Dariusmiles2123

Hi everyone! In the next year or so, my project is to rip all my blurays and put them on a 4tb external USB hard drive. I’ve already done it for all my DVDs, but I still have to buy an external bluray player in order to finish the job. My budget for the bluray player is CHF 75.- used, so around 75$. All this is done through MakeMKV. Then, I’d want to have a small Linux PC that I’d use as a media center. My budget is under CHF 100.-, so around 100$. I’ve noticed that you can get 2014 MacMinis with i5 or i7 for that budget, but I’m open to any other brand. What I’d want the PC to do: -Play all my movies stored on my external USB drive. I don’t think I have 4k movies, but I can’t exclude that some of my Blurays will be 4k in the future -Display my family pictures and videos stored on kDrive (a cloud by Infomaniak) through Firefox and WebDav -Play my music on my Yamaha Amplifier through Firefox and Tidal -Use the wifi for updates, browser based stuff, etc… The PC would probably not be used for anything else for now, but it needs to be able to become a desktop PC again in the future if needed. I’d want to operate the PC with a bluetooth mouse and only have to use a keyboard from time to time. I’ve heard about Jellyfin, Libelec, Kodi and other stuff but I don’t really know what they are. Thanks in advance for your advice!

Hi everyone! I’ve been enjoying Gnome for the last 5 years, mainly in Fedora Workstation. Lately, I’ve been feeling a scratch to try something else after a few annoyances with notifications or the file manager. I’ve also been using KDE in Steam OS on my Steam Deck, but something doesn’t feel right even if I managed to reproduce my Gnome workflow in it. I thought that Cosmic could be the perfect middle ground and I wanted to dual boot it alongside Fedora Workstation on my second computer, an upgraded Mac Book Pro from 2012. As I enjoy Fedora, I downloaded the Fedora Cosmic Atomic version. On this computer, you normally have to enable RPM fusion to get the broadcom drivers for the wifi. I followed the instructions related to os-tree based systems with no luck. Then I thought, let’s just download the normal Fedora Cosmic as I don’t need an immutable distro and the commands should be the same as for Workstation. Despite, managing to get the Broadcom drivers, I never managed to get the wifi working in Fedora Cosmic. I might be stupid, but I don’t understand why as it’s the same distro and just a different DE. Doe’s anyone have an explanation? It might be a sign that I should just live with the minor annoyances I get in Gnome, but some things looked really good in Cosmic and I’d love to dual boot it for a while…

Hi everyone! I’m a 90% satisfied Gnome user only looking for more customization possibilities. I had tried KDE on a VM, but, since I have a Steam Deck (Steam OS), I thought I should try to fully make it usable as a computer in case I’d need it. I kind of managed to recreate the Gnome workflow where you switch between workspaces. I’ve also set up kwin rules telling, for instance, Firefox to open on workspace No 2 on startup. I don’t know why, but that doesn’t work for 2 of my main applications. I use Evolution mail and it always starts on the wrong workspace. Same for OnlyOffice, but for this one I can’t even create a kwin rule as I don’t have that option while right clicking on the far right of the app. They’re bot installed as Flatpaks. I wanted to take a screenshot of the issue, but Spectacle doesn’t allow me to take a screenshot when the right click menu is open… Also, Evolution can’t seem to remember my passwords despite allowing them to be saved in the keyring. Since I have around 10 calendars, it means entering 10 passwords at startup… Suffice to say that my experience with KDE isn’t great so far even if I’d really want to try it a bit more… Does anyone knows how to solve these issues? Thanks in advance! Edit: In the end, using alt+F3 did the trick in order to apply window rules to OnlyOffice (but not to Evolution) and I switched to Thunderbird for my KDE install in order to avoid the keyring issue