Xfce. It does what I want it to do and little else.

Thumbs up for announcing it’s creation so we can pre-emptively block it though.

Using Obsidian with mega on desktop and FolderSync covering syncing the android side of it. Works fine.

Nice. I’d never heard of micro, but it looks good. yoink

Just adding my congrats. Good job, OP. Regex is super useful stuff.

Command line is a lot more powerful for a lot of cases. Most CLI programs are written with the idea that the caller might be another program, so they tend to be easy to chain with pipes and redirection. So you have tons of simple tools that you can combine however you need.

1. I generally aim newbies at Mint, but ubuntu derived distros are pretty easy and stuff often ‘just works’. That’s why my daily driver is xubuntu.

2. All over the place, really. Another advantage of ubuntu derived distros is you’ll find a lot of the tutorials and stuff will assume you’re using ubuntu. I just hit a search engine if I need help with something.

3. Can’t help you there I’m afraid.

Betterbird maybe? I don’t really use Thunderbird much so not 100% sure what it had before. 😁

FWIW, a few months ago I nuked windows on an old laptop and installed Xubuntu and it was a whole lot more responsive.

(Disclaimer: I actually like Xfce.)

Mint is a solid ‘shit just works’ choice too, especially for beginners.

I have good news, there’s one on lemmy.ml. Kind of quiet so far, but…

celebrates with a glass of icewater

ReadEra on android and Calibre’s reader on Xubuntu desktop.

Might look into some of the stuff suggested here.

Hmm, I’ve never seen Digikam before, but it looks pretty handy.

There’s an option under Settings->Metadata to have the categories written to EXIF data in the image file itself.

I just tested and the categories show up in exiftools.

September never ends.

Really looking forward to block-by-domain…

Ah, my bad. I missed the ‘open-source’ requirement. But yes, I mostly use it because it’s all markdown so I can use it with whatever.

Obsidian here.

I recently (yesterday) discovered a web-based port of Audacity. I haven’t messed with it much and don’t do much audio editing in general, but it’s here FWIW.

Lol…Gab? Not even once, for any purpose.

Yeeeerah, I tried 23.04 too and was surprised how buggy bits of it are. I had screensaver issues too, though not quite as bad. I never could manage to get the notification widget to actually work. I gave up and dropped back to 22.04 LTS.