No errors or output from the add?

I don’t see anything wrong in what you are doing assuming you have permissions but if it’s just for your user you can flatpak --user to install in your homedir instead of system-wide.

Also convenient for distro-hoppers as you can just share or copy the flatpak dirs between home directories so you don’t even have to redownload for every reinstall.

Hex Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mrmannwood.hexlauncher

Pie Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher

Similar approach in both of these

Best coupled with frequent refactoring and breaking of APIs so any community efforts at documentation are eternally outdated.

It’s more like busking on the street and then feeling offended about not getting any money despite people liking your music. Maybe you’re even inadvertently part of some commercial ad shoot profiting of the city vibes. Or offering free trials of a service and then being upset when nobody converts.

I don’t think things you do become “charity” just because others benefit from it and you don’t get compensated. The bar is higher than that.

No reason to expect that everyone will be in a position to do that indefinitely, especially when it comes to massive projects that turn into full time jobs.

For sure. No strings attached goes both ways.

At least Brave is open source, in contrast to Orion.

In this case they are apparently fine with a personal computer being used

Where? Looks ambiguous. From all we know this is a work computer provided by the employer. It’s more likely to be an oversight or deprioritized/neglected.

which makes RDP actually a slightly more secure solution

I do not see how that folllows.

If both the company and employee are indeed fine with the RDP, it should be no problem to get that confimed from IT in writing.

Separate your personal and work computer

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Important for security of both the employee and the company. Don’t mix business and pleasure. It’s the only thing that makes sense!

Put Windows and all work related software on a separate work laptop and use remote desktop from your Linux PC to do your job.

What? No! Keep them separate! This is how people get pwned. Don’t backdoor your employers machine from your personal PC or vice versa!

dnf --cacheonly

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I really hope the X11 session stays maintained.

Otherwise, KDE will finally have a reason to get get its MATE/Cinnamon equivalent

What should the fork be called? Surely someone can do better than “Plaxma DE”.

The first one I think is a fundamental limitation in that display preferences by default is per-user. Maybe this makes it work for you? https://feddit.online/post/1350756/comment/6636228

The 24h clock might be similar - check your system-wide locale.

Supposedly both the display manager and greeters have system-wide configuration for this purpose, however. And the issue with notifications and DE overlays are present post login, too.

Did you look this up?

What do you think is more likely - that KDE Neon does not have a testing version of Plasma Login Manager or that a sensationalistic news headline is not giving you a 100% accurate and complete understanding?

Things I’ve run into:

1. Out of the box, the lock screen comes on after screen unblanking - late enough that when things aren’t snappy you can briefly catch the desktop without reauthing.

2. Sometimes randomly after wake, keyboard input is not recognized in the password field at all. Except for Esc, which in this state appears to crash-restart it and makes it work again

3. With a multi-monitor setup, I have still not been able to properly force the primary monitor. Is an issue because things like notifications and the login input will only show up on a usually turned off projector. This one might be PEBCAK.

I have issues 1 and 3 with XFCE on lightdm, too, though.

Are you able to try it with other SATA drive models?

Are there any relevant BIOS Settings like “legacy USB” that could make a difference? Do you have the latest firmware for the motherboard?

I am referring to the ARM Steam Machine next to the x86 Steam Deck handheld.

It works. Go ahead, try it.

but is this currently the case

sorry, is what the case?

The reason you don’t hear much is because they usually Just Work.

And Steam shipping an ARM desktop alongside their x86 handheld.

OK?

I think 2013 gear and low-end hardware can still be useful in 2026. And that it can be win-win to give old gear a new home.

But it wouldn’t be honest selling stuff that can’t physically handle what a reasonable user would expect from a PC to someone who is not capable to install an OS themselves and doesn’t understand what the limitations are.

Not too dissimilar to marketing CMR HDDs as “NAS drives”, which I hope we all agree is a scam.

And just so I don’t get misread on that part, “HD” = 720p.