I’ll be honest here: I switched my main laptop from slow roll to Linux Mint to install it several months back to install wayDroid. I’ve been happy with the switch. Here are my thoughts:

1. I’d installed Linux Mint + wayDroid on the laptop of various family members, and really liked what I saw
2. Runa-chin has done a great job providing instructions and packages to install it on tumbleweed, but it has quirks that I didn’t feel like fighting. It just works out of the box in Mint.
3. I like having KDE plasma 6 on slow roll, but the cosmetic difference from plasma 5 is minimal (it’s more performance/longer term). I’m ok with sticking with plasma 5 if I get a painless wayDroid installation
4. Slow roll is generally stable, but updates have burned me a few times in the past year. More stability is always nicer
5. Flatpak + appimage + snap (yes, I don’t mind using whatever is officially recommended on the project website of whatever I’m trying to install, though it would be nicer to have more official flatpaks) make it such that while my base is stable, I can still get some pretty recent packages

Sounds like dogs barking at/with each other in the night back when I was growing up. You’d hear the occasional how-how-hoooooww from one of them, and others would join in. Wolf’ish in some ways. The city I grew up in was much less crowded back then.

Now: I guess self driving cars fill in the void left by dogs not barking at each other anymore.

🐺 — > 🚗

Zyppos

vector pinball

supertuxkart SuperTuxKart (A 3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play.

Nominative determinism is pretty accurate. Steve Jobs did generate a lot of jobs. Bill Gates had a lot of gates to his name.

</joke> just in case it wasn’t obvious

Balls of plastic. Descended from balls of steel 💪

This is the caveat for me for now.

To run locally a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long!

I’ve got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn’t up to par.

Why not try it for yourself on Linux mint first by installing plasma? Plasma 5 is available on mint - I believe Fedora has plasma 6.

I use plasma 6 on my Opensuse Slowroll laptop and plasma 5 on my LMDE desktop.

Overall, I’ve found plasma 6 to run slightly better (I was on plasma 5 on Slowroll too for a long time).

Once you install and try plasma 5 on your current install, that will be a much less disruptive way to see how well it works for you.

After ricing, both plasma 5 and 6 are pretty similar on my setup. The cube desktop effect isn’t there by default on plasma 5 of course.

I run KDE on opensuse Slowroll - Intel i9 processor with plenty of RAM.

Check btrfs snapshots, and consider disabling them if you don’t really need them.

Here’s my story some time in the recent past:

Similar freezing issues that got more frequent. I have network and CPU monitor widgets on my desktop, and noticed my CPU usage peaking during freeze.

Ran top, saw #btrfs was doing a lot of processing. It was running snapshots.

I’d like snapshots, but a responsive system is more important to me: I have frequent backups of most of my stuff anyways.

Once I disabled btrfs snapshots, I stopped having the periodic freezes (which I also noticed were often some time after system/flatpak updates).

Spiral Linux. It’s Debian with customizations on top. You probably have a HDD. Flatpak/snap won’t play well with that.

You could try Opensuse tumbleweed for newer stuff, not sure how well your machine would hold up.

Puppy Linux might be an even safer choice than spiral Linux if you really want to stay lightweight.

You can still try it.

Multiple mounts of the same filesystem is nothing special: I’ve done it on multiple occasions for various tests.

Keep you setup, install smb4k, see how stable it is for you.

smb4k, while primarily for KDE, is awesome for samba shares.

You might want to give it a spin.

super productivity is pretty good.

You can also sync between your phone, desktop, etc using different sync options including Dropbox, webdav, local file, etc

If you want persistent messages, use a messaging app like another poster posted. KDE connect should work, but it doesn’t work for my setup for some reason.

If you just need transient messages, which is more of my usecase, and lightweight sending, use pairdrop.

snapdrop and pairdrop app from fdroid for Android, pairdrop website in desktop.

You can just use the website instead of app on phone too.

Sending over LAN is local - it doesn’t go outside your own network.

If devices are on same WiFi, no pairing required.

You can also send across networks by pairing.

Project GitHub repository

Now onto the four body problem!

The traffic is stuck in the traffic🚦

I’m a bit sad that my favorite (Infinity/Eternity) isn’t that high up. Loved it since my Reddit days. Tried different clients: Lemmy, thunder, liftoff, sync,… still like this the most!

Poor bot did its thing, but the article starts off in a way it can’t handle well it seems.