It may not make it clear just by looking on it, but once you click on it or create a new workspace, it becomes a nice visual to help you remember which workspace you’re on and which ones you have available.
Pretty much everybody using a window manager already uses one like this.
I’ve been keeping tabs on Cachy for a while. I’d love to try it but I’m way too invested in NixOS. I eventually want to work on a project to offer these optimizations in NixOS and have a binary cache available for other users, but that would require a lot of storage and processing power since every single package would have to be rebuilt.
Thunderbird should be good for all of those, especially with the new interface. I’ve used it with Microsoft Exchange emails as previous jobs and it always worked well, but I also never did anything advanced.
I think they’re planning to release a mobile app as well, but for now I recommend K9 mail which they sponsor. It should all sync if you add the accounts on android.
It’s sad that you hate it. It’s good that you found a way to fight against change.
I will however admit that I didn’t consider Thunderbird ac an alternative for my email management prior to v.115. Now I find it finally not ressembling a Windows 98 email client and really like it.
imo i liked the fact that it looked like Windows XP-era Outlook (not that i used it), i just liked the simplicity of it and the legibility. With 115 now it just seems poorly put together.
for instance, the buttons for messages have now moved to the pane where your accounts and folders are, Get messages is now just a little cloud icon in the left, and New message gets all the spotlight for some reason. it just looks like someone just slapped things together with no rhyme or reason, it’s inconsistent.
i liked the prior spaces update because you could just hide it into a little toolbar. Now they have a bar that when you get rid of it, it just messes with the position of the window buttons. not a good look imo.
the issue with hiding the system window toolbar is that it puts a border around the window buttons, which is inconsistent with other programs. kind of a shame they did this redesign, as get messages and new message are now lopsided and send gets more piority. it just looks like it was poorly put together in photoshop or something.
and i kinda see what they were going for this redesign but honestly it’s too much imo, it’s trying to make thunderbird something it’s not.
after all we chose thunderbird because of its oldschool look, now they’ve kinda ruined it. still going to be using it though.
The AUR is a great tool. however I personally try to not install to many packages from it since many packages are outdated and you have to trust the maintainer(s) of the package which can be quite dangerous (especially for small projects).
Obviously the correct answer is the useless one that it varies package to package. AUR is a community effort.
In practice, I use a great many AUR packages and they work just fine. I avoid the AUR if there is an alternative in Core or Extra but much of the value of Arch is the AUR.
The number of AUR packages is not really a factor. You can have dozens of AUR packages installed without incident. A single poorly ( or maliciously ) crafted AUR package can cause problems.
Dependencies can be a problem. I used an AUR version of GIMP for a while ( 2.99 ) but it depended on GEGL and, at some point, the version of GEGL was not new enough and it broke. Overall though, issuers have been rare in my experience.
If you do have an issue, fixing it is typically easy. Arch package management is great in my experience.
I would stay away from Pamac ( from Manjaro but in the AUR ) and just use yay. Pamac breaks things. If you want more than that, try Pacseek.
Interdependency is a large part of issues; If you have an aur package that breaks but has no other packages that depend on it, you have a minor problem. If you have an aur package that breaks which many packages depend on, you have a major problem. Keep your libraries as unchanging as you can; out of AUR if possible, definitely not -git packages.
An AUR pkgbuild can also perform arbitrary actions to install the package, the security implication is obvious but many also miss that, yes as you install more AUR packages your system will diverge from the expected Arch state. Normally this is minor and fine, but it could trip you up here and there.
I love Thunderbird, but I wouldn’t recommend it for Microsoft 365. You can add the mail account via IMAP (if you turn off Security Defaults), but I don’t believe there’s a way to get Microsoft’s contacts and calendars to sync up, since they don’t support CardDAV or CalDAV.
It doesn’t support syncing contacts and calendars out of the box, but there are plugins that will let you sync both. I used Thunderbird successfully with MS365 in 2019-2020.
There are lots of AUR packages marked -git which would be the very definition of unstable.
On the other hand, the kernel modules for my wifi dongle’s drivers are only in the AUR and have been rock solid for 5 years.
It’s really a “if you need to ask, don’t use AUR” type thing. In debian-based systems, it’s the same thing with PPAs. The software is there if you need it, just understand that nobody is validating it.
What’s great about the AUR is that the Arch build system is a fantastic bit of tooling and is incredibly easy to use.
This was an incredible read; thanks for sharing! After I got over the gut punch, I’m finding it really difficult to be upset with RHEL. What are the essential things I want RHEL to do? I want them to provide their source code to their customers. They’re still doing that. I want them to contribute code upstream and to related projects. They’re still doing that. I want them to continue to advocate for software freedom. They’re still doing that. I get that the FLOSS community can be…shall we say recalcitrant?..when it comes to ecosystemic changes. And I know a lot of us view this as a Bad Move ™. But I just can’t muster up the anger. And I continue to appreciate all the positives RHEL and IBM have brought historically and continue to bring to the FLOSS community. Every change is a loss, and every loss has to be mourned, but I just can’t be angry about it.
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