Haha thanks for the idea!

That actually makes a lot of sense. The image building simply should be really easy if you can just pull the already made image and just add the file.

There is an example to install newer python, do something and uninstall it again (which I wouldnt do).

Thanks, I will try to do that. I think HeliumOS has a future as a ChromeOS alternative

I am on a Chromebook and that is a recommended script. There are really just a few functions in python 3.11 that are missing in 3.9

Breeze. The best.

Made it work on GNOME, which of course means CLI

I.e. Universities using Windows-only Software and you might have to get a Windows License anyways.

But when buying used Laptops, they are mostly always with a Windows license anyways.

You can extract the Windows Key with an App from the Microsoft Store.

Not yet fixed, no motivation

No not a part of the OS and als no idea why they used python, that script is full of crazy functions so may be needed.

I translated the python 3.12 to 3.9 using ChatGPT lol, as even after installing up-to-date python and placing it in my home $PATH the script threw errors.

I think it worked, but there is an issue with my atomic system, so I likely need to build an RPM for the changes or use a different command for akmods or package the kernel myself or whatever.

So “nix install” means placing a nix binary somewhere in my user $PATH?

~/.local/bin you mean?

;)

Yes I tried that, and got like 6 different solutions to do this so I will see :)

Loooool

I thought there was no rpm-ostree but there is.

Well, lets layer some stuff!

I tried to get install instructions for home-manager and they only had them if you are already on nix?

I didnt get it

~/.local/bin ;)

But yes, great idea.

I found a script online that installed the tar archive. For some reason that version of python still wasnt used, and invoking it with python3.12.6 or something didnt do anything

DEs dont use mount and fstab, they use udisks2 which works with polkit, GUI prompts or rootless.

Using udisksctl prevents a ton of breakages.

I dont know about how autostart files work anymore, I always thought just place stuff in ~/.config/autostart but now those dont work anymore on KDE, sometimes.

I think you use your init system for that. If you go fully rootless, you can create a user systemd service that mounts the drive.

mkdir -p ~/flashdrive

cat <<EOF > ~/.config/systemd/user/flashdrive-mount.service
[Unit]
Description=Mount flash drive on /dev/sda
#After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sda --mount-point /home/$USER/flashdrive
RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl --user enable --now flashdrive-mount.service

Not sure if After=multi-user.target and WantedBy=multi-user.target twists the space time continuum or something.

I am always kinda confused by those targets, as you must state one.

Yes GIMP works too, kinda.

But stuff like writing text fields and moving them around is just horrible. The text doesnt behave as expected at all, formatting is always lost, moving instead grabs something random from the background

That works really fine in Inkscape

I recently did raster graphics editing in inkscape instead of GIMP, simply because GIMP is often pretty unusable. Worked out really fine!

your language abbreviation like “de” or “en”

No. Kubuntu now has a non-broken KDE Plasma. Fedora 41 has a slightly improved Plasma 6. CentOS Stream 10 with EPEL 10 will have Plasma 6 too, which is a huge step in “being something I could consider switching to”.

Finally!

Nice, thanks!

Thorsten high is silly haha. Emotional is also not meant for TTS more for research I think.

I think thorsten made the only good model in German, I really want to make my own one! Or get some famous people on board?

Hahaha yes it is.