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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
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Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Slackware doing nowadays? Last release was several years ago, but I need a replacement for Win 10 on my PC.
Why Slackware specifically? You can install any distribution. I use Gentoo btw - not really a distribution so much as a distribution construction kit. There are other popular distros, notably Arch.
I liked Slackware a lot way back when. No deeper reason.
Currently leaning towards Debian Testing, but that might depend on my testing of Slackware now. I use Arch daily in WSL, but I've have had enough breakages that I don't want it as my primary OS.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#83KDE Connect has been my answer to Apple's Airdrop for the last couple of years. It's an excellent program; I even use it on my Mac for file transferring with my Steam Deck
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why Slackware specifically? You can install any distribution. I use Gentoo btw - not really a distribution so much as a distribution construction kit. There are other popular distros, notably Arch.
I liked Slackware a lot way back when. No deeper reason. Currently leaning towards Debian Testing, but that might depend on my testing of Slackware now. I use Arch daily in WSL, but I've have had enough breakages that I don't want it as my primary OS.
I use Debian 13 (stable). It is very solid. I was using Debian Trixie when it was testing and there was breakage twice.
I would make the /boot partition twice the size the installer suggests though as on my laptop I can't upgrade the kernel because the /boot runs out of space. The laptop is used to view old manuals in PDFs while working on my car so I don't really care.
TBH any of the major Linux distros that have been around for a while are fine. I don't like Fedora or Ubuntu because they are a bit corporate.
I personally wouldn't bother with any of the derivative distros. Typically there isn't a lot different other than they've pre-configured some packages. IME that causes more headaches long term.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Slackware doing nowadays? Last release was several years ago, but I need a replacement for Win 10 on my PC.
Slackware’s last release was 2.5 years ago. Look at Fedora (if you like RPM distros) if you’re after something pretty nicely put together that stays reasonably well up to date. Very well maintained. Influenced by Red Hat (or “led by” or even “owned by”), which works for some, not for others. CachyOS is trendy these days. EndeavourOS is basically Arch with an installer. There are a few distros targeted at Windows refu…
Arch has an installer these days. It works pretty well and you can have a system up and running in about 20 minutes if you have a fast internet connection.
For people that want a Windows like UI, I would probably suggest Cinnamon. It works pretty much like Windows 7/10 without all the visual nonsense that KDE typically has.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#86The branding does a major disservice to this application - it works like a charm on my windows and i3wm setups, having no trouble sharing a clipboard and files. There are very few features if any that only work on KDE. Sometimes on windows it needs a click of the refresh button to get going after connecting to a network. The discovery is wonky on some platforms.
KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion (the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything KDE works outside of it)
> the DE has been called Plasma for ages
I disagree.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s pretty dreadful on iOS, presumably due to OS constraints. I miss how amazing it was on Android.
...then why use iOS? Get a de-Googled Android and relish in the power a pocket personal computer can provide when the vendor takes its thumb off the scales.
I don't need software freedom preached to me, thanks. And I'm not going to waste time trying to prove my free software bona fides to you.
Suffice it to say: at the time I bought this iPhone 12 mini, there weren't really good options when prioritizing {small form factor,good privacy posture,good security posture,software freedom}.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#88This is a killer app. There have been times when I asked someone "why can't you just send me a screenshot on signal" or "Oh, can't you copy the URL to your desktop?"... only to realize that the poor fellow didn't have KDE connect (yet). It's not perfect, but it does things I haven't found anywhere else, makes your phone and laptop and pc. It might help that I'm actually running KDE everywhere, of course.
I have a all my messengers running on my desktop as well, so I don't really have those problems. How's KDE Connect superior?
I'm seriously interested, since I read it's a killer feature but I cannot really imagine how it would help me.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion (the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything KDE works outside of it)
> the DE has been called Plasma for ages I disagree.
Its been plasma since 2009, a year after KDE 4 came out and they rebranded a bunch of their projects. Whether 16 years amounts to "ages" ig is up to interpretation.
Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion (the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything KDE works outside of it)
> the DE has been called Plasma for ages I disagree.
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