No I’m really really really lazy… and I hate source installs because you don’t get updates and need to do them yourself. So I guess I’m going to try to figure out how to make an AUR package. Being lazy sure is a lot of work 😅

That looks really cool !

(But I’m lazy so I’ll just wait for the AUR package 😅 )

All they need to know is basically “Just pick an instance close to you and be done, and if it ever stops working well just pick another”, which is the same thing as when creating an account on the Fediverse except that instances come and go a lot more.

So it would depends entirely on whether they can find the list of public instances easily… which is admittedly a problem 😅

You’re right about the website, there is a link to the list of public instances on https://docs.searxng.org/ but it’s a bit drowned amidst all the other stuff. If I was a regular user I would take one look at the website and run away really fast.

The Wikipedia page on SearXNG does link it, in the section about instances, but I’m not sure how many people would check the wikipedia page rather than the website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG#Instances

He probably means that people who want extreme privacy and would use such a tool would also not trust anything close source, even if it’s based on an open source project

Since you included decentralized solutions like Peertube, maybe add SearXNG instances for searches ?

Hey it’s not a dumb idea just because AI suggested it, ChatGPT probably just pulled that setup from somewhere on reddit I wasn’t saying it was stupid but the reverse : it probably would be too technical for me to set up and a bit overkill, but it’s tempting to try anyway. If you managed to do it it’s awesome !

System :

• zram (who says you can’t just install more RAM 😄 )

Terminal :

• kitty (terminal emulator)
• fastfetch (must take screenshots to show off every new Linux install, it’s in the EULA)
• zsh (thought I’d like to try nushell one of these days) with zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-completiions and zsh-suggestions
• GNU Stow (to manage symlinks, I store my dotfiles in a repo witch contains home, etc and usr folders, and I use GNU Stow to symlink them respectively to /home/username, /etc and /usr, that way all my config is in the same place so I can back it up easily and have version control)
• rsync (to sync backup folders)
• btop (system monitoring)
• clamav (antivirus)
• brightnessctl (for screen brightness control, but I should probably use brillo instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOaSS8nEQA)
• yt-dpl (for downloading videos from YouTube/TikTok/wherever else)
• ani-cli (for watching anime from the terminal, obviously a must-have for any Arch Mint user)
• figlet (to write text from fonts made of ASCII art)
• cpipes, asciiquarium, cbonsai, matrix for when I get bored in meetings
• hollywood and rust-stakeholer if I ever need to pretend I’m doing something productive
• lots of TUI apps from https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

General GUI apps :

• Sway (tiling WM) though I’d really like to try niri (instead of several workspace it has a single one of infinite length that you can scroll through)
• rofi and rofi-calc (app launcher that can also do a lot other stuff if you want like file browser, ssh menu, calculator, emoji selector, it’s very light and superfast), also rofi-emoji (emoji selector)
• VSCode (code editor)
• KeepassXC (password manager)
• lutris, steam, protontricks, ProtonGE (gaming)
• FontManager
• Ventoy (for making USBs with multiple ISO on them)
• LibreOffice

Internet :

• Waterfox + LibreWolf (web browsers) with the following extensions : uBlock, Consent-O-matic, DownThemAll, KeepasXC-Browser, Copy PlainText, Copy Link Text, EPUB Reader, Markdown Viewer Web Ext, Sponsor Block, Return YouTube Dislike, YouTube Anti Translate, CanvasBlocker, Font Fingerprint Defender, WebGL Fingerprint Defender (I had to give up on User-Agent Switcher because it causes me to be blocked on too many websites)
• qBittorrent (BitTorrent client)
• FileZilla (FTP client)

Media :

• XVview (image viewer)
• ksnip (GUI screen capture)
• Gimp (image editor)
• Inkscape (vector image editor)
• MPC and VLC (audio/video players)
• Libation (to liberate Audible audiobooks from your account)
• cheese (camera)

I’m on Arch so the package names might be a bit different

Oh that’s a shame, I hope they manage to improve it it woul be very convenient

I meant not too slow to load on a potato-grade laptop… Thunderbird takes a while 😅 I hadn’t heard of mailspring before, I’ll check it out thanks !

Lmao that’s what ChatGPT recommended after I ranted about all the email clients I had tried 😂

fetchmail/getmail6 to fetch the mails via POP3 in maildir format + a local roundcube server + CLI tool to still be able to read mails outside home but I thought I might be a bit overkill 😅

There’s so many cool rofi plugins 🤩

Yeah I should have mentioned it, the day I stumbled on rofi-calc and learned that it could deal with natural language thanks to qalculate I was floored ! I don’t know who came up with the idea by hat off to them

It’s a matter of perspective I guess. I’m not a fan of overkill security measures that get too much in the way of usability and risk creating problems for you, especially when physical access is a minor risk in most cases. I agree that having a Microsoft account to backup your key is a solution, but not a very good one since you trade vulnerability to a possible physical access that probably is never going to happen for the absolute certainty of your data being spied on by Microsoft…

Last commit to the nightly build was two days ago so it’s definitely still going 😀

rofi-calc is awesome. It’s so convenient to just press a keyboard shortcut you have defined and instantly being able to type or paste your equation, no having to wait for a complicated GUI to load, no clicking required. You can just pop it in whenever you need. Also it does unit conversions, instead of a math equation you can just type 10 inches to cm or 10 eur to usd or 100 celsius to fahrenheit or 100 to binary which is a huge time saver.

https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc

Besides, it’s rofi and rofi rules 😎

Data can’t be deleted

The developer doesn’t provide a way for you to request that your data be deleted

Not big fans of the GDRP I assume 😂

You mean it prevents people from writing the key on a piece of paper when they get the BitLocker message, then copy it on a text file once their session is running and throw the paper away or lose it later ?

There’s ReactOS, which is not Linux either and targets the early 2000s Windows versions. Though it doesn’t just look like Windows, it’s made to be compatible and capable of running those old Windows apps

https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/

There’s also Haiku which has the old Windows look, but prettier imo. It’s not Linux, it’s based on BeOS, and it’s still in beta so not fully usable yet, but it’s a pretty cool project

https://www.haiku-os.org/about/

Edit: okay none of those are actually Linux distros so it doesn’t really answers the op 😅

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The price difference does make sense, it’s the cost to cover therapy for the employee that was forced to preinstall Windows on a computer for the thousandth time