Flathub and the AUR are by far the most comprehensive, and flatpaks works on a lot of distros. So I checked those.

They’ve also been getting their kinks worked out over the last few years and work much better than they used to.

That review you found is two years old and was for version 1.1. Current version is 1.4. Try it out today, if it’s been fixed leave another review letting people know. It seems to work just fine for me, but I haven’t used it before.

Material Maker is on Flathub, the AUR, and on Snapcraft (not up to date, but you shouldn’t use snap anyway).

No need for a manual install.

You’ll find a lot of software is available via package managers. Linux people don’t like installing anything without it being managed by a package manager so the installation and subsequent updates are automatic and occur alongside system updates. So when people find software they like, they’ll go out of their way to package and distribute it for others as well

Yes. But you didn’t.

Knowing what something does is important.

If you install a piece of software expecting it to do something it actually doesn’t, that can leave a security gap.

I wasn’t just correcting you. I was making sure you knew that if you install a “firewall” it won’t do the thing you’re looking for.

As for an actual answer, most distros will already ask you to confirm if you try to run a random appimage you downloaded.

But you shouldn’t need to do that in the first place. On linux, there’s not really any need to go running random programs downloaded using your web browser, since you can just download software from trusted reposotories that aren’t going to host malware to begin with.

Unlike on windows… You don’t need to risk it in the first place.

And I’m telling you a firewall won’t do that.

It won’t have anything to say at all about something you download and run.

It’s a completely different security feature. It handles potentially malicious network activity. Not software on your computer.

It’s not federated tho?

Why do they mean when they call it that?

oh with the firewall saving me from myself I meant if I download something thinking it’s safe but isn’t

A firewall would not save you from that.

A firewall stops random incoming connections. But if you download and run something bad, that’d be an outgoing connection, since the malicious program is then already on your system.

Almost everything you do on desktop linux is already “outside the core os”.

This is mostly relevant for server software configuration, where you should run services with as few system privileges as possible. Preferably you isolate them entirely with a separate user with access to only the bare minimum it needs.

This way, if a service is compromised, it can’t be used to access the core system, because it never had such access in the first place. Only what it needed to do its own thing.

By default, nothing you run (web browser, steam, spotify, whatever) should be “running as admin”.

The only time you’ll do that on desktop linux, is when doing stuff that requires it. Such as installing a new app, or updating the system. Stuff that modifies the core os and hence needs access.

Basically, unless you needed to enter you password to run something, then it’s already “outside” the core os.

That’s the one.

I also need to work out how to do automatic certificate renewal and if that’s even worth doing

This is what certbot is for. For example, with nginx, you just set up the webserver to be reachable via your domain.

You then install and run certbot, and it will aquire, install and configure, and then set itself up to auto-renew, a certificate. All with just one command.

With Nextcloud specifically I also don’t like the fact that you can’t change the domain after the initial setup

Yes you can?

I’ve done it thrice now.

Is this some limitation of the docker AIO stack?

FolderSync pairs nicely if you want some sync features on android.

On a desktop or laptop I’d just mount it as a drive.

If you really want automatic sync with offline availability, the Nextcloud desktop client has been solid for years now.

Indeed.

I’m not saying there aren’t NASes that do this. Unfortunately, there absolutely are.

No sane NAS should work that way.

Unless you have a giant raid array, where you need all the drives running at the same time on the same system, plugging in a single raid 1 member, for example, via usb to sata adapter, should let you access its contents just fine.

Provided you’re on an OS that can read the file system. That can require some extra effort on windows.

But yeah. Beware of the pre-built NASes. The vendor lock-in is real.

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.