megane-kun

The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it’s one sentence. That’s still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author’s own thesis.

I think it’s just a consequence of the variety of ways a Linux distro can present its options and settings. It’s far easier—and arguably, safer—to share a command than to anticipate how to get to a certain option or setting.

Just as an aside, I had this exact same problem when a friend asked me to do something on my system. I ended up having to send them screenshots of what I’m looking at in order to direct me to where I need to be. All that trouble could have been avoided had they sent me a command to run on my terminal.

Is it better to have a utility that a user can just click? Yeah! Someone can write a utility program that can do just that, I guess. But then again, the problem now becomes how the user can make sure this utility program is in their system.

I guess it can be a bash script? The user can download the script and then make it usable. It’s a few clicks in Dolphin and (Gnome) Files, probably the same in Thunar, but we’re back to the same problem: the variety of ways a GUI can take to the same end.

I highly doubt that Linux users, at least the ones who value customization, will want to lose that customizability in order to make things easier for Windows refugees and pull more of them in.

Thanks for the head’s up. I’ve switched to IronFox just earlier.

Getting it into my phone wasn’t as straightforward as I expected. I first failed to find it on Fdroid. Then I tried toinstall it via Obtanium, but somehow failed. A bit of more research gave me Fdroid repository link that allowed me to finally install it. Everything after that is a breeze though.

Moving my collections from Mull to IronFox had to be be done manually though (or maybe I just didn’t find out a better way to do it), but it wasn’t at all painful.

Thanks for the head’s up! I’ll take a look at IronFox and see if it fits my existing set-up (syncing from Linux/Windows PC to mobile). Again, thanks!

Not who you’re asking, but I’ll answer nevertheless.

I’ve jumped from vanilla Firefox, to Librewolf, and now to Floorp. I’ve also played a bit with Zen. In all of them (except Zen, which I didn’t go to the process of connecting my Mozilla account), my Mozilla account connected and synced just fine.

I also no longer use vanilla Firefox mobile, but moved on to Mull. I am able to sync my stuff from Floorp to Mull and back without much trouble.

EDIT:

Thanks to a couple of people, I was informed that Mull is now unmaintained, and that IronFox took its mantle. I’ve switched to it just earlier now, and syncing works there too!

Using Arch with KDE Plasma too. My only problem with KDE‌ Plasma is that I just can’t stop customizing it. I find a couple of things that “I can do something to improve upon” and the next thing I know I’m tweaking things again!

Other than the odd problem with Wayland/XWayland or something, that I usually just make a mental note to investigate further, I’m pretty happy. Now if I‌ can only stop myself from “making just one more little change…”