That's impressive. Every time I try syncthing I am glad I have a Nextcloud server. It's so painful adding devices and keeping them all synced. I do give up pretty early as my plan A is already there so why bother with plan B.
That's unfortunate. I seldom have any issues with Syncthing. For me it's been a set it and forget it deal.
There is usually always some drama in the Linux world that I've observed over the years. Ubuntu is usually the one that gets the attention, Firefox even though it's not Linux, has a lot of drama and complaints from the Linux community more than I see from users on Windows or macOS.
That's an option, but having a drive mounted makes life a lot simpler and easier.
That was a little package yoiu could use in Arch and was a big thing on the net about 15 years ago I wish it had become standard.
it's not that much work tbh, I ran my machines on gentoo on the 00s without (many) issues... mind you that the processors were a lot slower back then and compiling the stuff did not take that long if you kept doing updates frequently.
That's an Arch thing for sure! When you install raw Arch, that is a setting you have to enable if you want it. Most derivative distros turn it on as part of the default installation. Pretty cool eye candy. There is other stuff you can turn on and off in pacman.conf.
Program called fastfetch, or the old unsupported neofetch.
Linux Mint's upstream distro is Ubuntu, though I don't think it uses snap. Fedora's default install is Gnome.
you definitely can but in my experience it 'works better' if you install the 'right flavour' (ubuntu for gnome, kubuntu for kde, xubuntu for xfce) instead of having multiple desktop environments in the same system... YMMV of course.
Without trying to go down the PRSI path, there is a push in Europe to switch away from American based software and be more independent, or Euro-centric. Linux is a strong candidate to replace Windows or macOS.
Yeah, I danced around it as well avoiding the elephant in the room.
I never really tried OnlyOffice and found LibreOffice to work for me. I did try to use open source software where it made sense for me. But if the better or only options were closed, or proprietary, then I'd use it.
SoftMaker Office is actually around for decades already. I remember having a set of floppy disks with an early version back in the 386 days. It was accompanied by hard copy documentation in very "enthusiastic" German language. When I recently installed Linux on several of our Macs, I discovered that there is a free Linux version available. I agree it's actually quite good.
My intent was to get rid of Office 365, and I was using OnlyOffice but it just didn't measure up to my expectations. Being free/open source I largely sucked it up and dealt with the short comings but Softmaker Office 2024, is much better. I can run it on multiple platforms, and the licesnse allows multiple installs.
Have you purchased the full version and, if yes, does it have any advantages over the free one (besides no nagging)?
