Ah, okay. I thought OP was referring to a thinkpad/thinkcentre

What’s a thin client?

Not sure if niche, but I use Arco Linux instead of the alternatives like Endeavour, Manjaro, or plain arch.

Why? Its easier to setup than straight Arch. Manjaro was all over the place when I tried it a few years back. Arco, right from the ISO stage, let’s you configure exactly what you want, with a handy guide on their website.

But the thing that keeps me loyal is the excellent community. The maintainer himself responds to most of your queries on telegram / discord (not FOSS reeee) and he’s very active on YouTube as well with no nonsense guides and walkthroughs. Shoutout Eric Dubois

As an audiophile, I’ve tried these at an event and they sound pretty close to audiophile grade wired headphones. They have the Focal house signature (slightly warm but not bassy or boomy)

Focal Bathys? They are expensive and delicate though

I use cloud flare tunnel for my home server too. Are there any viable and somewhat easy alternatives?

Sorry, I meant optimisations for KDE Connect in particular. It has a persistent notification enabled as well.

This just stops working on either my Linux laptop or my phone randomly. I’ll need to kill the process and restart it Does anyone know how I can fix this? Battery optimisations are turned off on the phone.

Manjaro is a distro I’ve given up on. Broke itself twice for me. I much prefer Endeavour OS or Arco (shout-out to that excellent community)

Thank you for the detailed reply. I am not too bothered with PS and the rest working natively or with gpu acc (I don’t do advanced work) but I’ll save this for later

I’ve had instances where the system breaks,usually when I don’t update for a while. I don’t want to face that on my ‘stable’ machine

Always the high seas for me and corporations

I do use krita / gimp on my laptop for quick edits. I’m not a professional by any means, the time sunk into learning these in depth isn’t really worth it for me.

Will take a look at this as well.

I’ve found the package manager to be infuriatingly slow

I got a T490 (touchscreen) for around 27k. Prices here are a bit higher compared to other countries, hence you are getting advice on spending a set amount. It is absolutely worth the price considering the other new options at this price range are usually Chromebooks. The idea pad does not even compete in the same league as a thinkpad. Avoid the E series though. I’d say the i5 performs similarly to the i7 but is significantly better on battery, so it would be my pick.

Namida. It’s excellent and the only thing I wish it had was a bitrate display

Xnconvert for some of these tasks

It’s been 2 decades since grandma bought a pc

Had you installed the native programs or everything on docker?