Did you already find this?

https://github.com/thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink

I use this one professionally, yet to come across a PC that wouldn’t boot from it.

And yeah, you won’t benefit unless the PC also has both fast ports and fast storage.

But half of the time I’m using it to move files from a customers old PC to their new one, and more aften than not, even the old one has at least one quick usb C port.

Sure.

But that’s limited to SATA 3 speeds. A “mere” 600 MB/s. Not to mention SATA SSDs often can’t sustain their theoretical maximums.

USB3.2x2 can do 2500 MB/s, and with heatsinks on an NVME drive you can actually reach and sustain that transfer speed.

When you’re moving more than 500 gigs of something, or if you move ISO sized things often, it’s really nice.

When I occasionally have to write an ISO to usb for macOS or when ventoy for some reason wont work, I get annoyed at how I actually have to wait a bit, even though my thumbdrives aren’t slow.

They’re just not NVME with a heatsink fast. I’ve gotten used to moving ISOs around like they’re text files.

True. But if you have an old one laying around, from a laptop, desktop or whatever, even a low end one will saturate usb while beating 2.5" hdds.

Or if you want to install an entire iso in less than a minute, one of these.

I really like that one. I can move a terabyte in minutes, and unlike some other M.2 enclosures, this one is a heatsink sandwich, which enables sustained full-speed operation.

ZoneMinder?

Flathub and the AUR are by far the most comprehensive, and flatpaks works on a lot of distros. So I checked those.

They’ve also been getting their kinks worked out over the last few years and work much better than they used to.

That review you found is two years old and was for version 1.1. Current version is 1.4. Try it out today, if it’s been fixed leave another review letting people know. It seems to work just fine for me, but I haven’t used it before.

Material Maker is on Flathub, the AUR, and on Snapcraft (not up to date, but you shouldn’t use snap anyway).

No need for a manual install.

You’ll find a lot of software is available via package managers. Linux people don’t like installing anything without it being managed by a package manager so the installation and subsequent updates are automatic and occur alongside system updates. So when people find software they like, they’ll go out of their way to package and distribute it for others as well

Yes. But you didn’t.

Knowing what something does is important.

If you install a piece of software expecting it to do something it actually doesn’t, that can leave a security gap.

I wasn’t just correcting you. I was making sure you knew that if you install a “firewall” it won’t do the thing you’re looking for.

As for an actual answer, most distros will already ask you to confirm if you try to run a random appimage you downloaded.

But you shouldn’t need to do that in the first place. On linux, there’s not really any need to go running random programs downloaded using your web browser, since you can just download software from trusted reposotories that aren’t going to host malware to begin with.

Unlike on windows… You don’t need to risk it in the first place.

And I’m telling you a firewall won’t do that.

It won’t have anything to say at all about something you download and run.

It’s a completely different security feature. It handles potentially malicious network activity. Not software on your computer.

oh with the firewall saving me from myself I meant if I download something thinking it’s safe but isn’t

A firewall would not save you from that.

A firewall stops random incoming connections. But if you download and run something bad, that’d be an outgoing connection, since the malicious program is then already on your system.

Almost everything you do on desktop linux is already “outside the core os”.

This is mostly relevant for server software configuration, where you should run services with as few system privileges as possible. Preferably you isolate them entirely with a separate user with access to only the bare minimum it needs.

This way, if a service is compromised, it can’t be used to access the core system, because it never had such access in the first place. Only what it needed to do its own thing.

By default, nothing you run (web browser, steam, spotify, whatever) should be “running as admin”.

The only time you’ll do that on desktop linux, is when doing stuff that requires it. Such as installing a new app, or updating the system. Stuff that modifies the core os and hence needs access.

Basically, unless you needed to enter you password to run something, then it’s already “outside” the core os.

Oh good. Mobile github just not showing everthing again.

It doesn’t have a license yet.

So very much WIP on the way to becoming FOSS.

It seems your point is to shit on KDE, in contrast to MacOS. But since you don’t actually know the current state of either, you’re just making a fool of yourself.

Good day.

And has been the MacOS way for a while now, too.

What was your point, again?

It is.

That MacOS doesn’t display the scrollbar except while scrolling, does not reduce the height of the total list.

Both have search fields for good reason.

Don’t be difficult.

You really cannot argue that the layout, and hence how people would actually navigate it is not “about the same”. Your words.

To bring up a cosmetic difference is a nitpick. It’s the breeze theme, with a personal color scheme on top, not something explicitly made to look like MacOS. Which it could be.

You really haven’t checked lately, then.

KDE can be set up such that a ex-mac-user barely has to re-learn anything.

The difference is that while gnome looks a lot like MacOS, it isn’t exactly like it in terms of layout. An ex-mac-user will look for certain things in certain places, and won’t always find them. (such as power off/restart being up in the left corner)

Meanwhile, the customizability of the KDE desktop means you can manually put the same things in the same places as on MacOS. You can put a krunner search button in the same spot as the spotlight search button. You can make a panel that behaves like the dock, floating and shrinking to fit the number of icons in it. You can have a top panel with a power menu on the left end, and you can display a global menu to the right of it. Even the krunner keybind is the same, and spotlight people tend to pickup krunner like nothing.

Finally, the KDE settings application seems to be the most similar to the modern MacOS settings application.

The big caveat being that the user will need someone who can instruct them with setting this up, or who can set it up for them.