for one time transfers (e.g. friends phone) I use warpinator.

if I own the device I use scp/rsync.

to keep files in sync I use syncthing

Yeah, autocorrect isn’t great with technical terms. I meant systemd. I followed Arch’s instruction, and just enabled the services via systemctl --user enable syncthing.service

i use syncthing, and start it via the systems service. i found it reliable. systems has a feature by which you can get notified on error (look up the onerror key), you might be able to do what u need with that.

alternately, you can run a systemd timer that runs periodically and notifies you when your condition is met. if u want a pop-up, use zenity etc.

lol. never created a slashdot account…

I’ve used both element and elementX. element supports rendering math formulae, which elementX doesnt

i switched right after win95 🙂

I heard two talks around 2001 or so. one by Wolfram, after which I swore never to use mathematica again. and one by stallman after which I switched completely to Linux and never went back to windows.

still on Linux 25y later. went from days when getting sound working was a challenge , to today when even obscure tablets work out of the box.

started with red hat. used Gentoo for about 5y. then debian for 10, and now arch.

went from the old “crux” and metacity, to openbox to fvwm to gnome to kde plasma

i remember the old days I was envious of Mac users for transparency and the present windows features, and I ran this utility called Skippy that would screenshot windows and present them… all these features are now built in to the wm now, so no tweaking needed

honestly on single user machines I uninstall a display manager. autologin on console, and put a few lines in my zshrc to start my wm automatically

IIRC u need mlocate or plocate…

why is the American chemical society joining with Wiley and elsivere?

what desktop are you using? on kde/plasma, go to the power settings and it gives you an option to run a script when the battery is connected/disconnected

u can use that to systemctl --user start/stop syncthing

i use syncthing all the time on some 100gb of data. it’s not much of a battery drain. ymmv

I’ve used both and completely agree.

i used fvwm for some 20 years. but when I switched to Wayland, I had to change window managers. I tried gnome first because it was the default on more distributions. works great as long as u use it as is . any customization is hard and needs gnome tweaks or some other extension…

kde plasma was just as light weight and completely configurable

I would love to have content indexing with full text search in files and emails. I used to run namazu / notmuch mail to index it (back when I would fetch it using offlineimap). But sadly my mail lives on an IMAP server now and isn’t searchable locally. And Baloo was simply taking too long to index all my files.

I’m really surprised that an indexed search takes roughly as much time as a directory search. I guess it shows how much the filesystem and tools have evolved… back in the day, a full tree search through even 10GB would be slow and noisy…

Thanks; KDE integration is a big plus. But I haven’t been tagging or rating files … 🙄 so several of these queries are not useful for me. A fuzzy matching based on the whole file name seems to best fit my workflow… and there doesn’t seem to be an option to fuzzy match, or match on the whole path in Baloo.

I was hoping dumping a long list of matches to fzf would give me a performance gain (because of Baloo’s indexing), but right now the performance difference seems negligible.

My images etc. are on a separate partition (300GB, not indexed). I certainly have tonnes of data in .git folders, which fd ignores. But the exclude_folders setting in baloofilerc seems to ignore most of these by default.

I agree metadata and context makes a huge difference. Looking at my work flow, I’ve put all the data I need into the file names 😄. The metadata is borked for most of them cause many were download some 20+ years ago. So I put the author names and title into the filename to make it easy to search…

Unfortunately the full path is ignored by Baloo. There’s main.* file in several folders; the parent folder name is ignored by Baloo search, so I dump all Baloo results to fzf and search there…

honestly I think you’re better off trying to figure out how to get it all done in one distro. two other vms hogging resources in the background is not something that can be optimized well. but two applications in the background can be optimized excellently by the os

but that said, keep us posted on what u do and how it works out…

honestly, it’s going to take a lot for me to switch distros. i had Gentoo for 5y. finally ran out of time to compile and dispatch config. used Debian for 10y. finally bought a new machine where I needed latest Wayland, kernel and drivers, and Debian testing didn’t cut it. switched to arch.

to switch now id need something essential that absolutely can’t be done in arch.

thanks for this. I’ve been using xournal since 2006, and switched to xournal++ maybe 7 or 8 years ago. didn’t think I would ever switch again. but rnote looks like it’s good enough for me to make the switch.

1. strong defaults. most things did what I wanted without me having to configure anything. i configured xournal++ a lot

2. invert brightness!! i basically start a new file everytime I had to switch from dark to light with xournal++. with rnote I can just hit the invert colors button…

3. better handwry, zoom, drag, interface

arch.

though honestly the distro doesn’t matter that much, as long as it supports the majority of your software stack. almost everything is in the big distros (arch fedora Debian), so just pick whatever ur most comfortable with…

i must say I like the rolling release of arch. and the fact that it’s very up to date…

can u boot Linux of a USB? some USB drives give 1000mbps read so should be nice and snappy for a root fs