Thanks for the info! I’m already using ArcMenu, which is great - but as mentioned, it lacks app grouping support of any kind… not unless I want to go through the effort of editing categories. Doing that is a solution, but requires so much time and effort that it isn’t really the solution.
A friend is recommending switching DEs or distros, would Plasma get the job done?
And for when switching user agents doesn’t work: ungoogled chromium saves the day
My approach: A single data point is “dah-ta” Some quantity of data is “day-ta”
For example: “I back up my game’s save dah-ta in case my hard drive’s day-ta gets corrupted”
5 points, not bad
What you recommend in terms of offline open-source converters?
Same here… unless I’m listening to Spotify and/or podcasts a lot. Pixel 9 user here, latest GrapheneOS build. Not sure what the deal is, but Spotify alone can use up to 30% of my battery
Yep. You can just disable filtering for specific devices. Or, if you want to get more granular, you can create device groups with different levels of filtering (including none).
My partner uses Facebook, I don’t. Her phone has Facebook unblocked, but it’s blocked on all our other devices.
I recently de-embarrassed my hostnames. I went with names that are one step removed from being dead obvious. Feels nice having descriptive, but not uncreative, names for everything
I think I did a poor job of explaining things, sorry!
So here’s what I could do on Windows:
Right-click and app in the All Apps list, pin to Start
Drag & drop pinned apps on top of one another, which creates a group
The result I was able to accomplish on Windows looks like this (note the top row, all groups with app pins inside): https://i.imgur.com/Y9PmYoG.png
On Linux, using Gnome and ArcMenu, I can get close to accomplishing a similar result using the Enterprise layout: https://i.imgur.com/btNKjtj.png
I can edit those categories on the left of the menu using Alacarte, so I have the grouping I want and the pins inside that I want… but I can’t just drag & drop app commands, or even copy & paste them. So for every app I want in a specific category, the process is:
Create the category, if it doesn’t exist already
Name the category
Give the category a description
Give the category an icon (required) and save it
Create a new item in the category
Either figure out the launch command or copy it from an existing entry elsewhere
Give it a unique name (required)
Give it an icon (required), which means hunting for it if I don’t already know where it is
And then it’ll work. But, steps 5-8 are required for every single app… so if I want to put an app in a category, I have to perform those 4 steps every time. It’s a solution but it requires a notable amount of time and effort.