I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it’s powers and use it.

So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others…

So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it’s very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

It’s been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.

1. Inoreader
2. Bitwarden
3. uBlock
4. Sponsorblock
5. Dark Reader
6. Font Changer
7. Stylus
8. Markdownload - web clipper
9. Lasttab (Alt_Z back to last tab) A. Violentmonkey B. webcompat.com reporter C. Wikiwand D. YouTube Redux

TTIME (abbr - not alias)

abbr -a -- ttime date\ \'+It\ is\ \%-H\ \%M\ and\ \%S\ seconds\'\|espeak\ \>/dev/null\ 2\>/dev/null # imported from a universal variable, see `help abbr`

Generic shortcuts - F6 and Ctrl+L both get the URL selected. Ctrl+C can copy - switch window and paste.

Alternatively, if the windows are both open you can drag the Padlock icon (certainly with Firefox) to your field.

Well yes… Ctrl+L then Ctrl+C gets it.

Just disable it!

You know, do Ctrl+N then type 'about:config` and then (just a stroke of genius on my part) type ‘pocket’.

• extensions.pocket.enabled

And if you can’t manage that, I’d stay away from using words like ‘useless’…

I never noticed that it gets shovelled after a browser update (update = new version).

That’s certainly a huge improvement IMO

🤣

Nobody can help because nobody knows what software you’re running.

To check Firefox, you go to about:profiles and create/test a new one.

To fix your Operating System you go to your Operating System FORUM and put in a well formatted request for assistance.

Some Firefox people are also over at https://fedia.io/m/firefox so go try there.

FYI: I opened your link and it plays perfectly in Firefox.

Woah.

TLDR

Nobody here heard of FEEDS? You know, RSS? https://i.imgur.com/kMlWxuP.png

Sure, use it to post to Lemmy.ml - there’s a nice challenge.

This is a bit of a pointless question. Also, not quite making sense… because ‘workflow’ can mean absolutely anything.

I enjoy using Dolphin (KDE) because I have a terminal window at the bottom (F4 toggles it) which is tied to the GUI - so if I do ‘zi’ to jump to one of my video, or document folders, then the GUI follows… best of both worlds… and it means I can manage almost as well without the GUI, though not quite so well without the terminal.

You should aim to do things the most efficient way, without predetermined ideas about whether to use GUI or terminal. I use terminal to listen to radio, but not to edit pictures or videos.

When you get to your desktop, certainly start with a terminal open… I like Kitty - easy tabbing and splitting means I can do tons of stuff in the one window.

You learn by using, researching, and learning. That’s how you can get better. You can also do a lot by trying different shells - for example, I run Konsole (with ZSH) and Kitty with FISH - so they’re quite different to use, and each has benefits.

Your choice.

• PWA’s aren’t really a thing. Linux, we has a nice ‘Progressive Webapp’ manager - so I can create PWA’s with launchers for any website, using any browser. I think I have about 4 (Shopee/Lazada/Translate/PlexWeb).

9/10 times I just open the bookmarks in Firefox…

• Not sure what your issue is with Bookmarks or History - but they’re perfectly usable. Perhaps you’re just fixed in your ways.

• You can turn off Pocket. Even when it’s on, it’s not a problem - but Firefox has to have some revenue channels and many folks don’t have any problem with Pocket. I use RSS, so I don’t.

This is the way.

Unfortunately, if you don’t already know the answers it’s more a question of experience before you’ll understand them.

When I started with Ubuntu I couldn’t do dualboot, so it was hard. It got better with each update, but my beloved Gnome2 desktop was threatened and Ubuntu went on to Unity - KDE sucked, so I jumped over to Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.

Whilst it was great, I had terrible issues getting software - PPA’s are often suited to Ubuntu and not Mint… so in the end I tried installing Arch, failed twice, then got a Manjaro (Cinnamon) ISO and tried that for a few days, got some snapshots (rsync to my HDD) and then figured it’s not a big deal to install KDE, as it’s easy enough to go back.

KDE was so much better by then (about 5 years back) that I’m stuck with Manjaro KDE - having access to the AUR to install stuff is awesome, and flatpaks work at the flick of a settings switch too.

Dual-booting gives you the luxury of (if you wanna play Genshin Impact) having the option to boot into your game OS but also the ability to install games on your Linux OS and decide which one runs best on your hardware.

Everyone has such varied ‘needs’ that your question is impossible to answer - you must just suck it and see.

That’s strange - though I don’t use Windows. Generally I upload images to imagr to paste links, but images generally paste straight from the clipboard…

I always found most of Opera’s extras to be adding stuff that doesn’t really need adding… maybe look at alternative clipboard managers or something (I use CopyQ).

No issues here - not for a long time now.

I’d say with confidence that this is something with your USER data - maybe settings, maybe extensions, maybe something got corrupted. The first test is with a fresh profile, the second test is with a freshly rebuilt (via sync) fresh profile.

To test:

1. about:profiles make a new profile with your name. If you have a `/chrome’ folder you can copy that across. 2.Open that in a new window, and test it (maybe just add your password manager and sign in with Google). If that’s good, then synchronise the new profile.
2. See how it goes.
3. If good, delete the old profile and bring back add-ons as you need them.> nodium

I have no issues, using uBlock (disabled only for a few private sites I wish to allow ads) and a rake of YouTube (Enhancer, Sponsorblock, Dislike etc).

Whenever I mess with a new profile, I will generally copy my Firefox folder to create a duplicate on desktop, then I can experiment by moving stuff into the current profile - to restore bookmarks, history or whatever else.

I have hourly snapshots, so if anything messes up it’s easy to reboot back to the last hourly snapshot… YMMV.

Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the ‘Home Theater’ app died it’s death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!

Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that’s so awesome… though now it’s dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).

After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA’s made for 'buntu often don’t work) it’s like a dream.