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Thanks for the feedback :D. I totally get the proof-reading argument, I'll take extra time to proof-read my next ones for sure. This post was kinda caught in the crossfire a bit to be honest, as it's been applied onto four different platforms at this point as I try to find one I like. So I simply forgot to do a thorough proof-read.

Damn, that Bloggi looks awesome. You've also taken exactly the same path as me. When I wanted to start a blog, I first looked at Jekyll, then Hugo, now I'm writing my own thing with just HTML & CSS. I'm probably gonna sign up for Bloggi, thanks :P. If they have any referral program I'm more than happy to use your link.

If your VPN supports WireGuard config files, I've had good results using wireguard-tools in a toolbox and wg-quick to bring up the interface (also from the toolbox). I have Proton Unlimited and so use a separate config for port-forwarding when I torrent, the app doesn't work for port-forwarding for the same reasons yours doesn't at all I imagine.

Thanks for the info! :D. I use Budgie simply because it's my favorite. I don't like Gnome's scale nor childishly large UI elements, but I want a desktop that uses GTK. KDE is Qt, so no GTK apps really look right there. Sure you can theme GTK to fit your Qt theme, but they still aren't 100%. I'll give KDE another try when 6 releases, but it's obviously still gonna be on Qt.

I've used KDE, Gnome and Budgie extensively. Budgie is hands-down the nicest to use. It's light, it's consistent, it's modern so on and so forth. KDE used to be my main, but after I learnt that Budgie development had picked back up I switched for good.

I agree with your X.Org distaste. I don't like that I'm using it too but we know that Wayland is coming to Budgie very soon so I'm ok with waiting. Battery life on my laptop is good enough, and I experience no X.Org artifacts such as tearing on my desktop (probably thanks to a 165Hz monitor :P).

Here :D

Pretty much that to be honest, so all of your apps are flatpaks. The base system is also kinda sandboxed, it's access is prohibited and instead you employ "layering".

I use Fedora Atomic on my desktop and laptop so I'll explain that one here. Atomic distros function off of Atomic transactions, which are a process form that can only successfully complete. If an Atomic transaction did fail, the entire transaction would be undone and reverted. This practically makes Atomic distros unbreakable. If an update fails, what update? Who said there was an update? No trace.

Obviously you can change the base system, as flatpak isn't suitable for all apps. This is where that layering comes in I mentioned earlier. I use XFCE-Terminal, obviously not a great candidate for a flatpak. So to install a package normally (as if through DNF) you need to use a packge manager that deals in Atomic. Fedora Atomic ships with their tool called rpm-ostree. I don't know quite how it works but I'm pretty sure it creates a branch of the current system (like Git) and installs the package there, then upon next boot you'll use the new branch and the old one discarded. Doing this means that if the package failed to install, your system is unchanged.

Atomic distros are super cool and I can't imagine not using one. They do so much that should've been done a loooong time ago. I highly recommend them. I have an unpublished blog post about my experience using Fedora Atomic that I'm more than happy to post here if you'd like.

You could look into Atomic distros if you value sandboxing, such as Fedora Atomic or Vanilla OS. I don't know much about the debian space as Arch was my first distro so I kinda ran before I crawled.

Something has definitely been buggered seven ways from sunday here. If you need it I'm willing to provide you my config which you could then paste in. I haven't changed anything, just enabled OS prober. Take this as a last resort though.

Gnome terminal looks weird, or old, because it uses a different UI library to the other Gnome apps.

The new looking ones use GTK4/Libadwaita, wheras Gnome terminal uses GTK3. There is porting work being done, but for the time being you can use another terminal which is Libadwaita such as Blackbox or use this theme which makes GTK3 look like GTK4.

Yeah, recently R4FO has been quite on/off. Just switch to another one with the least users.

I'm using Fedora Atomic Budgie right now, and I'm of the viewpoint that I want my system to be my system. That is why I used Arch / Artix for so long.

Eventually however, I tried out Atomic distros in VMs and initially disliked their "restrictive" nature. But after too many random breakages on Arch, I went for it on my desktop as I imagined it'd be good for reliability.

That was about 2 months ago, and the very same install is still going strong on my desktop and now laptop too (which I'm writing this on). That is hands-down the longest a single instance has continued to exist for me. I love it.

I think we need to reconsider everything about the "Linux desktop" we all dream of. Let's say we get 60% of existing Windows users onto our side in the next 5 years. That is a lot of people. Too many people for us to assume they're all willing to embrace the total freedom we advertise. This is where we need to go, we need more standardization across the board. I'm almost at the point where I'd only recommend Atomic distros to new users, as new users are going to be scared off if something spontaneously breaks. New users are also going to be inquisitive, so they may cause breakages.

Wayland is just overall the next step, X.Org is older than me, older than many of us to be honest. If projects are left abandoned due to the complexity of Wayland, oh well? The fraction of the userbase that used those projects are just gonna have to get with the times I'm afraid.

Linux needs to grow-up a bit, Windows is getting more and more enshittified by the week. Sooner or later it's gonna reach a tipping point and people are start dropping off and coming to us. We need to prepare for an influx of "normies" essentially. Because of that, I welcome Atomicity, Wayland and other evil evil oh so terrible things that "corpos" are doing.

Lower users is better, Google throttles the large ones.

Like other people, whole discographies. Artist URL straight into deemix and let it do it's thing.

For finding new music, I mostly rely on radiostations such as Kerrang! and YouTube subscriptions or recommendations.

MP3 320 is what I go for, I don't have the equipment to benefit from FLAC.

I set and forget too, never delete. You never know when it'll become impossible to get that data back if you want it.

It' the individual frames that are compressed, essentially the video is unpacked and detail is culled from averages across multiple other frames beside it. So if the top of the video, for example the sky, doesn't change then that part will be kept static.

It's not so much properties about the video, but properties about each frame. I can take a 1080p image and blow it up to 8K in GIMP, but it's got the same detail as a 1080p image.

Hold fire on that 4K business, if you haven't yet I recommend you do a test to see if you can actually tell the difference between Torrent 1080p & Torrent 4K. Out of my friends & family on a few can see a difference, but if they can they do say T4K looks better, but only slightly. So weigh up if the 2x or 3x larger file is worth the improvement.

Sorry if I sound aggressive or preach-y, just trying to save a fellow sailor some space on their ship is all.

Wherever possible I use the XFCE defaults, as I basically turn Budgie into XFCE. So I use the XFCE-Terminal, and it's probably the most comfortable TE I've tried.

That's quite good of them to do that, I don't know much about Contabo but most cloud providers, in my experience, have been rather scummy.

Now time for 5x more Piracy!

Yeah that's what OP wants.

Endeavour is objectively better than plain Arch, this list is incredibly subjective.