Wires:

• Ethernet over preferred over WiFi for non portable desktops
• Audio gear : wired will sound better. Bluetooth headphones have batteries that almost certainly aren’t repairable.
• Peripherals, in the sane vein. I just don’t get having to charge a keyboard or mouse that sits on my desk all day.

Ah, okay. I thought OP was referring to a thinkpad/thinkcentre

What’s a thin client?

Not sure if niche, but I use Arco Linux instead of the alternatives like Endeavour, Manjaro, or plain arch.

Why? Its easier to setup than straight Arch. Manjaro was all over the place when I tried it a few years back. Arco, right from the ISO stage, let’s you configure exactly what you want, with a handy guide on their website.

But the thing that keeps me loyal is the excellent community. The maintainer himself responds to most of your queries on telegram / discord (not FOSS reeee) and he’s very active on YouTube as well with no nonsense guides and walkthroughs. Shoutout Eric Dubois

Sorry, I meant optimisations for KDE Connect in particular. It has a persistent notification enabled as well.

This just stops working on either my Linux laptop or my phone randomly. I’ll need to kill the process and restart it Does anyone know how I can fix this? Battery optimisations are turned off on the phone.

Manjaro is a distro I’ve given up on. Broke itself twice for me. I much prefer Endeavour OS or Arco (shout-out to that excellent community)

“Michelle Obama is a man”

Thank you for the detailed reply. I am not too bothered with PS and the rest working natively or with gpu acc (I don’t do advanced work) but I’ll save this for later

I’ve had instances where the system breaks,usually when I don’t update for a while. I don’t want to face that on my ‘stable’ machine

Always the high seas for me and corporations

I do use krita / gimp on my laptop for quick edits. I’m not a professional by any means, the time sunk into learning these in depth isn’t really worth it for me.

Will take a look at this as well.

I’ve found the package manager to be infuriatingly slow

Namida. It’s excellent and the only thing I wish it had was a bitrate display

Xnconvert for some of these tasks

Oh damn. It was at auto, which I assumed was 100% (the lowest value)

I set it to 100 manually and it looks a lot better, thanks!

The UI is horrendously large on my 14 inch 1080p display too

A good general rule of thumb is to avoid the E and L series, and stick with the X, T or P series, or the X1 Carbons. Depending on your use case, choose one with the processor and display you want.

I have a T460 with linux on it that I use for work and it has been rock solid even when I spilled coffee on it.

I’m losing it in the hospital corridor lmao