I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.
I don’t use a Yubikey though.
Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
mastodon / blog / listenbrainz
I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.
I don’t use a Yubikey though.
I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.
You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.
In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)
I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.
cmus is great for music
mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.
beets for sorting music
nicotine plus for looking for music
syncthing
zathura
improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box
Outside of Gnome I think you may need to install an additional package like evolution-on
Already mentioned, but Strawberry is worth checking out. If Quod Libet works, stick with that. I liked it when I used it.
mpd has a number of frontends.
No longer developed I think, but I’ll mention gmusicbrowser as it used to be my go-to.
cmus is what I use now.
I also have a very large library and use Debian 12.5 so I’ll bookmark this thread for later.
Sometimes yt-dlp drops fragments leading to corrupt files, maybe that’s what’s going on.
I went through something similar with my Brother printer, but stuck with USB. I’ll have to give your tips a try later.
I haven’t been able to get 2-sided to work except with LibreOffice for some reason, but maybe that DuplexNoTumble
thing is the key…or value.
Also, for Plank at least, I have a feeling that development has stopped so waiting won’t help. You’ll need to find an alternative.
Hi,
It it possible that Plank doesn’t work with Wayland, plain and simple.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/plank/+bug/1632841
The latest version dates back to 2019.
I think Dash to dock is used often.
For Guake the version in Bookworm is from 2022 and you may need to set an environmental variable or perhaps it isn’t built with Wayland support on Debian.
You could hit up the Debian forums for a better answer.
If I’m correct, that would mean that technically, I could authenticate to an SSH server without supplying my name if I use a private key?
Yes.
The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well? If yes, I don’t see the need to hand that info to an SSH call. If no, how does the SSH server know which public key it’s supposed to use to challenge my private key ownership?
Most of this can be found reading through different Git docs, whether from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, etc. When using Git you can use different keys for different repos/forges and each has a defined pair, similar to accessing different SSH servers that require specific key pairs. I do understand your questions, but I lack the finesse to explain it since I really only use SSH and Git for my blog and not for anything too complicated.
There are some tips here that might help
https://github.com/dajeed/arch-linux-font-improvement-guide
Important to note that restarting or running sudo fc-cache -fv
is key when doing things with fonts.
I don’t feel like my system is bloated.
It probably isn’t bloated.
I guess it’s subjective, but when do you consider a system to be bloated?
If someone is testing out several different DEs or WMs and installing meta-packages, then I suppose I might say that things are bloated because they could end up having multiple apps to control the same preferences along with different libraries, etc., and then when they decide to update it takes ages. That would be bloated for me. I have tried the minimal stuff before. Like you said, hundreds of packages, not thousands. But, I didn’t install any manpages. So when I decided I wanted those manpages the number of packages ballooned. Nothing was really bloated, just a number on neofetch going up.
Content mills…
Just go to the source. The dev is sharing more info and videos. Sure, it is on LinkedIn which is rubbish but at least it isn’t 9to5Linux
Strawberry Music Player has smart and dynamic playlist generators. I cannot say how well they work.
The package manager for Alpine is…so fast. The community (IRC/Gitlab) is responsive and helpful.
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics says that Alpine Edge has a higher percentage of up-to-date packages.
I do agree that a new user should use something like Fedora first. But OP wants Alpine.
Neat. Thanks.
I don’t agree with all the sources listed on the website, but that’s ok. The information should still be on the list.
What I think most beginners need is a simple way to determine their threat model. Otherwise, someone just stumbling down the rabbit hole might see a list or a site like this as a “to-do list” and drive themselves crazy.
I ignored Geany for years.
Sometimes it came preinstalled, so I knew about it. I didn’t program, why would I need more than, say, whatever the basic text editor was?
Then I found myself in the position of only having one working computer (other than my company-provided laptop): a raspberry pi 400. The Raspberry Pi Desktop (Debian) comes with Geany preinstalled and I just started using it one day. I got it. It is light, it has some extra options, plugins, themes… Looking forward to updating later to see if there are any big changes.
Many have surprised me for different reasons.
The most recent that did is Alpine. I decided for some reason to install it for regular desktop use on an RPI400.
First surprise, the ISO was so small. Second surprise, everything installed so fast when I used the install scripts. Third surprise was the up-to-date repos. The final surprise was the community: it handled noob questions and complicated questions so well, walked users through click by click and one command at a time. Awesome and totally an acceptable option for a desktop which is why I immediately installed it on my main laptop and used it for a number of months.