Good to see so many planned improvements. One thing I’d like wish for (and seems to be rather forgotten) is improvement on accessing and editing contacts. Right now it’s very cumbersome in the browser, let alone that there is no way to access it from the phone.

Would be happy to share feedback and testing if you need detailed user experience reports, @Nelizea@lemmy.world

I’ve been using linux on and off for 20 years and docker reignited my interest for running linux. There’s plenty of good guides and free courses, if you need help finding one - let me know and I’ll send you a YT playlist.

One thing protonpass does better then the competition is exporting your passkeys that is generated within it. AFAIK, bitwarden supports creating and authenticating with passkeys, but you cannot export them.

What’s wrong about it?

For those intrested, I created a !surfacelinux@lemmy.ml community here on Lemmy to collect information regarding linux on surface devices. Mods and contributors welcome!

!surfacelinux@lemmy.sdf.org Ping @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca @-spam-@kbin.social @TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.ca

I want to start with Btrfs and snapshots, is there a good, beginner friendly tutorial for those coming from a ext* filesystem?

Oh, you’ve been missing out on a lot of “fun” 😄

What circumstances would that be? I can’t see the use case doe this, but I’m open to see how and when that would be needed.

This article is two years old, and perhaps discord have improved their accessibility, since this user find it more accessible then matrix. Yes, it’s a single usercase, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

I think there are other arguments against Discord that haven’t been mentioned: data privacy. I know there was an instance where Discord collected user without their consent, and that is enough for me to avoid the platform.

I much rather use matrix or the horridly old IRC protocol than Discord. Or forums. Or just plain old issues!

There’s plenty of good terminals out there, the question is what features that you need in it?

As for syncing configurations, check out a dot file manager such as chezmoi unless you want to sync over bare git.

Many have already mentioned Obsidian, I too ventured to it from Joplin and couldn’t be happier.

Other (FOSS) tools I use for productivity… GUI tools:

• nocodb - a web-based database which can be accessed over API too
• I’m keeping an eye on vikunja.io, hope to have it mature and implement more features regarding project management
• paperless-ngx, make order of your paper-mess.

CLI tools:

• Fish - a very nice and modern shell
• chezmoi - a really nice dotfile manager
• lsd instead of ls, dust instead of du, zoxide instead of cd
• kopia - awesome backup tool. How backup is related to productivity? Disaster recovery ;-)

I see @joojmachine@lemmy.ml already answered some of your questions, but regarding “why would hardware work differently on fedra”, I assume it has to do with what kernel is being shipped, and what drivers that is also shipped with the distro by default. Sometimes drivers aren’t shipped due to legal reasons, and a distro can be shipped with a kernel that dosen’t have certain support for certain hardware.

I jumped ship from Ubuntu to fedora last year and fedora is awesome. Fedora has a bit newer packages and the default felt right (albeit I missed system tray plugin from Ubuntu). Some hardware work better OOTB on Ubuntu, so always try with a live distro first.

Another fish and modern Unix user 🫶

PS. Try out lsd if you haven’t already - a nice ls/eza/exa replacement.

Certain surface models run linux fine, but I wouldn’t recommended it as a linux laptop as it requires solving several issues before you get a working computer.

That is so awesome. Do you still have one lying around? Those things have an awesome form factor, but the I/O ports are a little bit dated by todays standard 😅

Once the drivers got into the mainline kernel, running Linux on surface has been a dream. Except for using the pen, IR-cameras, booting from USB…

I think there’s enough of us to have a SurfaceLinux community here :-)

I had one of those too! Sturdy little guy, reminds me a bit of the first eeepc 701 :-) But I was worried about the replacement of the charger once it would die. Besides, I have had a bad experience of Surface-line longevity, they always seem to die suddenly after a while, so I sold it.

OMG! I didn’t even know about this, thanks! Will look into it, would be awesome to have ps command spit out things like I want them by default :-)

I don’t care much for the terminal, but I noticed that I care a lot about my shell and the tools I use in it.

And the prompt - can’t live without my ASCII bling-blink.