I love fossify calendar.

It's important to be libre and open source.

If someone claims somefhing without source, you cant trust it.

Kdeconnect / gsconnect

Windows, macos, all the same. I want a free device. I love donating to KDE. How could I love giving money to microsoft?

Microsoft is more difficult for me nowadays because I use it very rarely. I hate that nothing works as expected. I hate that they force everything upon you.

We are free. We are GNU. We are linux.

Firefox was first

Confirmed by me

A company sprinter

Idea: ditch rpm and start using containers.

Nextcloud is slow and clunky if you run it on a banana.

Run it on a "normal" server and everything is smooth.

Hopefully I'm not too late. This is the first of your posts that I see.

It is always a great idea to list awesome opensource apps. And most importantly keep the list up to date.

This should not be a one person task and keeping a megathread up to date and readable isn't that great.

There are "awesome lists". Anyone can create an awesome list. It is a curated list of apps or services, often maintained on github for easier collaboration.

Following are two of those

https://github.com/binaryshrey/Awesome-Android-Open-Source-Projects

https://github.com/LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-android

Privacyguides should always get a mention when talking about recommendations since they curate their list and state why they choose this or that app and service. Its primary target is privacy but opensource is important for that as well https://www.privacyguides.org/

In short, if you are serious about it, create a repo somewhere and begin writing and listing. Or, contribute to other lists.

Thy for the heads up.

Sad to see it go

Great write up, thanks!

You can use the bangs !arch or !aw to search the arch wiki, e.g. !aw kde.

I don't think dash to dock is a must have extensiom. The workflow of GNOME is different to other opersting systems. That's why GNOME boots into overview and not the desktop. The overview is there to launch an app or switch to it graphically. When you boot the system the first thing would be to go into overview to launch an app, hence it boots directly into overview. Removing dash from overview defeats the purpose of it.

But "hot bottom" is important otherwise you have to move the mouse into the upper left corner in order to move the mouse to the bottom to launch an app which is nuts.

I don't like the philosophy of "if they do it, it's safe". But I couldn't explain it in one sentence either. Not only debian but all big distros have systemd. Not having systemd is such a nieche that you shouldn't bother with it as a beginner.

Snaps. You don't provide info why snaps are bad. The snap store is centralized and canonical controls every part of it. Moreover, I've never read that snaps are reproducible. Flatpaks are technically reproducible. And we all want and need reproducible builds because then we don't have to trust but know that it's the original and published source code.