Idk what is “kitchenowl”, but yesterday I had a situation where I need to create a github issue (well, I needed a software developer know about something, and the software is only hosted on github).

I created a new github account, created an issue, logged out and saw that my issue isn’t there. Turns out my account was flagged. I tried to reach support, but github asks to enable 2FA for this. Added an authenticator.

Turns out, you still can’t reach github support until you add and verify a phone number via SMS. No way I’m giving away my phone number to microsoft.

So, it’s not possible to reach the support, there is no email address, and I can’t create issues. What a joke. I wish people in FOSS community stopped using github.

In the end, I just found the dev’s email address and sent them an email.

I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.

I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.

I’d say the stopping thing is a few multiplayer PvP games with anticheat, also some software that won’t work in Wine (adobe products, corel products, microsoft products).

Yes, I know alternatives exist (Krita, Inkscape, LibreOffice). No, they are not 100% drop-in replacements. I for myself love working in LibreOffice Writer, but when you work in a place where everyone except you uses MS Word and expects DOCX files, you can’t “just” switch to linux without issue.

Is it somw kind of hug of death? I’m getting 403 forbidden.

IMHO it’s the best PDF editor out there, idk why Adobe is considered the standard PDF software when it’s so terrible compared to PDF XChange. XChange editor has every possible tool I ever needed, you can move around objects, change text, move and rotate and crop pages etc. It’s just so good. You can’t even edit text in adobe acrobat properly because it will break the text layout, in XChange you can if you’re careful with fonts, spacing, indents etc.

It’s miles ahead of adobe acrobat and works in Linux as well, I know it’s proprietary and pursists will hate me but it’s my go to tool when I need to do anything serious with PDF in both windows and linux.

Others have already explained about PDF not being easy to edit and lack of FOSS tools.

The only advice I can give is that PDF XChange editor works well under Wine if you have it.

Then it won’t update.

Please let me know when APK is in izzy droid. Yeah I know about Obtainium but tbh I hate to use it when f-droid is available instead.

Can you tell me more? Is it FOSS? Is it electron? Is it a UI for a folder of markdown files? Is there a native android app? What is “native” syncing? Do I have to pay for some kind of cloud?

In case anyone is interested, AppImage won’t launch in Q4OS 5.8 (debian based distro), errors are GCC_13.0.0 not found and GLIBC_2.38 not found (which is surprising, I thought appimages ship all required packages together.

Thanks, gotta try this!

Well, there’s Markor on android, so even without a dedicated android app, I can use Helix Notes + syncthing + Markor on the phone and ditch obsidian if it’s good.

Yeah it’s free, I just meant “foss”, I didn’t mean to say obsidian isn’t free.

Also I use syncthing, so I don’t care about built-in sync as long as it’s just a folder of files on my file system.

Do I get it right that this is like Obsidian, but free and open source?

How does it compare to Obsidian? Does it have note linking using square brackets?

Not to be rude or anything like that, where I’m going is not the “we already have obsidian, why you made this” but “currently obsidian is one of the few non-FOSS things I use in Linux, would be happy to replace obsidian with this if it’s a good substitute”.

I don’t use obsidian plugins, so I understand that HelixNotes doesn’t have this whole plugin ecosystem and can’t replace obsidian for people that rely on plugins, but for me it’s fine.

Is android app coming?

Not to soud rude, but how is your “best DE” thread different from thousands of other “best DE” threads where everyone already gave their opinion? There’s plenty of “opinions” on “best DE” online.

Flatpak:

Sucks

User:

Comes to linux community to complain

Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn’t work for you?

I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.

Could you help me with GPU passthrough?

I technically have 2 GPUs in my laptop, one integrated into intel CPU and one discrete nvidia (so called “optimus”). Is it possible to pass nvidia while keeping intel for linux DE?

I tried to read some tutorials but tbh they all leave more questions than give answers.

Gnome can’t ship a config to disable secondary selection because there is no secondary selection.

Nobody is removing it?…

Never even thought of that, but this is genious.

Maybe using ctrl for that is not the best decision, but I understand this was just a showcase. I wish this actually existed and was used in real desktop environments.

Apps?

These are websites.