Have you tried changing what the applets do when you click? Most of the time you can set whether it should create a new instance, cycle windows or raise or lower existing ones from the applet settings. See if changing that could help?

I use XFCE/Budgie (flick between the two) so not too familiar with cinnamon.

XFCE doesn’t support Wayland yet, however a lot of the components will run under it. They’ve got a tracker on their site.

To be fair, most users are just gonna go the new user route. Download the Fedora media writer, set it to download and flash Fedora, boot to the stick and install.

I was a decent ways into my Linux experience before I learnt about Ventoy, but I don’t use it as I prefer flashing a whole ISO. There’s no hand-holding once you leave Mac or Windows, so you have to count points of failure yourself, Ventoy wasn’t worth it.

I suggest you take the normal new user path, and after that start trying things. Learn to walk before you try running :)

Really depends on what you want your system to be, if you want a lightweight system choose a barebones distro like Arch, Gentoo, Void or any server spin such as Fedora Server. Then, during installation you only get what you need. If you are going lightweight you’d probably want something like Sway WM, Hyprland or XFCE.

If you don’t care for minimalism, then choosing a distro focused on a graphical interface such as Fedora Workstation will be much better for you, since that distro will be maintained with the idea of users using whatever DE it is, the distro maintainers probably contribute to upstream of the DE too. Support will also be easier since you’ll find that these distros, while maybe having smaller communities, those communities ask more questions and get more solutions due to the Linux inexperience.

Linux is not a prerequisite nor is it a required side effect of digital privacy, sure the two go hand-in-hand thanks to FOSS but you can have one without the other.

Red Star is a Linux distro, but it’s the embodiment of the antithesis of privacy.

I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don’t get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It’s good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I’m good. Anyway, it’s obviously free to create an account so there’s no risk in case your setup isn’t supported.

Apart from that, they’re brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can’t comment on customer support since I’ve never needed it.

For the services you’ve specified, that’ll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that’s with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.

Agree, call me unreasonable or whatever but I just don’t like Rust nor the community behind it. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel! Rust makes everything complicated.

On the other hand… Zig 😘

I think Gravitricity (obligatoy, stupid name) is trying to make it more space efficient and consolidated, rather than occupying massive amounts of land.

Water also isn’t the safest thing when in massive reservoirs, nor is it all too easy to get it there in the first place.

So while you’re correct in the sense that we have GPE batteries, they aren’t super easy to build nor maintain. I think this is where [stupid name here] is trying to place themselves.

Yeah I’m aware of Spotify’s 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I’ve got that’s fine. Thanks :)

Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It’s just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

That was looking really good, however it doesn’t seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I’ll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who’s into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

If you ask me, I say Hetzner is a seriously underrated provider. I love using their services. Cheap as chips too.

First time I’ve heard someone call Gnome Software fast. In my experience that app feels like it’s on it’s last legs; the Flatpak CLI is far better than any desktop GUI.

This screenshot is from the Flathub website. The only good GUI for Flatpaks…

Same, I almost cringe when I see someone using one. I just see an unorganised mess of packages :P

For Atomic users, you can rebase to F40 and it’ll run the Beta/Prelease.

Yeah, my 5800X3D works perfectly; absolutely zero issues. I’m guessing it’s making use of the 3DvCache since I don’t notice any performance degredations compared to Windows.

When my DE, Budgie, supports it. I’m not too bothered about using it, with a beast monitor and a high-end PC I hardly notice the X.Org quirks.

I’ll take it as when Budgie is ready to ship a full Wayland-only experience, I’ll be ready to use one.

Like my auto-installed Copilot doesn’t launch?

Wait… I don’t think that’s an issue.

For some context, I’ve got a Windows install that I primarily keep around for VR gaming which I remove Edge from. That Copilot thing is the only “issue” I’ve noticed.