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  • Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren’t the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.


  • Yeah, I have since discovered pCloud as a replacement for OneDrive and that I could just have everything saved to a pCloud directory to auto-sync… but IMO UpNote is worth the $25 anyway so I don’t mind. Also it requires considerably less effort to just install the android app vs setting up some kind of multi-device syncing with pCloud/equivalent and managing that myself. I guess I value convenience over privacy in this one area.

    Thanks for the explanation re:gollum/zim, I was curious why you were using 2 different sets of software to accomplish what seemed like the same thing. My notes are definitely more of the ‘scribble some shit down and organize it later if I get around to it’ variety, but I stopped using zim because I wanted synced notes with multiplatform apps and also it felt a little archaic, and I wasn’t really using the real star feature of wikis (cross-linking) anyway, I just wanted something with a traditional tree structure.





  • UpNote. I use it like a combination of the gollum wiki described by OP, but I just put everything in there. I have watch and reading lists for things I want to check out, writing projects, notes for TTRPG games, I keep extensive notes on healthcare-related stuff, and so on. I like UpNote because it’s lightweight, has windows, linux, and android apps, and because it has a one-time $25 lifetime membership that does free syncing forever instead of a monthly subscription like most other things seem to. I’ve tried OneNote, Evernote, Obsidian, Joplin, AnyType, and a bunch of others and didn’t like them for various reasons, but UpNote is both pretty small and also has a pretty full-featured editor that can do rich text, all kinds of formatting, media files, etc.

    The only thing I’ve run into that UpNote wasn’t ideal for is I started writing a novel a couple months ago and managing the structure and notes and all that got a little unwieldy so I picked up Scrivener. Still wish they had an updated linux client or there was some good, complete, feature-rich linux-native equivalent, but it runs pretty good under wine, so.










  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoLinux Gaming@lemmy.mlEndeavorOS
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    5 days ago

    For sure! I thought I was just going to be boned because of the GPU issues I had because ‘lol buy a different GPU’ just isn’t practical and the end of service life for Win10 is coming up in a few months and I was really not looking forward to moving to 11.

    Honestly I’m not even ‘enjoying’ the OS, it’s gotten to the point for me where it’s just the way things are now, it’s kind of become just a fact about my world. There are a couple things I miss from Windows (reliable Phone Link being the primary one, I hate typing on my phone keyboard and KDE Connect SMS/Pushbullet/etc don’t always get SMS updates and such, but also something like Stardock Fences), but mostly it just works.


  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoLinux Gaming@lemmy.mlEndeavorOS
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    6 days ago

    I used Pop for a bit and didn’t like its DE either, and also it hated my GPU (a bog-standard RTX3060) for some reason. Got frustrated, tried a bunch of Ubuntu-derived distros that either wouldn’t install or installed and wouldn’t boot (also GPU/driver-related issues, apparently), got fed up, and decided to try Nobara about a month ago on the basis of it being a gaming-focused distro with frequent updates, and I have been quite pleasantly surprised. 95% of everything I’ve tried just works, the rest requires a bit of fiddling but isn’t too bad (had to install battle.net via Steam rather than Lutris for whatever reason, f.ex), I even got my novel-writing software running pretty well under wine. At this point I haven’t booted back into windows in weeks and I think I’m just about ready to start tearing down my windows install and converting my other drives away from NTFS.