Well, this is my first time hearing Betterbird
After reading their feature table https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable I think they have a really laudable goal.
I’d suggest to check the feature table first. If there is anything you concern, you pick Betterbird. Otherwise, you can choose one randomly :)
This is annoying, while there are a few things we can do
“just browse the internet” doesn’t indicate that you don’t need a powerful computer in 2023. Modern browsers are really heavy - and rendering websites are much more complex now.
Unless you’re really frugal about your PC budget, I think it’s definitely “to-go” for 32G
I’m also mounting them into /home/user/data while I don’t think hard-coding the user name in the mountpoint is a good idea. Besides, it needs the assumption that I’m the only “human-user” of this computer.
I may also mount them at /opt/data, but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea
I had been using WSL2 for about one year. The experience was terrible compared to a Linux host. (Sadly I can’t change the system on my work laptop). However, it was much better than Cygwin, msys2 and powershell - based on my experience.
If your host OS is windows and you’re interested in Linux, I think WSL2 is a good way to have a try
IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work
Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?
Can I install .deb software too?
I don’t think rpm-ostree could support .deb softwares, just like dnf/yum can’t support deb packages.
Can you share your use case for trying to install a deb package in Fedora? I’m just curious.
And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?
Good question. I only have a few computers, so I had never considered about it.
While I’ve looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks, which is fine for “apps”, but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.
No. Your understanding to Fedora Silverblue is wrong. I can just run rpm-ostree install package.name in Silverblue, like other Fedora spins. The small disadvantage is that I need to reboot to apply this update. (re-construct)
but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?
Well, you can call it snapshots, but there is no need to think about it. In most cases, the system points to the newest snapshot (deployment 0). If a rollback is needed, I can pin to the older deployments. When a major change is to be applied (Like bump Fedora version), I’d manually mark the current deployment as dont-auto-delete.
Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.
I never used toolbox in my Fedora Silverblue system. I feel that I can’t tell the difference between using Silverblue and the default Fedora spin
How about creating an app password? It may let you by-pass the 2FA https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#
My solution is not ideal:
I created a directory, called ~/config_sync. I create sym links for config files, like ~/.bashtc to ~/config_sync/bashrc
However, I need to record the sym links I’ve created, and repeat this process on new machines
I think Fedora finds a good balance that
Can you share the details of your procedure? Besides, which distro you’re using?
I’m using Thunderbird for my outlook.office365.com email account which is managed by employer. It works perfect.
However, it’s also possible that your administrator has different server settings, denying the access of Thunderbird.
TLDR, I think it worth a try
KDE Connect: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
I also use Resilio Sync. It’s not open source software, but it’s self-hosted https://www.resilio.com/
There are also open source sync services, like nextcloud or syncthing