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  • Can’t answer for all your requirements but for the gist of it I’m guessing you’d like KDE. I guess you’d like Kate as your text editor and Krename as your file rename tool. It comes with some Windows-y keyboard shortcuts set by default as Win+L to lock the screen (and ask for your password).

    Can’t tell about ffmpeg nor mpv GUI frontends as I’m more of a cli person but I seem to recall there are several KDE/Qt frontends for mpv and it won’t be surprising if there’s one for ffmpeg too.

    As for your distro question I’d try Fedora if I were you, though you might feel adventurous and try with Arch (and surely you’ll learn a thing or two about Linux and your computer).

    Other than that, the nice people in here surely can give you better options.



  • I’m old and my gateway to Linux was Ubuntu 5.10 via a live CD they gave me at uni back in 2006.

    I got to experience it when they used to take seriously their “Linux for human beings” motto.

    Those were GNOME 2 and kernel 2.x times. Albeit the limitations of the technology (40GB HDD disk, 256 MB RAM, an Intel Xeon processor which I can’t remember it’s exact specs) it felt way snappier (no pun intended) than Windows. You could felt they cared about it in that brown visual theme, the icons, the sounds, the way the documentation was phrased - you could feel the Ubuntu in it.

    I ended wiping my entire docs drive while trying to install it but got to learn lots of stuff and feel like my computer was actually mine.

    Same as for many people my generation, I switched to Linux thanks to that Ubuntu. It’s really sad what it has become and the poor, selfish decisions they have taken, but still it keeps holding a special place in the Linux memories.


  • We had the same ISP at home for about 16 years. Internet runs over copper cable along with the landline phone service.

    On April this year they sent a letter saying they are deprecating copper lines and switching everything to optic fiber, but for some reason our neighborhood is not getting it so they were supposed to terminate the contract and stopping their services on April 2025.

    But they did that past Wednesday, all of a sudden, without notifying us whatsoever. They are not answering why are doing this either. On Wednesday I called them to ask what was going on and they told me they were going to reconnect on Thursday morning, but at 4:00 pm it was still the same. Called them again and said they were not reconnecting us because fuck you.

    So I can’t visit most of the web right now and I fear I might be booted from the WFH job. The couple of things I use frequently that are still working somehow are Feedly and Lemmy. Tried to switch DNS addresses at the router trying to circumvent this to no avail.

    Heading to the nearest library in a couple of hours to talk with my boss.



  • That means the lack of huge software like Gnome

    Been using Gentoo since Jan 2009 and one of the reasons I moved to it and never looked back was because it let me tailor “huge software” like KDE to my needs, with the aid of USE flags and sets. That’s what an actual customizable distro let you to do. If you want to use “smaller software” like, say, Openbox, it won’t get in your way either.

    So that point of “centered around smaller software” strucks as weird to me - it goes against the “customizability” point and, ironically, the very Linux kernel is “huge software”…







  • Yeah, no. Pretty bad argument.

    When you buy a phone you know it will have calls and SMS - it’s what you bought the phone in the first place. You bought them because of that. RCS is still just a fancy alternative.

    Barring that, the EU’s DMA is forcing the most important chat apps to interoperate at the very least, though full support (including calling and such) isn’t mandatory until somewhere in 2027.

    And you’re missing the point again - a company doing a multi IM service app, like Beeper Mini, is not the same that a group of volunteers doing a multi service IM app, like Pidgin. They’re still going to be closed source and they will not guarantee to give support for platforms people need. Beeper mini on desktop? Beeper mini on Linux/BSD? Forget it.