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I like your take, but if your title had been "GUIs are integral for linux adoption and devs should prioritize it more often" it might have gone over better.

Ffmpeg is one tool that I love and want to recommend to other users to do simple and efficient video file conversions/cropping/trimming. But the lack of a GUI doesnt make it easy. Luckily I have found GUI wrappers on windows and linux, but without those I would absolutely not recommend it. Youtube dl is another example of this. Im glad there are other open source projects providing GUI wrappers for these scenarios.

Its too bad they closed sourced the site. I really like the way it makes exploring crates easy, but after major devs having their crates removed Im very hesistant to use it.

This is incredibly inspiring. I'm hoping to dive into this hobby. Seeing these custom designs and stretching the standard for what makes a keyboard is so motivating. Seriously, this piece is stunning...I look forward to hearing how it tyoes when you get the firmware sorted!

Financially you got ahead on the bike, but do you think the insurance claim, emotional toll, time without a bike, etc. was worth the improvement for the new bike? It seems easy for someone who has never been a victim of theft to just look at the numbers and assume that person is better off. How do you feel about your bike situation?

That is a very cool mug. Where did you get it?

Never forget that no matter the distro (well most of them) you can install whatever desktop environment you want. That said, if you want to dip your toes in first time, I'd go with Mint. Its debian based, so most stackoverflow solutions will already have the apt install command you need for you. It has a variety of DE options out of the box on their website too.

Also, KDE and Gnome have changed a lot over the last 5 years. Id give each of them another shot.

EDIT: yes, pine is based

Youve reminded me that deck and tasks actually integrate with one another. If you have a deck card assigned to you, it shows up in a special feed in tasks as well. I think its a little clunky but might be a feature of interest. I just opted for all tasks, since my nextcloud is single user.

How do you like the wiki? What do you use it for? Internal use or can you spin it public for projects?

I actually started with deck and then moved to tasks because I likes the simplicity of a binary "done/not done" as apposed to moving cards across boards (which I used todo/doing/done). Theres a couple features that I use on a given task, like dates, descriptions, and subtasks, but thats it. I suspect that if deck was insufficient for you, thats tasks isnt the right solution either.

I installed nextcloud at first because I was looking for a basic forms app. Not something very complex, just needed something simple. The best I found was Nextcloud Forms. So I ended up driving a nail not with a hammer, but a battering ram. But I knew that I might find other uses later.

Since then, I've discovered and used many apps.

• Files lets me easily share documents with others with a link.
• I started storing recipes in Cookbook, instead of links in a file.
• I started storing bookmarks across all my devices in Bookmarks and floccus.
• I got into podcasts by subscribing to RSS feeds with News.
• I started doing my todo lists digitally with Tasks. This one in particular has very much changed my daytoday along with the android app tasks from tasks.org.

I think I've played Lords of Waterdeep more than anything else. I like playing with two players a lot, and it's got such an easy learning curve. It fits most game nights and I play it frequently.

Have you ever found yourself installing something at the OS level, then realizing you'd want to customize it and moved it to your home manager installation?

I hadn't considered configuration. When I browse through the home manager options it's obvious just how many more settings can be set and tweaked. Thanks