I was using https://f-droid.org/en/packages/codes.swistak.batterymonitor/ because it worked reliably while others were a bit buggy for me.

I find both projects very interesting too. I see some distro hopping incoming… Well, least try it out on my secondary device.

Very interesting approach, please keep us posted and best of luck!

Edit: just thought, have you ever heard of RakuOS ? They seem to have similar ideas, about the unlocking while still atomic.

Interesting. Please let us know about your project once it’s ready.

I often have this conversation with the people I do Linux support with. We either go for Debian, which can be a bit tricky to install on some machines or Fedora/OpenSUSE with KDE Plasma. Since you want an Ubuntu based system, maybe check out MX Linux, but be aware, that it needs manual migration between major versions (https://mxlinux.org/migration/). Maybe also have a look at this list: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?desktop=KDE+Plasma#simple

KDE has a lot on documentation, maybe you would get some inspiration of how this can be done: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/documentation

I’m running everything that is proprietary (Steam for example) on a second user that is a not an admin account. Heroic and the like are installed via Flatpak that is sandboxed. Sometimes games contain malware, even on Steam. If something goes badly wrong, I purge that second user.

A shop that’s been around for ages and is very generous when it comes to adding extra stuff to a big order - our local group is ordering there for many years now: https://www.ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi (see “Fan-Artikel” then “Aufkleber” - yes, the website looks dated, I know)

These “emulated windows paths” are called prefixes. For Steam it depends on the game where it will put the save files, for Bazzite I would start looking at following locations as mentioned in this post (even though this is about a different game, but the information is still valid): https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/saved-games-for-2-steam-accounts/10900/2

There are dozens of articles about why Ubuntu has drawn criticism, here is an example: https://abh.ai/blog/why-ubuntu-and-canonical-drew-criticism-many-members-foss-community

I would recommend you read some of them to make up your own mind, and don’t rely too much on opinions here. Privacy is a broad term, only you know what is important to you and where you would draw the line.

I doubt that copying Battle.net over will work, I would try installing it via Heroic or Bottles, which has the installer preconfigured.

They are thinking about this for a while now, in January they announced: “Lastly and on an unrelated note, we’ve also begun testing Faugus Launcher as a potential replacement for Lutris in our :testing branch. If we move forward with this change, we’ll provide at least six months of advance notice before removing Lutris so you’ll have plenty of time to migrate your prefixes.”

I’ve heard it here: https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-giant-hianime-to-announces-mysterious-goodbye/

First I always check with sudo journalctl -r Check journalctl --help for more options or do sudo journalctl --since "2015-06-26 23:15:00" --until "2015-06-26 23:20:00" Then search errors online or come back with more questions.

You were posting in the KDE community, so I was assuming you are using KDE. Can’t answer a Linux Mint question, sorry.

What icon theme is set? Breeze dark for example shows white icons on dark background in all apps for me.

Thank you for this, it looks great!

I will have the time to check this out further on the weekend, but quick question before: will people be able to find channels aligned with their interests like they do on Discord? Let’s say for certain games or other topics. Because that is why many of my friends are still there.

Not on the high seas, but 831 results: https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry?and[]=language%3A"German"

First you need to download the provided file from the distro page. Something with Checksum in the name most of the time. The website should provide instructions. Please note that does not validate the gpg key.

Quick Method Terminal: Open the terminal at the location of the ISO file or go there with cd. Type sha256sum NameOfIsoFile.iso - it takes a moment depending on your system. Copy the output (some long numbers/letters). Compare it with the downloaded checksum-file - open the file, press ctrl-f or whatever you have for find and paste it. If it’s found, it’s the same.

Method KDE: Right click the file, open properties, then go to tab “Checksums”. Paste same number/letter combination from above into the provided space “Expected checksums…” - if it’s green, it’s correct.