KDE Neon is basically dead and only has one developer. It has also has numerous problems in the past making it unstable. KDE has an official distro (KDE Linux) now that they actually use as a test bed, though it is in alpha last I heard.

Fedora has amazing support for KDE in my experience. Fedora or openSUSE.

You could use a VOIP provider so you can do calls and SMS from your computer without needing a SIM. An example provider is JMP.chat, which could then be used with any fully featured desktop XMPP app, like Dino or Gajim.

For ditching Signal on mobile, you can use Flare, an unofficial Signal desktop app built from scratch, which supports setting it up as the primary device. It is recommended to use the Flare in conjunction with the official Signal desktop app so that you get all of the features without compromises.

Not a great name when the Soulseek project already exists. Soulseek has been around for much longer and such a name collision could have been avoided if they asked around in FOSS communities before choosing it.

The one I like to use was not mentioned. It is called Gapless (g4music) and is available on Flathub. Basically, you just specify a library location and based on metadata it sort things. The Flatpak requires minimal permissions by default, but you can disable Network permission because it only uses it to song album art (which in most cases is embedded in the song file itself).

OCR support seems really cool. Currently for OCR I either use NormCap, or on Android some random OCR on f-droid which doesnt have any crazy perms.

Lol, GNOME 46

PLM is hard dependent on systemd.

Yeah np

No, nothing runs as root in a Flatpak. The problem is that Flatpak stops apps from using unprivileged user namespaces, which is used by all modern browsers to isolate web contents. Because the browser (Firefox) can’t use namespaces, a malicious website can use a single exploit instead of needing to chain two separate exploits, making it significantly more likely to break the sandbox.

The Firefox Flatpak has much weaker isolation because the Flatpak sandbox interferes with the browser sandbox. This means a malicious site can compromise other sites and even the whole browser with a single exploit instead of the two normally required (which is a significant degradation in protection). The specific part blocked by Flatpak is user namespace sandboxing by Firefox. If you can help it, DO NOT install as Flatpak. Snap does not have this problem, but nobody likes Snap. Chromium has a similar problem as a Flatpak.

For higher quality Text-to-Speech, install Pied (Flatpak or Snap), which offers a GUI for installing and configuring Piper TTS voices.

I would use something like Transcribro for voice input. It works really well, doesn’t require internet, is actually Open Source (unlike futo, also futo cofounder is a cryptofascist), and is on Accrescent (preferred) or GitHub releases.

Ok. I guess I never noticed because I actively don’t like any of those features and I definitely don’t want Discord to have unrestricted filesystem access. The file picker in Vesktop works for me without giving full access.

What features? Discord was working perfect for me on a custom client (Vesktop) but is broken now because they hate me using a VPN.

Honestly, I thought the post may have been making a joke about GIMP sucking or something, cus half the time I see GIMP it is people hating on its (admittedly) not-great UX.

I feel like I have used a couple mouses in my life that don’t or barely make a audible click. The important part of the click feedback to my is their being a little resistance and then it fully deforms after getting past a threshold. The click does not need to be audible.

I think is very dependent on the apps you install because i haven’t need to do really any workarounds and i install all my apps through Flatpak. The only messing around with permissions i do is disabling everything that i dont need (like printer or smartcard access). I also have over a hundred apps installed.

I recommend Swappa.com because you get better quality assurance, 30 day money back, and there is basically zero chance it has its IMEI blacklisted (some sellers on eBay and Amazon may sell stolen phones).

Librewolf offers a setting to re-enable FF Sync. There are similar toggles for other things.