My music taste is pretty narrow and my music library is small (<800 songs). Buy my music on Band camp, then stream from Jellyfin. I wouldn’t ever pay for streaming. If I want to go through new music then I use a more targeted online radio (Jango is free and good,or YouTube is good enough for sampling).

It surprises me that people want to stream such a large amount. Do people just listen to random tunes? Happy to listen to anything? It would annoy me to try to recreate my selective music taste in an ocean of music like Spotify.

Jellyfin + Symfonium is such a great experience

Jellyfin has pretty good Linux PC clients too. Even the main Jellyfin client works well for music.

Sounds like normal UK freeview terrestrial TV. I think there are freeview streaming sites and apps if you search.

None of that logic matters man. Regulators don’t understand this shit. Do you think the UK’s online age restrictions make anyone safer? It’s all bullshit for their own purposes.

Did you see how difficult it was for “Stop Killing Games” to get momentum and be considered by regulators? And that was arguing for products you’ve already paid for.

Google will argue “security concerns” and point at Apple’s practices and easily get a free pass from regulators.

There needs to be an alternative to Android and Apple. Money may be better spent on funding non-Pixel hardware that can use Graphene.

Our tiny community squeaks into the void while normies continue to pick up pre releases and loot boxes like crazy.

I know. That’s why I’m saying it’s worth trying…for the improved UI.

Which distro should I use?

Them’s fightin words round here. Fuck [Distro 1] and its fanboys. [Distro 2] is clearly superior.

For real though:

Things for you to decide:

Which desktop environment do you want (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, cosmic, etc)

Do you want it to be super up to date all the time (quick updates, but may break something)? Or are you OK with slower updates for a more stable system?

Difficulty: How hard do you want things to be? Do you want things to be set up out-of-the-box and lots of solutions online? Or are you willing to dive deep, do stuff yourself and figure stuff out from wikis?

I wanted KDE (objectively the best desktop environment obviously) and started with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and loved it. Highly recommended. I didn’t know about TuxedoOS at the time and that seems like a good place to start too. Now I know more and am on CachyOS and am super happy with it.

Try Kwrite. I’ve liked it a lot more than Kate.

Set up an email filter that removes emails that contain “leave a review”.

Most of the comments here seem very British. This is entirely the British way…saying something good isn’t just taken at face value as a positive; instead it is taken to mean that every other time was very negative.

alternativeto.net

They have an option to filter to “works offline”

E.g. https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-word/?feature=offline-access

There’s no direct replacement. The features I use are in Pear launcher so I use that. You have to look through launcher comparisons to find the features you need.

I’ve made a post about this and some people are giving recommendations. Check out comments here: https://europe.pub/post/4256799

For those coming looking for alternatives, this mega comparison chart is what I used to select an alternative launcher when I switched.

I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you’re at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app’s exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.