IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Whe I’m not personally familiar with adobe’s elements organizer, I believe you may want a metadata editor to maintain your sorting and ratings. I use Tiny Media Manager for managing my metadata but it looks like it can’t handle photos, I’ve looked into it a tiny bit and “ExifTool” (exiftool.org) seems to be the same but for image metadata.

I’d recommend copying some of those files already sorted by the adobe suite and check in the windows version of exiftool if it can edit or modify your tags and ratings you’ve applied. If so, the tool is also available Linux and MacOS.

Re: fusion 360
https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux

This might interest you

Re Logitech G602
Sonaar allows for registration of devices to your Logitech Unifying reciever

Re Logitech Headset
Depending on your headset, this may help
https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl

Re Secure Boot
I’m not sure if this is for an enterprise environment but if it is I would consider an LTS distribution. Otherwise I’m not personally sure what Secureboot would gain you from even being enabled other than preventing other operating systems from being booted. Your reasons for enabling it of course may be valid, but depending whether anyone else has physical access to that machine and what potential risks involved with another OS booting are, consider disabling it entirely.

I do my best! 🩷🌸🌷

Do you have any use cases in particular that have been pain points? I’m a 20+ year user who helps folks make the switch as a hobby, I may have some advice for you.

I don’t care about my distro. The choice I make when decicing on a distribution is entirely based on use case. I have LMDE on my server. I have Mint Cinnamon on my macbook. I use arch when I’m doing minimal installs for basic functionality. I don’t have a distro of choice for ARM, I’ve used rasbian and I use muOS on my rg35xxsp. I’ve been looking at learning gentoo and deploying that for raspberry pi as I have some projects in mind for some micro arcade cabinets and want as little overhead as possible in regards to background processes

Its important when manually installing the Nvidia drivers to remember to blacklist the Open source nouveau driver.

Anyone know if this fixes MSAA? I’m kinda sick of having to override my antialiasing in the Nvidia Xconfig app to force fxaa

AMD drivers are open source and built into the kernel. You should have very little problems with team red on linux. From what I’ve seen the new Intel cards work pretty well too.

Nvidia is known for their problems on Linux.

Stable Distros such as debian hold updates longer for testing, for example the newest Nvidia driver in the Bookworm Stable repo is 530(535 maybe?) wheras rolling release or bleeding edge distros might have up to 570 already.

You’re always able to manually install any software not available in your distribution’s repositories, but beware, in some cases here be dragons. Most of the time these manual installations are trivial, but in the case of Nvidia drivets for example, its VERY important you properly prepare your system, lest you end up in a state without graphics. This is of course, easily repairable, but a pain in the bum and something that can scare away new users.

It is possible to tighten security to the point where the system is unusable. Security and convenience must be balanced. The trick is to create a secure and useful system. ——The Arch Wiki, Security

Seems OP wants to play online only games, disconnecting might make that impossible.

My personal server is how I handle my backups. Currently, they would not be considered good, safe backups as I only have one copy of each but my partner is getting my 16TB of storage to throw into a RAID10 array to migrate the server over so I have actual parity data and can recover things that get borked.

Presently I have 5 TB of storage strewn across a few HDDs, SSDs, and a 0.5TB SD card. Its jank and its held together with spit and prayers, but its mine and I made it.

Obviously, nothing of import gets stored on my server, just backups of my physical media collection, which I still have access to and can backup again if need be.

People seem to love bazzite, is it all its cracked up to be?

I’m happy with my lmde htpc/server/gamingrig/clusterfuck so I’m not planning on changing, but I’ve been in the market for a handheld gaming PC and its been on my list to try.

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You’ll want an immutable distribution, you can’t break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you’ll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There’s a few other options on the page I’m linking, I haven’t tried and therefore can’t recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you’ll have issues there. Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there’s not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You’re welcome to DM me if you need assistance.

Gods, plural. But believe is a weird word.

I commune with the ancient gods of my ancestors, whether I believe in them is complicated though. I spent most of my life atheist after the christian church failed to grab me. I learned of my ancestral religion from my great grandmother and my great aunt. Grandma was Catholic on paper but still recognized the old gods. My aunt called herself a druid.

I choose to commune with the old gods because I have to believe in something. I’ve felt the call of spirit, the gaping void in my heart where spirituality was meant to be, but I do not trust organized religion. I don’t trust the churches. I don’t trust those who would hold power, enforced by faith, over those who do not know better.

I hope I didn’t imply that my practices are the same as in modern Hungary. My practices are entirely my own, developed from what my great grandparents taught me. They immigrated here as children close to a century ago, and were Catholic on paper when they did.

The culture in my family that survived americanization is slovak and Hungarian in nature. My mother failed to pass most of the culture her grandmother tried to pass to her, so I’m doing my best to return to my roots.

I commune with the old gods, Mokosh, Veles and Dazhbog. I try to listen to the world and take cues in action from nature. I practice herbalism, rejecting western medicine for most purposes.

Can’t use libreOffice and translate the Q code into whatever language libreCalc uses?

This is completely unrelated to your problem:

The calibre website recommends extremely strongly against using their software packaged by anyone else other than calibre themselves as they are often (see usually) buggy or extremely outdated.

It may be worth it to manually “install” the app from their website somewhere in your ~/.local/ and see if you have less issues using the official package.

Afict, you should be able to follow the instructions for migrating the repo and it will clone it to your instance and track for updates. It’s been a minute since I’ve read up on it though

THIS is why I clone all my commonly used Repos to my personal gitea instance.