Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things

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  • I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.

    You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.

    In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)

    I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.


  • cmus is great for music

    mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.

    beets for sorting music

    nicotine plus for looking for music

    syncthing

    zathura

    improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box








  • If I’m correct, that would mean that technically, I could authenticate to an SSH server without supplying my name if I use a private key?

    Yes.

    The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well? If yes, I don’t see the need to hand that info to an SSH call. If no, how does the SSH server know which public key it’s supposed to use to challenge my private key ownership?

    Most of this can be found reading through different Git docs, whether from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, etc. When using Git you can use different keys for different repos/forges and each has a defined pair, similar to accessing different SSH servers that require specific key pairs. I do understand your questions, but I lack the finesse to explain it since I really only use SSH and Git for my blog and not for anything too complicated.



  • I don’t feel like my system is bloated.

    It probably isn’t bloated.

    I guess it’s subjective, but when do you consider a system to be bloated?

    If someone is testing out several different DEs or WMs and installing meta-packages, then I suppose I might say that things are bloated because they could end up having multiple apps to control the same preferences along with different libraries, etc., and then when they decide to update it takes ages. That would be bloated for me. I have tried the minimal stuff before. Like you said, hundreds of packages, not thousands. But, I didn’t install any manpages. So when I decided I wanted those manpages the number of packages ballooned. Nothing was really bloated, just a number on neofetch going up.






  • Strawberry if I had to have something visual with buttons.

    cmus right now because it loads my rather large library in a split second. mpd works great as well.

    More important than the player for me is sorting, though. Beets is my saviour. I could never sort the 5 or 6 albums I get by hand and tag them by hand.

    I used to like deadbeef as well, quod libet is great. There really is something for everyone when it comes to something for music. If only there were as many great email clients.


  • You can achieve this through graphical utilities.

    Self-updating apps aren’t a big thing on Linux, so the Windows way isn’t an option…

    The signing key is important for security reasons, so you definitely need to add that. After adding the repo you can just use Synaptic or whatever app store thingy Ubuntu uses.

    Most of the time you shouldn’t need to fiddle with the command line and the apps you will need are available through the Software Centre and the entire process will work like on Windows.

    For me, Linux was the first operating system I used that had an app store or software centre and I was pretty glad to not need to…

    • open a browser,
    • navigate to a site,
    • (hope it is the right site…)
    • download a binary executable,
    • open a file explorer,
    • launch the binary,
    • click through a list of options and agreements,
    • and finally delete the binary.