I find the GNOME workflow very intuitive and have grown really accustomed to it over the years. It’s minimal and gets out of the way, while at the same time everything I need is accessible on one keypress through the activities overview.
I don’t feel at home on any other desktop environment. Even on Ubuntu I revert everything to stock GNOME.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve only used flatpak and I honestly see no reason to try anything else. The only issue I’ve encountered is that Steam games launched by the Steam flatpak occasionally act strange (sometimes they can’t locate graphics drivers or connect to online services).
… *“So for Plasma 6, we have removed them, to steer people towards better options.”*Things that I don’t want to hear from a software projects that supposedly respects my intelligence. I don’t want to be “steered”.
Darktable if you want to do professional photography editing, and GIMP if you want to modify graphics, pixelart, design flyers or handouts, posters, or whatever else you want to do in a raster editor.
I have been using GIMP since fifth grade in school when we had an intro to photo manipulation, and since whenever I needed something edited, composited or designed. It blows my mind again and again that people online apparently find GIMP hard to use or unintuitive. It’s one of the most normal programs I have ever used. Photoshop on the other hand feels utterly inconceivable to me.
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