I’ve found the look of the UI to be an acquired taste, and maybe easier to swallow if you’re used to using open source stuff. But I’d agree that the way it works is, in places, almost unforgivably unfriendly.
But it’s the “almost” that keeps me using it, because there’s nothing else that works across the platforms I care about, even if the application is so, so difficult to recommend or “deploy” to users.
The last few OS releases will continue to get security updates, but new versions of the OS won’t support those models at all.
KOReader! I maintain my library with Calibre and browse its OPDS server through KOReader.
I’m not sure if you can show/hide like that, but as a workaround you can toggle auto-hiding with a qdbus command, and set a keyboard shortcut to run that.
I think OP said
if a window is fullscreen
as opposed to simply being maximized.
Ignoring the whole debate about whether to include system files in your backup, rdiff-backup sounds a lot like what you want. It stores your latest backup as plain files on-disk just like rsync, checks the box for incremental backups (older versions of files are stored as diffs, which you can easily browse with rdiff-backup-fs) and isn’t much different to use than rsync. That said, people will point out that you can make rsync do pretty much the same stuff using hard linking.
That’s awesome, I didn’t realize that ResidualVM had merged with ScummVM.
Don’t miss this entire genre: classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure games! Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle and Monkey Island are a few of the stand-outs for me, and they all run on Linux via the amazing ScummVM.
Same deal here. Text is too big, tool icons are just about right, brushes and patterns are microscopic.
Skipping the OS backup is reasonable, but you probably want to at least save a package list. Add something like dpkg -l > ~/packages.txt to your backup script.
I’d add Quod Libet as another solid GTK pick, though I’m happily using it on KDE.
You can still uninstall, or you can clear the data.
And in both cases the user data is gone. I’d call that the worst case.
There’s a setting to disable it, but it’s unfortunately hidden under “Expert mode.”
Downgrading can be dangerous, since app data meant for a newer version of an app can crash an older version that doesn’t know what to do with it. This doesn’t really feel like enshittification, just saving users from themselves by removing the danger button. It’s not like F-Droid is forcing everyone to use the newest version… old versions are still on the website, and they still let you easily grab an old version in-app if you’re doing a fresh install.
This may depend on browser but you can double-tap a paragraph to quickly zoom the page so the text is full-width. Of course there’s also pinch-zoom or reader mode…
Oh, good point. If I was being brand-proper I’d spell it “reMarkable”… but, lol, not doing that.
Settings/customizations file for legendary text editor vim. Remarkable’s comes with a lot of stuff built-in.
I was referring specifically to Remarkable-brand devices… but Kobos are nice too, with that company also being indifferent to aftermarket hacks.
Ctrl+F’d for this.