Thanks for your input, but it seems the Pano gnome extensions page hasn’t been updated for ages. I’m running GNOME 48 and the extension page shows GNOME 45 as the latest supported version.

Doesn’t matter, I realized Clipboard Indicator can be called by a key combination, it just won’t float in the middle or below my mouse cursor. I guess without creating my own, I’m not gonna get it any better :)

Thanks to you I realized, Clipboard Indicator can do that too. So now I bound Super+V to show the clipboard, and I can search it with the keyboard, select entries, etc.

KDE Plasma user of 4 years here, I am currently giving GNOME a try with Fedora Workstation. Reading through here, I’m going to try a few new extensions, thanks a lot :)

My currently used extensions are:

• AATWS (advanced alt-tab window switcher)
• Clipboard Indicator
• Vitals (system resource usage)
• AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
• Caffeine
• Launch New Instance
• No overview at start-up
• Places Status Indicator
• Workspace Indicator

There’s a feature I’m really missing though. On KDE Plasma 5 the clipboard manager opened a window right below your mouse on pressing Super+V. This window showed all the clipboard entries, was text-searchable and I could navigate and use/enter clipboard entries with my keyboard. Does anybody know of something like this for GNOME?

Rocket League has been running smoothly for me, even before they stopped supporting the linux client and before switching to epic.

I’m running Fedora 42 Workstation and have now tested Rocket League on Fedora Workstation 41 and 42 with GNOME 47 and 48 on Wayland. Both ran buttery smooth on 2560x1440@144Hz. I did not try X11, haven’t used it in years.

I start Rocket league via steam with the proton-experimental and the input parameters as follows. You can leave out Mangohud, of course. gamemode may also be unnecessary.

MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%

The only problem I had with Rocket League at one point (sometime last month) was Rocket League refusing to start. I did not reinstall, just tried switching from proton-9 to proton-experimental and my problems were solved. I probably should uninstall the game and delete leftover files like the wine prefix, then reinstall and test again.

If Rocket League is the only game affected, you might see something in the proton log. If you start your game with the following launch parameters, steam writes a proton log file into your home folder.

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Using something arch-based but not arch while also using the AUR feels like opening the door to problems. The AUR is specifically made with arch linux in mind and often package versions don’t align between arch and arch-based distros.

Also, I lost trust in Manjaro. They accidently let their SSL cert expire multiple times and told their users to revert system time to have a temporary fix. They also shipped an unstable asahi-kernel to their users without talking to the asahi devs beforehand, as well as accidentally DDoS-ing the AUR with a bug in a pamac version (as far as I know that happened twice). It just feels like their management board has / had some problems.

These may have all been issues of the past, but with the massive amount of distributions out there, I’d probably walk a lot of different roads before ever touching Manjaro again.

Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.

Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.

Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.

Seeing this CD reminded me of Knoppix. I tested that in school when I was 16 or 17.

Your picture really makes me feel old. Kernel 2.0? KDE 1.0? GIMP 1? Feels so far away, it must have been a different life.

Just a misunderstanding, then. I did not intend to talk down on a hosting provider I don’t even know. Instead, I prioritize hetzner because I’m familiar with them and they’re based in europe.

I didn’t intend to be elitist about anything and I actually fail to see the elitism by saying “that hoster is not about providing cheap storage”? Maybe there’s something in the english language I do not pickup on?

Yeah, hetzner’s more about having your own servers than providing cheap storage.

Proton also seems to be interesting. Privacy by default and being swiss based definitely are plus points.

Thanks for the mentions!

you can run the open source control plane called Headscale instead of relying on Tailscale’s (the company) free service tier

Ah, that sounds more interesting. I still have time until I buy everything, there’s still going to be a lot of research, especially with all the ideas and feedback people have given me in this thread.

I’ll definitely try it, thanks!

Not sure if it checks all the boxes perfectly, but if not it is probably as close as youll find ready-made

That’s a good point. To have cohesion and good integration, some sacrifices have to be made. This seems better than having 20 independent services working with (and sometimes probably against) each other.

Thanks for the heads-up! Those sound like acceptable problems, as long as they’re temporary and my data is safe.

Google is evil but I know that GDrive has pretty low prices on data storage […] Don’t forget to encrypt everything when uploading to these services!

That is what I am hoping for :) My free Google account grants me 15GB of online storage and my free Microsoft account provides me with another 5GB. The 15 GB should be enough for encrypted photo backups, while 5GB definitely is enough for encrypted calendar, contact and probably some document backups. I just need to find a way to automate backups to these.

based in the USA, priced at 3$/TB/month

If I am going to pay money for something and with how the world currently is, I’m going to use some EU based service. My only VPS resides at hetzner, if the need arises I will probably just add a storage volume to my VPS or upgrade it to the next tier.

The filter criteria on geizhals are so far superior to amazon (at least for computer and tv stuff), it’s not even funny anymore.

Plus, you can filter for “item is physically present in shop”, so you can just look up what you want and then go there and get it yourself, no need for same-day-delivery.

Up to personal preference if you trust a fork for this work

I see 3600 stars and I guess that’s kinda trustworthy :) I also do like some of the enhancements listed on the github page. I’ll try it, thank you very much!

Then I give praise to you, for you are more prepared than any other individual I personally know of and even some smaller companies I had worked with.

Okay so not critical, just mildly inconvenient if lost.

I wouldn’t put it at “mildly inconvenient”, as the photos I could lose can never be restored. Most of the other things can. I’d be really sad if I lost all the photos, but it wouldn’t threaten my existence in any way.

I’m sorry, I should have specified in more detail what I meant by “critical”.

It’s not life-threatening, it’s just critical to me. It’s kinda like “my priciest possession” could mean a yacht or a half-dead car, depending on the context.

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a disk failure is probably the most likely failure scenario. Corruption is the second most likely

Yes, these are things that are 100% going to happen at some point. I cannot guarantee theft, floods, earthquakes or anything like that, but hardware degrades with time and use, so at some point things are going to fail.

Not make or break by any means

That’s great to hear. I can always buy better hardware later and first test if things run with what I already have. I don’t like to have my IT wasting in some drawer.

Thank you for your advice!