So you’re going the full HTPC route? I did that a while back, but tbh it’s become much more difficult since the streamers started locking up their APIs and using hardware DRM. The reason I suggest the Shield is that you get native support for streamers and also Jellyfin/Kodi/whatever in the same box. You can’t do that on Linux, sadly

I know you said it must be Linux, but you could replace your Apple TV with an Nvidia Shield

Nvim all the way

I’m in favor of renaming but could they not have included a vowel or two

Ah ok that makes sense. I believe plasma does HDR out of the box too, amongst other cool things

What’s wrong with Cinnamon? I use it because we share a computer and it was the closest thing to Windows look-wise for non-linuxy family members. Interested to hear what advantages plasma has though!

https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

I use hd-idle for my home server. As mentioned elsewhere, you do have to be careful spinning up/down disks frequently. If you’re using a Linux Mint, that tells me this is a desktop, so you probably shouldn’t do it at all. My server is idle for hours at a time though, so it makes sense in this case. I believe hd-idle defaults to spinning down after ten minutes of idle time.

Linux Mint comes closest ime, but it really depends what you want to do. You should ask yourself this question: am I a power user? If the answer is ‘no’, and you just need to do basic media/productivity stuff, you’re going to have a frictionless experience with most popular Linux distros. If the answer is ‘yes, but I don’t want to learn another operating system’ then you should stick with what you know.

I’m 2, and the rest of my family is 1

I use stow and it does the job get nicely, but it’s possible that there’s a better option these days

They have to work with Adobe. Or any of the big musical instrument sample libraries.

I tried using Gmail through Thunderbird, but the problem is that the filtering is web UI only

Hmm if you plan on using streaming services it’s a massive hassle tbh. You can get away with using web apps with some sort of launcher, but even then you can’t watch things in 4K because the DRM has a hardware component these days.

Zsh is nice, particularly with a couple of plugins

Libraries aren’t even allowed to stock all the books they need owing to exorbitant license fees, so I don’t see a publicly-funded, community cloud getting any purchase this side of a revolution, sadly.

Cursed solution to a cursed problem 🤷

You don’t really need anything fancy, but… I use Kitty because why not make things pretty

It’s not that difficult, and you don’t need to become an expert — just find out what you need to achieve what you’d trying to do rn. Tbh I still use online calculators for permissions a lot of the time. Maybe see what you can find in the servarr wiki on the subject?

Don’t do that. I’ve done worse, but that’s no excuse. You need to use the setgid bit (chmod g+s) of the parent folder and then look into the umask config option for whichever of your applications are creating files/directories… and what umask even is ofc lol

What have you been trying to do exactly? I’ve got into plenty of permissions messes in the past, and my gut feeling is that you might be overcomplicating things here