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Isn’t the gtk version of the xdg-portal suppose to do this?

(I don’t use gtk, so I’m not sure)

At least Framework disclosed this issue and are pushing out fixes.

Seems most of these Wintel boxes are Intel Celeron/Atom based, so it should be able to run just about any Linux OS.

Or, if it’s not just a faulty file, but a faulty firmware release, don’t update to this version.

I wouldn’t count “selecting a different theme” as customizing. But yes, seems we do agree.

I have to disagree.

The inverted cursor is part of the default Windows mouse cursor themes.

@OP I don’t think it’s a default on any Linux Desktop Environments though. But you might be able to find a theme that does this. Perhaps a relevant forum post, that mentioned a keyboard shortcut to quickly locate your cursor.

If you got it second hand, could it be a defective touchpad?

I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney on my Ubuntu laptop on Firefox all the time. I have a laptop setup in front of my treadmill just to watch shows while I walk.

Are you watching in regular 1080p or above, or the gimped 720p most DRM services impose on the Linux platform?

If it’s 1080p+, how? If it’s 720p, that’s not really acceptable to most people.

I think the point of OP is that Streaming services don’t care about Linux and downright gimps them, so the apps will “look better”. Casual users won’t know or care about the technical reasons.

And where does it download the newly installed package from? It’s not in your cache, because you haven’t had it installed before and the remote server only has the newest version.

The remote server only has the latest version of the package, and the latest version is always built against the dependencies on the remote server. So if you didn’t update the database, then your pacman -S command will fail, because it can’t find the package version on the remote server. So you did not install anything.

No, pacman -S package is safe. Because the package list is not updated this way, and therefore the system is not updated and nothing else is affected. New packages can be installed with this command, perfectly okay. That is in the spirit of Archlinux.

If the package is not in your cache, it needs to download it from the remote server first. The version on the remote server is built against the dependencies on the remote server. So if your local dependency is older, it will be a partial update!

But -S package is not upgrading the package. Installing with that command is supported. That is NOT a partial upgrade of the system. -Sy package is considered a partial upgrade, because that command updates the package list.

I disagree. The -S flag stands for “sync”, which means sync the local version with the remote version. So if there is no local version it just installs the remote version. This is still a partial update, because any dependencies it might have, that you already have installed, might be the wrong version compared to the one the newly installed package expects.

pacman -S should be discouraged because of this. The correct one is pacman -Syu for installing new packages.

Wouldn’t du -hs * only check the space used inside the folder you are in?

I’d check with sudo du -hs /* myself if I wanted. Or ved ncdu to get a visual representation.

Yes, it’s the first line in the excerpt. Not really sure why it needed to be repeated in a comment too. :)

The main difference between Plex and Jellyfin is the network setup. Plex takes care of that for you, while you have to set it up your self with Jellyfin. Another difference is that Plex can combine content from multiple servers ( I think. I’m not a plex user, so I don’t know for sure), while it will always be seperate servers in jellyfin.

Jellyfin will always have my heart though, because it’s open source and not here to make money. Plex also have a reputation to show ads and other stuff from streaming services.

Another codec, that will take a decade to get widespread adoption and hardware compatability. /sigh