Victor

I mean, I agree completely. I chose i3 back in the day to get tiling windows, but also specifically to get my system as lean as possible to only run the things I needed. So I definitely made a conscious choice. As I did with Niri recently.

I just feel like it should be easier. Like you start the dbus daemon or whatever, and then that’s it. That should be it. There shouldn’t be anything left to do after that IMO. 😅

But I mean, I know how to search shit on the Internet, and read docs. I made it work. Others might struggle though, coming from Windows e.g. like I did decades ago. I have a big headstart.

Would be neat if it wasn’t necessary to do that though, of course. 👍 I didn’t need to do that with i3 for some reason, e.g. Feels inconsistent.

Whatever it does, it’s something that must be added manually in your compositor’s startup commands, or in your shell’s init file.

I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

It’s very annoying also that you need some weird systemd command incantations to make it detectable by environment variables when using Wayland compositors or X11 window managers that aren’t full desktop environments, in combination with XDG portals.

I struggled so much getting dark mode running well with darkman. And screen sharing with Niri. Hhhrg.

Also any year that someone switches their main desktop to linux is the year of the linux desktop for them personally.

Agreed. I’ve made the same argument myself, fully on board. I had my year of the Linux Desktop two decades ago. 😄

I just… As long as we don’t actually take it seriously that “this might be the year of the Linux Desktop” and get disappointed that it isn’t — by some unknown metric (seriously, what’s even the definition of the “year of the Linux Desktop”?) — then it’s fine. 😊👍

I love the enthusiasm but I think we should honestly stop chasing “The Year Of The Linux Desktop™️”. I think it only serves as a depressant.

Let’s just keep focusing on making Linux great for experienced and new users alike. 👀

Really. I moved away from Ubuntu when they forced Unity on us. 😅

Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance.

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

Well that’s comforting. 🙂👍

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Can you show me one example of me picking a single fight?

I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

Image of “Entering Anaconda” sign taken here:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9zSYnPMwwLsZE7i97?g_st=ac

Felt like geo finding for a second. 😅

“👍”

[Down votes anyway]

https://mailfence.com/

One more second of searching. 🤷‍♂️

Look, I made a comment on your comment, just to be informative, and that’s a purpose that adds something. You can say it’s not all you want, but somebody might find it informative to know that those two aren’t the only options.

It really does sound like you took it personally, I’m sorry, but it does.

I’m just saying to anyone reading your top level comment: “other options are available”. I know this post is asking for recommendations, but recommendations should be in top level comments then, IMO.

You’d think someone would be happy to learn that there are more options. 🙄

https://signalvaultprivacy.com/secure-email/best-secure-email-providers-2025/

First link on duck duck go. Tuta and Proton are in the list, but there’s 5 more. 👍

challenging

Yeesh, they weren’t kidding