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Are you using UUIDs instead of absolute paths ?

Try it, it is free. It is the online implementation of OnlyOffice

Like I’m used to GIMP and can’t do shit in photoshop. That doesn’t mean the UX is good though, just that you got used to it and are not willing to change.

You can use cryptdrive, it’s on par with google docs spreadsheet.

LibreOffice UI is really… well… old. UX is really bad : it’s on par with GIMP’s ideology of “make it as hard as possible to get things done”

Microsoft Office suite is obviously superior to its concurrents. If it were available on linux I’d use it, despite being about FOSS ideology. Sometimes, non-FOSS can be better alternatives. However, OnlyOffice is still neat and gets the job done.

Well… That was a shitty article.

It’s not clear… Do you want a portable USB drive ? If that’s the case it’s easily doable with Arch or Fedora.

If you want a portable USB that you can modify AND flash then… It’s a little more complicated. You can always make a bootable Arch USB then rsync in any existing drive but it seems a little complicated.

What you might want to do is create a simple install script. You can pretty much do it for any distro. It will consume more bandwidth than copying/writing an existing distro but will prevent MANY errors.

With Arch it’s quite simple. I believe it might be as simple with Debian or any other distro.

I tried ubuntu touch but am afraid I had to go back to Android because the web browser wasn’t having it.

I don’t know about the rest but I would advise caution.

You can. Be aware that using one home partition for numerous distros is not recommended because of config files conflict. You can however symlink between home partitions.

In any case, since you use SSD, don’t forget to enable TRIM 😉

Okay first question is : is MATE absolutely necessary ?

If not, I would advise you to switch to a distro that uses GNOME or KDE. I’d go for Zorin OS which is really perfect for anyone beginning on Linux.

In any case, I have a solution that should work no matter the device. It requires you to have libinput and libinput-gestures installed (rather than fusuma which I found buggy and laggy)

You can find it here : https://lemmy.one/comment/2189433

I tried my best to make it beginner-friendly — even if it is not. Don’t read the first paragraph which is KDE specific.

How vile !

GE is Glorious Eggroll, a FOSS contributor to proton that put his own tweaks.

Looks promising ! I really wanna try it

This is no help, I know, but… OpenSuSE behaves weirdly. On my old laptop every distro would work, exception made for SuSE who wouldn’t even boot from LiveCD.

So, maybe it’s one of those weird SuSE quirks…

If you use KDE with wayland, then :

• You can switch desktops horizontally with three or four fingers
• You can only switch desktops vertically with three fingers
• By default, four fingers vertical opens present windows or something like that

To be able to use four fingers swipe up, you need to disable present windows first. Go to settings > workspace behaviour > desktop effects and unclick desktop grid and present windows (in the hope that you have no use for them)

Then you need to install evemu and libinput-gestures (if you’re on Arch, it’s in the pacman repo and the AUR respectively)

Once you have it installed, run in your terminal evemu-record. It will list all of your devices. Shut down the program with Ctrl + C and look at the event for your keyboard. Once this is done note it down.

Create a new file

nano sendkey.sh

Copy the content of this code in the new file but replace EVDEVICE=/dev/input/event4 with your keyboard.

#!/bin/bash
# sendkey.sh

EVDEVICE=/dev/input/event4

for key in $@; do
    evemu-event $EVDEVICE --type EV_KEY --code KEY_$key --value 1 --sync
done


# reverse order
for key in $@; do
    evemu-event $EVDEVICE --type EV_KEY --code KEY_$key --value 0 --sync
done

Ctrl +O then CTRL + X to save then quit nano. Once it is done run this command : chmod +x sendkey.sh then open the gestures app and start mapping away. The interface is very intuitive. What you want to do is click on the little + at the top bar then select the motion you want to bind (in your case swipe + up + 4 fingers) and in the command at the bottom you write /home/YOURUSERNAME/sendkey.sh LEFTMETA W

And there it is. You can map pretty any keybind to any event with this. Hope this helps.

libinput-gestures IS a game changer.

Please note that if you are using KDE wayland, some defaults are set and cannot be overriden, which is frustrating. You might have to use X11 session instead.

If you really want to use wayland, libinput-gestures will not work with ‘xdotool’ and most of the other gestures reader will be slow. In that case, you might want to use a program called evemu. It’s not… intuitive.

If you need help on this, don’t hesitate to reply to this message. I’ll gladly help. Not so long ago I was walking in your shoes.

Tried it, did not understand it (and had no use for immutable packages). Went back to Arch, never looked back.

You know where to go, BTW