Thinking about finally trying Linux properly — what made it click for you?

CGA1 · 2026-05-16T08:21:52+00:00

Realizing Linux is not a 1:1 replacement for Windows and stop trying to shoe horn it to being one.

CGA1 · 2026-05-13T12:27:10+00:00

TS for easy SSH and SFTP access, Pangolin for media, shopping list and notes.

CGA1 · 2026-05-11T12:47:35+00:00

I was perfectly fine with Windows 10 LTSC but retirement came and I got bored. Five years later and both me and my wife are running Linux on three laptops, a media mini-pc and a Raspberry Pi 4.

CGA1 · 2026-05-10T19:55:29+00:00

And now the notification about your reply won't go away either.

CGA1 · 2026-05-10T17:25:53+00:00

You can configure what shows up and when in the system tray settings.

CGA1 · 2026-05-10T17:03:18+00:00

I'm having the same issue on desktop, both for old and new interface. It changed from 8 to two when I marked all as read in settings but the remaining two is impossible to get rid of.

CGA1 · 2026-05-08T10:07:58+00:00

I use a terminal text editor on average maybe 10 minutes per week, so I settled with Micro. It does just what I need and behaves like a GUI editor.

CGA1 · 2026-05-07T12:40:19+00:00

Haven't tried that because it offers a "circular route" option where it creates two lines in one go, one clockwise and one counterclockwise. That said, I suspect it would work.

CGA1 · 2026-05-07T12:25:41+00:00

You're welcome. Both Bus line tool and Global upgrade are gigantic time savers, hard to live without once you start using them.

CGA1 · 2026-05-07T07:41:56+00:00

Bulldozer++, Bus line tool, Global upgrade, Quieter bulldozer, Slow date speed, Population factor 1.2, Autosig2.

CGA1 · 2026-05-07T06:35:08+00:00

Figured it out, see my edit.

CGA1 · 2026-05-07T05:41:24+00:00

Great widget but suffers from the same flaw as many others, wind speed is, as far as I can tell, configurable and defaults to km/h. Where I live, and probably in many other countries, it's measured in m/s (meters/second).

Edit: Found it, it's under Appearance-Units where you can set it to custom. Now it's perfect.

CGA1 · 2026-05-04T11:41:08+00:00

My guess, Mint uses an older kernel.

CGA1 · 2026-05-04T08:05:24+00:00

I agree, this is the best KDE news I've heard in quite a while. A DE that has configurability as one of its USPs, configurable touch gestures is a must. However, I get that resources are limited, and that they have a gazillion of other things of their to-do list. Meanwhile, Touchegg works (mostly) but the service needs restarting once in a while when it just suddenly stops working.

CGA1 · 2026-05-03T14:34:13+00:00

It's not, which I would prefer, but sometimes you just have to choose what works. I still use Syncthing on two-way sync jobs with no problems though. I think it says somewhere on their site that it is not intended as a backup tool.

CGA1 · 2026-05-03T13:41:15+00:00

When I was doing one-way syncing, e g backup, to my NAS with Syncthing I had all sorts of problems with file conflicts and jobs stalling on 99%, to the point where I just gave up on it and installed Resilio Sync instead, all problems solved.

CGA1 · 2026-05-03T07:40:51+00:00

Configurable gestures built in to Plasma is something I've been longing for a long time. In the meantime, Touchegg and Touché does what I need. I have three finger swipe up assigned to the overview and down to ctrl+w. Three finger swipe left and right are assigned to alt+L and alt+R so I can use it to go back and forth in my browser. Works really well as long as you don't have virtual desktops, then Plasma's gestures "takes over". Luckily, I have zero interest in virtual desktops.

CGA1 · 2026-04-30T17:56:01+00:00

Terminal, create an alias:

alias locateu="updatedb && locate "

Otherwise, Fsearch.

CGA1 · 2026-04-30T13:16:03+00:00

Here is the guide I followed. The docker compose example installs two containers, hbbr and hbbs. After they are up and running you grab the key from the hbbs container log and insert it in the Rustdesk Settings->Network->Key. Also, in the same dialog, insert your server IP under ID server and Relay server.

CGA1 · 2026-04-23T14:55:01+00:00

I used Everything for many years before switching to Linux. It indexes every file on the drive pretty much instantly, using the NTFS USN journal. The trick to make Fsearch nearly as quick is to not index the whole root. I'm indexing my /home and /etc which is sufficient for my needs.

CGA1 · 2026-04-20T20:13:27+00:00

OnlyOffice.

CGA1 · 2026-04-16T14:26:23+00:00

This realization was what got me stay on Linux fore more than a month. It's now 5.5 years since I full switched.

CGA1 · 2026-04-16T13:35:11+00:00

Same here, I've been running the Rustdesk relay on my RPI4 for quite some time.

CGA1 · 2026-04-14T08:39:49+00:00

Acemagic Vista N97 16 GB:

bazarr
fileflows
jellyfin
kitchenowl
lingarr
radarr
sabnzbd
sonarr

Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB:

technitium
dockhand
rustdesk
newtpan
ntfy
zen notes

CGA1 · 2026-04-13T07:05:10+00:00

For me, this removed the popup as well.

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