like hexos but foss”.

To which you responded “lol no, there is no comparison”. Which is both untrue, and a rude way to go about saying anything.

I don’t use docker via a GUI. And I don’t run docker at all on the NAS running OMV.

My backup solution is Kopia. Two servers, each running an instance that backs up local storage to the other.

OP isn’t talking about a full homelab. If all you need is a home VPN and some network storage via SMB, OMV is fine.

For my homelab, OMV would be clunky af. For the NAS at my dad’s end, it’s ideal.

For a free foss alternative, look at OMV (OpenMediaVault).

Most of what a user might need is fairly simple to set up in the webUI, and if you know what you are doing, you can still go into the underlying debian system and do whatever you like.

Looks like in plasma 5 you need to mess with .desktop files placed in ~/.local/share/templates/

It’s not a dotfolder. It has to be “Templates” not “.Templates”.

Hence my follow-up on how to hide it.

If you’d like to hide the Templates folder, you can create a file called “.hidden” in your home directory.

In it, simply write “Templates”.

This way the folder becomes hidden, without changing its name to add a period.

You can add additional lines with more file and foldernames, so you can keep your home directory tidy for normal use, even if stuff relies on a file or folder there not having a period in the name.

To add more file creation options, you use a Templates folder.

Just create a folder named “Templates” in your home directory. Then use rnote to save an empty rnote file in that directory.

Your right click menu to create new files should now get an option to “create” rnote files (which are really just copies of the file in the Templates folder).

You can add whatever types of files you want in Templates, and they don’t have to be empty.

Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click

Probably massive overkill for OP particular, but if you wanna listen across several devices, the best option.