Try installing just plasma-desktop

Would love to use SimpleX too, but the plan fell apart while trying to use it with family. Surprisingly many people fail to grasp the concept of anything other than a phone number, social media profile, or email address. It fell apart among my more tech-savvy friends because we missed calls and had delayed notifications despite SimpleX eating through the battery like no other messaging app.

No doubt, SimpleX is the concept of a messaging app done right and could be better than any other. It’s just the implementation that needs work. But I’d be happy to hear if there’s any optimizations I could try and revisit it.

See if anyone has reviewed how the model of interest performs under Linux or check if there’s a report for it on linux-hardware.org

Around 2020, I had purchased a new laptop and desktop. It took about two years until everything worked on the laptop under Arch, main issue being the microphone and speakers. About another year and a half until the same on Debian. On the desktop, the wireless card didn’t work with Linux on day one and still doesn’t work that well on Linux to this day. Swapped that thing out with an Intel wireless card.

Building an Android ROM is decently resource-intensive. Back when DivestOS was first discontinued, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do about rolling my own updates for my device. Decided against it once I saw how much RAM (or tradeoff being time) it would need.

Also I’m lazy and I’d probably miss security updates if I had to go through the build process as frequently as GrapheneOS updates.

Driver support for various old peripherals and nvidia cards

I use UTC+0 because I don’t like the ideas of timezones and DST.

Surprisingly good in most cases. Main thing missing for me is support for programs directly talking to USB devices (understandably, the associated driver support is its own can of worms).

1000% agree. Had to install an older version of Pinta because it was also gnomed a while back.

While I’ve yet to contribute to open-source projects aside from reporting issues, I’ve got my eyes set on something like libadapta. As soon as one of the programs I use on a daily basis gets gnomed, I’m going all in to soft fork libadwaita and restore as many GTK3 features as I can.

• someone who ran rm -rf /usr/share/icons/Adwaita

I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.

Depends on the degree of coreboot support. If the vendor or a firm like 3mdeb officially supports coreboot on your model of choice, it’ll have first-class support and you won’t miss out on anything compared to your typical proprietary BIOS.

If you plan on installing it yourself, do read carefully through the coreboot docs since some systems will have a few quirks (e.g. audio jack issues on T480/T470). But once coreboot is up and running on your computer, it’s smooth sailing on Linux. Compiling and flashing can be a bit of a rabbit hole, but I’m happy to give some pointers if you go this route.

I daily drive a ThinkPad X230 with Libreboot and haven’t had any issues. The only significant differences I’ve noticed are

• Faster boot times (1 to 2 seconds to reach LUKS prompt)
• Config menu (nvramcui payload) has very few options
• (Libreboot exclusive) Full-disk encryption by having GRUB with LUKS2 support directly on the BIOS
• I left out UEFI support since it’s complicated on the X230 and it’s not necessary for Linux to boot

Lost my mind a few years ago over this quirk. Now I always change both files when I want to change the hostname.

I’ve been daily driving Debian Stable for the past 5 years and I am more than happy to continue for the next five. It’s also on nearly all of my machines and the majority of my VMs.

I’m honestly not very keen on the latest features or hardware, but I am very keen on my software being predictable and consistent, so the Debian release cycle is perfect for me.

Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too, but I can see where you’re coming from. I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.

Have you considered making a sort of install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks? Makes it all a bit more accessible for those interested to adopt elements of your system. I’ve personally wanted to put together an automated install script once I perfect my Chicago95 rice since I’d imagine there’s quite a few people who want a one-click, retro, but functional system.

Got Debian with MATE on a couple of my computers. It’s easy on the eyes and easy on system resources. I like that its file manager lets you expand folders so I have that installed on my XFCE machines too.

Every day I feel more justified in keeping my 1990s car running.

(I’d also like to walk or take public transit, but the infrastructure here is car dependent)

No idea about Honeyhell stuff, but last time I was stuck with something that needed wifi to work, I bought a cheap used router, made an access point just for that device, and never connected the router to the internet.

I’d say go for it. I can attest that it’s a very polished experience and the GrapheneOS devs go at length to ensure that their work is both secure and reliable. Just make sure it’s the factory unlocked variant so you can unlock the bootloader. Any apps that require regular Android can be put on a separate phone.

I will admit, I miss the smooth graphics of Virtualbox. It’s quite evident with dragging windows around or playing a video inside a VM. Don’t want to touch Oracle stuff anymore though. Anyone here manage to get that working on virt-manager?

Functionally, not really. I can get my work done on anything from FVWM to GNOME without a hitch.

Aesthetically, very much. The Chicago95 theme sparks joy and makes work just a bit more enjoyable. KDE and GNOME might have more creature comforts, but I will happily tolerate XFCE because it works well with Chicago95. I don’t even do fresh installs anymore because of the time it takes for me to configure the visual style just right. I’ll instead image from an install I’ve prepared on a VM.

In matters where the judgement of the courts cannot be trusted and I would be jailed either way, I’d rather have the option to wipe my phone.