This can be a great idea, if it’s done well. For example, the Street­Complete app has achievements to encourage contributions to the OpenStreetMaps project:

How would using NixOS have made OP’s system immune to the critical hardware issues that they discovered were the root cause making their computer fail to boot?

Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.

Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

You might be right about this software, but regardless of this specific use-case, I was responding to your overall sentiment towards containerization in general. It’s worth looking more into, that’s all!

I just want to encourage you to reconsider. Docker (or podman) is worth taking the time to figure out. It’s not particularly difficult to learn the basics of, and is extremely powerful.

Your life as a self-hoster will be massively simplified by spending a weekend learning to use docker or podman. Not using containerization is like opting in to hard mode with dependency and configuration hell.

I think OP is referring to Fog Panther, I just saw this yesterday in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.fogpanther.FogPanther. It definitely appears to be some jackass selling a blatant GIMP clone.

My 2013 Dell XPS laptop is still running beautifully with Fedora 43 too! Honestly, it’s amazing how much life a piece of old hardware can have with Linux running on it.

Sorry that Cyberpunk didn’t work for you, that’s understandably frustrating. I hope you get what you want from your return to Windows.

If you ever decide to try Linux again, you might benefit from asking people for assistance before you get so frustrated. I’ve personally played Cyberpunk for hundreds of hours on Linux, so I know it certainly does work. There’s probably something going on with that specific repack you’re using that makes it weird to get running.

That looks like Ubuntu, which I believe uses a modified version of Nautilus for the file manager. Hitting CTRL-L (for “location”) should give you a path bar to type into.

Not strictly “out of the box” since the setting isn’t enabled by default, but any distro with a recent version of GNOME installed will have RDP available. It’s ready to be toggled on in settings under System > Remote Desktop > Desktop Sharing:

Unfortunately, RDP always seems to be fiddly for me, it does that disconnect immediately after connecting that you described. Sometimes if I just keep hitting connect over and over, eventually it’ll get confused and stop disconnecting so that I can actually use the desktop for a while. YMMV.

Most stuff that runs on Windows is uninteresting because there are superior free alternatives on Linux, but in the cases where I needed it, Bottles is great.

I’m not sure what people are referring to in other comments when they say Bottles has “jank”, but for me it works very nicely for the few apps I occasionally need to use it for: Daz3D (just worked), jDownloader (just worked), and Affinity (followed this guide and it worked easily).

If you’re like me, and you have no idea what Openclaw is, and noticed that the project linked doesn’t explain it either: Openclaw is apparently some sort of AI bot that performs tasks on your personal data without your input.

I’m not trying to convince you to like something you don’t, and KDE is a fucking great suite of software.

However, it does sound like maybe you haven’t used GNOME in quite a long time. It does have various customizations built in that are available to users through the settings UI these days, and “tweaks that barely work” isn’t really a representative critique of the general ecosystem anymore.

GNOME’s extension platform is very mature at this point, and I’ve personally used a bunch of the same extensions for years now spanning like 10 major releases of GNOME without issue. Yeah, the little fly-by-night extensions that get two point releases and then are abandoned don’t work forever, but that’s true of a lot of old software, and is probably a good thing, honestly.

I tried the new version of the app (1.3.1) and it works a little better. As mentioned in my other comment, the app tries by default to write to my home directory, which fails. However, if I manually tell the app to use ~/Downloads instead, then it works!

On the other hand, closing and relaunching the app again clears out what I’ve manually configured and it tries to write to my home directory again until I change it every time.

(Also, apologies, I should be reporting to your issue tracker instead.)

Hey, sure no problem. I don’t actually have a Music folder ordinarily since I keep my music in a network location instead.

$ flatpak run --command=bash net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
[📦 net.fhannenheim.musicfetch ~]$ xdg-user-dir MUSIC
/home/luke

Flatseal shows that the app has requested permission to access xdg-music, which in my case is my home directory. I would assume that means it should be able to write there, but maybe the “All user files” toggle being off supercedes that? I’m not sure how flatpak permissions work, exactly.

Hey, thanks for the response! I tried again with the recent update (--version says 1.2.1) and still having the problem. The button you refer to opens my file manager in the system root directory, instead of the download directory shown in settings which is now by default set to my home folder instead of ~/Music like in the prior version.

To recreate, I ran the app from the CLI and searched the videos tab for “flowers”, then clicked download on the top result. The metadata pages had blank values (are they supposed to populate automatically somehow?), and I clicked through until I got to the final page below.

~$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch --version
musicfetch_gui 1.2.1
~$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[2026-01-28T19:22:43Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app] Starting download of 1 songs
[2026-01-28T19:22:43Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] running yt-dlp with args ["--ignore-config", "-x", "-f", "ba", "-o", "/tmp/musicfetch/%(id)s.%(ext)s", "--load-info-json", "-", "-O", "after_move:filepath", "--progress-template", "download:%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s-%(progress.total_bytes)s-%(progress.downloaded_bytes_estimate)s", "--newline", "--progress"]
[2026-01-28T19:22:44Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] All songs downloaded
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] reading filetype from path /tmp/musicfetch/G7KNmW9a75Y.opus
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] filepath extension: Some("opus")
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] moving song to: //1 - .opus
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] creating parent dir: /

PS: I tried again with another song (Big Boogie - Shut Up) that seems to have metadata available from however MusicFetch is finding metadata. The logs are slightly different in that it seems to attempt to save the file where it is configured to do so (the home folder), but there’s still not actually a file saved in that location when I click to open in my file manager:

$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[2026-01-28T19:31:10Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app] Starting download of 1 songs
[2026-01-28T19:31:10Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] running yt-dlp with args ["--ignore-config", "-x", "-f", "ba", "-o", "/tmp/musicfetch/%(id)s.%(ext)s", "--load-info-json", "-", "-O", "after_move:filepath", "--progress-template", "download:%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s-%(progress.total_bytes)s-%(progress.downloaded_bytes_estimate)s", "--newline", "--progress"]
[2026-01-28T19:31:11Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] All songs downloaded
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] reading filetype from path /tmp/musicfetch/B9RNRhoUr6E.opus
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] filepath extension: Some("opus")
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] moving song to: /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up/1 - Shut Up.opus
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] creating parent dir: /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up
[2026-01-28T19:31:23Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app::update] Opening directory at /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up

Edit: forgot to mention, I’m using Fedora Workstation 43, in case that’s relevant for you.

Good luck with the app, it’s a really good idea!

I had similar problems where the logs say it moved the file to my Music directory, but the directory was empty. I made multiple attempts using different directories and making sure the app has permissions with flatseal, but no luck.

It seems like a nice app though, I’m gonna keep an eye on it!

The repo README has some example code that looks like it might get you 90% of the way there to implementing railway highlights.

Could be a nice contribution to finish that out and send in a PR!

You could use something like WinBoat to make installing and using a virtual machine for Windows a lot easier. It also makes Windows apps feel almost like they are native to your Linux desktop, which is nice.

Alternatively, you could try running Excel in wine using Bottles, but I’m not sure how well that’ll go since Excel is kind of a monster of an application.