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As the browser is by far my most used app, I find that bookmarking the current tab and describing the task with no more than a few words or even as little as a few chars, to be a good way to keep track of what things I need to do soon. For things I would get to later or whenever I feel like it, I'll put them in Firefox's "Boookmarks Menu" or "Other Bookmarks" folders, and have lots of folders consisting of Reddit posts and searches about different topics.

Hello world! I am seriously new to the world of linux (fleeing from windows after all the shit they are doing now), so please forgive my ignorance.

I have an old ThinkPad with Mint on it - installing it was about as far as I could get without training wheels. I'd like to use it as a media station with TV as a main screen. Where should I go to do so?

I need to operate it with an airmouse or wireless keyboard if i really have to, and my wife should be able to as well.

Some further requirements:

• it should support a few subs we have, like Amazon, Netflix, Disney+ and maybe more in the future (I'd rather have less, but the family WANTS IT ALL!!!);

• ideally it should switch on with that airmouse and load directly into that media shell without OS being visible.

• the next step would be to have it access media on my old NAS and show it as a separate source. I think this should be easy enough, if the above works.

Ok, now shout at me with all your wisdom and tell me this is the wrong community to ask and I should google it all! ;)

Hey everyone, I've just recently started dual booting Bazzite, which I've been using as my main OS for about 6-7 months now, and CachyOS, which I just installed a week ago. I'm really liking CachyOS, but I currently run Plex media server in a Debian distrobox container on my main Bazzite installation and I'd like to be able to have access to the same watch history etc on both Bazzite and Cachy.

Can I just install distrobox in CachyOS and point it to the proper data directory that already exists in Bazzite? If so, where are the distrobox files located? I've already done some searching and couldn't figure out the answer by myself so that's why I'm asking here.

If that's not an option, is there a way for me to migrate my Plex data to a docker and access Plex media server that way through both distros? I really don't want to reset all my watch history again, as I share this with both my brother and mom and I've already reset the watch history twice by once reinstalling Windows and then again when I switched to Linux.

I also don't know how to use docker, so any information about getting a Plex media server set up properly in docker would be appreciated. I've been using Linux for a decent amount of time now and have learned a lot, but I definitely still consider myself to be a noob to Linux. But I'm 110% open to learning, I just need to be pointed in the right direction or given some good advice on how best to proceed to meet my needs.

I know that ideally, I would be using a separate PC to run Plex media server, but I don't have the money to buy a secondary PC to serve exclusive server duty, so I run it off my main PC.

Thank you in advance to anyone that can help, all replies are much appreciated!

Yes, I know that the ranking is not a good metric of real world use.

Just posting this because MX Linux has been in the number one spot for a long time (2 years perhaps?) and it's surprising to see some other distro on the top of their site.

https://distrowatch.com/

Ever since stickermule kinda bought them out, it's been shit. So hard to find the sticker packs. Where are they? If I can't find them, where else can I get the sticker packs?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22949658

If I'm interpreting this correctly, many MP4 patents are going to expire next year. 🎉

Right now is the best period of time yet for Firefox-based browser, especially when most alternative browsers are Chrome-based.

While there are a bunch of forks like Librewolf and Palemoon, they provide features mainly for power users like hardened privacy and tweaked user-prefs. A year ago the only fork I knew of, based on recent stable versions of Firefox and added productivity features on top was Floorp. I was very surprised at the hype and sudden popularity of Zen Browser in the past few months and have been curious why it grew so much faster than Floorp which has been around for much longer, look at the Github star graph: https://star-history.com/#zen-browser/desktop&Date. Zen Browser currently has 19.3K stars while Floorp has 6.1K.

Reasons I can think of are the following: heavy promotion of the browser by the devs and community on places like Reddit along with emphasizing its 'zen' philosophy, really fast development (it now has way more features than Floorp), and the Zen mods store, where you can install CSS mods.

What are your thoughts and reasons for Zen Browser becoming so popular so fast? (while its not mainstream, it did grow fast in among Firefox and power users)

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15554016

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The survey aims to find folks favorite projects within the following categories:

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• Best Desktop Environment
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• Best Power CLI Tool of 2024
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This is a yearly survey hosted by Jupterbroadcasting folks, LinuxUnplugged in specific.

I'm looking at buying a new laptop which will run EndeavourOS exclusively, no dual boot no modding no nothing.

The choice is either Lenovo or MSI (neither have NVidea grahpics and both have intel i5/i7 chips with integrated graphichs).

Which brand is likely to be more Linux friendly?

There's also an option for a Asus but again i'm only looking at whether i'm likely to run into Linux issues, the specs are virtually the same for all.

Ive been trying to get this to work on Ubuntu and it seems to not work. Has anyone tried Nyxt?

I think the problem with btrfs is that it entered the spotlight way to early. With Wayland there was time to work on a lot of the kinks before everyone started seriously switching.

On btrfs a bunch of people switched blindly and then lost data. This caused many to have a bad impression of btrfs. These days it is significantly better but because there was so much fear there is less attention paid to it and it is less widely used.