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Well, I don’t use a DE so your scenario of the new display not switching over right away is basically my life every time autorandr decides not to run on startup.

Hmm, I tried it out after seeing this but I’m not really much of a fan of the mobile-first approach. I’ve moved on to HortusFox and it’s more what I was expecting.

My wife is the one who’ll be using it though, so we’ll see if she likes it.

Okay? My other comment might help you then, you can change in the preferences whether to put your library in nested folders or not.

If all else fails, make a post on the MobileRead forums; there are lots of nice and knowledgeable book people there with tons of Calibre experience.

I’m not trying to get you to do something you don’t want to, so your wall of text doesn’t really make sense to be directed at me. I didn’t make Calibre.

Hm, well, hopefully my other comment helps you then. I don’t think there’s an automated tool for this — though a shell script might do the trick, or at least get you most of the way, if you have basic scripting knowledge.

Have you tried Kavita? I use it to read comics and e-books on my Android tablet and my Kindle Paperwhite. It also uses OPDS so it has compatibility with some reading apps too, like KOReader, FB Reader, Mihon/Tachiyomi, Moon+ Reader, etc.

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1. Open the Preferences in Calibre

2. Click on “Saving books to Disk” (found under Import/Export)

3. Make sure “Save cover separately,” “Update metadata in saved copies,” and “Save metadata in separate OPF file” are all unchecked.

4. Adjust the “Save template” to the filename format that you prefer. You can use variables as folder names so, for example, {author_sort}/{title} would put everything by Stephen King in a folder titled “King, Stephen” and each book would be inside of a self-titled folder.

5. Select all of the books you want, then click the floppy disk icon and save them to a temporary directory.

6. Delete the old library, then import a new library (with the new filenames) from the temporary directory.

7. Delete the temporary directory.

Or you can just use symlinks. :P

No thank you.

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Yeah, I know that, that’s why I picked it for her.

I found it really easy, but I was pretty familiar with the terminal on Windows. I started off with Debian in December and set up LMDE for my wife a few weeks ago and it was dead simple, though I do have to be her tech support since she’s not really a computer person.

I thought it would be a pain to install drivers and Steam and all that, but it wasn’t. I did give up on trying to set up my printer, but I’ll revisit that eventually.

I think, as a Linux beginner also (~10 months), the best way to learn the terminal is to figure out what tools are useful to you and then read the manual pages or [application name] --help (if the application supports that command). Learning how to use grep will also be really helpful for troubleshooting, since sifting through logs is such a pain.

Like if you want to download a YouTube video, install yt-dlp and then type man yt-dlp into your terminal to learn about how that tool works. You can do this for basic utilities too, like cp, dd, mv, etc. and other applications you have installed. You can also use yt-dlp --help but that won’t open in the parser, just the terminal. Learn by doing things that are relevant to you and branch out from there.

There are also applications that will let you read the manual pages outside of a terminal, like xman, if you find that useful. After a certain point, you’ll be able to write commands with switches/arguments without needing to check what they mean first.

I’m aware, that’s why I specifically phrased it as a consideration and not, like, “wow, those people are dumb and should switch to Linux immediately!”

Again, if you feel a certain way about my comment and think it said something it didn’t, that’s not on me.

I even said this software is a good thing for people using Windows.

I don’t recall where I said everyone should or can switch. I said they should be considering it. If you’re feeling pressured that’s not on me.

I fully expect a Windows update to break this somehow. Good for this dev though and it’ll be nice to have this software out there. Hopefully they don’t have to fight against Microsoft’s bullshit just to grow a user base.

Anyone who uses this should be considering switching to Linux though. Maybe that’s the dev’s long game. :b

Yes, and so I am no longer using it. :b

Honestly, I just kept some distros on a USB disk with Ventoy (amazing software for booting ISOs from USB) on it and booted them up repeatedly until I felt comfortable and found my favourite.

I really don’t think waffling around on Windows trying open source alternatives is the answer. Look up what the alternatives are, then boot up a live image and download them. Try them. Then switch if you like it.

This is coming from someone who used Windows from 1999 until 2023 and planned a transition to Linux over time (about a month) using a spreadsheet. It really doesn’t have to be complicated or difficult; I’m not a programmer or anything, I’m just a former Windows power user.

From my very basic understanding (I have only been using Linux since December), AppImages are single-file executables (kind of like a portable application) whereas Flatpaks are somewhat “distro-agnostic” packages that are sandboxed by default. They’re sort of different ways of trying to solve the cross-distribution compatibility issue.

I like Flatpak better on desktop just because it’s sandboxed and creates a menu entry automatically. It’s generally easier to update a Flatpak too, but a dev could implement an auto-updater in an AppImage release if they wanted to. IMO, when a Flatpak isn’t available, AppImages are fine, and you can extract the files from them with the --appimage-extract argument if you want to see what’s in there or edit a config.

She might adjust to LibreOffice, it borrows heavily from the MS Office UI. I think it’s also available on Windows if she wants to try it before switching. Sims 4 works great on Linux too.

Cool. My wife switched to LMDE yesterday, so that’s one more into the fold.

So then why do they think that they must support every distribution? You would think they would jump on the chance to switch to Flatpak. The reasoning is ultimately pretty poor, so hopefully this isn’t a shitty cover for some other decision like layoffs.

Many of us at LightBurn are Linux users ourselves, and this decision was made reluctantly, after careful investigation of all possible avenues for continuing Linux support.

If y’all use Linux, then how the fuck do you not know about Flatpak, or even AppImage? Christ.