Love this idea!
Apologies if you’ve written this elsewhere, but do you have a write up of what inspired this project? Particularly why a selfhosted solution vs. client software?
My guess is:
Thanks!
So like, the government doesn’t subpoena the seedbox company to find out what you download?
Yes, I have heard that windows likes to be on its own drive. I’ve also never had any problems with it erasing grub unless I was installing windows after Linux.
I would recommend setting windows to the UTC timezone so it doesn’t fuck with the PC’s system clock.
I still recommend dual booting over VM if you have to interface with any peripherals.
Dual booting sometimes can result in other hardware interface problems, or solve them. They’re not common, but keep an eye out. For instance I had a laptop once where the wifi kill switch only worked in windows, and if you pressed it in Linux, you’d have to reboot into windows to toggle it back on.
I’m still reeling
Thanks for the info! Best of luck with your search
Could you tell us your gripes with kubuntu? I’m curious
Don’t be mad when ppl don’t like LLM code. You can release something for free but calling people ungrateful for not liking seems a bit… presumptuous.
It assumes the windows version has features the Linux version does not have, which is a question in bad faith, and difficult to answer. Hence “begging the question”.
Do you understand now?
Your question, “What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?” cannot be answered without accepting an unargued premise: that the windows version has more features than the Linux version.
No one was saying that, so your question is begging the question.
That is what begging the question means in the uk, unless I’m mistaken.
Some context, which you may or may not be aware of, that makes the original comment funny, is that recently, Calibre, which had been a very boring piece of software, has started including a bunch of AI features. So there are some new forks that intend to make a drop in replacement for Calibre without the unwanted features.
Yes you can. This would remind you that itis an appimage and then delete it
That is really cool! Thanks!
That works for things that are installed via the app store, but I install things from other sources as well.
I don’t know what you mean by platforms, but if the software I want is not in the app store, I usually go to their website and see how the developers recommend installing it.
Sometimes I download an appimage. Sometimes I download a .deb. Sometimes the developer wants me to wget directly into sudo (yuck) sometimes I have to clone a github repo, rarely these days do I have to download a source tarball and make compile, but maybe I get some old software that works that way.
Sometimes it is confusing because the software I installed (e.g. Steam) has the preferred way from the website different from the version in the app store (Steam-launcher or whatever). The problem is I don’t remember which method I used to install what.
In my imagination, I open the universal uninstaller, and start typing the app. As I type it shows suggestions. If I select it, it tells me how I installed it (downloaded a deb from their website, etc.,) then the next click takes me to the correct uninstall method.
I make an ~/all/ directory as a catchall for things that don’t fit elsewhere, since ~ is used by so many automatic softwares and config files, I like having a place that only I’ll write to.
I also make ~/bin for general use and ~/all/GitHub/ for software I install from GitHub.
What is screenwriting?
Markdown is so crazy that it is supported everywhere on the Web yet there are no good desktop apps to do what you describe.
I use one from the snap store that let’s you go back and forth like you describe, but to change the font or print you have to expoet to a different format…
I forget what it is called but it is a gnome app.
Begging the question?
A universal uninstaller.
Now that Ubuntu has apt, snap, ~/bin, flatpak, appimages, etc, when I want to disable, update, or, uninstall an app, I can’t quickly figure out where it is or how to do that. So a program that starts with ‘which appname’ or something more clever to find it, which also told you what type of installation method it was and then let you remove it with the next action.
For example I had Desktop Docker installed which was garbage, and I didn’t remember how I had installed it. In that case you couldn’t use ‘which’ because that’s not the name of the executable, so you’d have to design something smarter that could search .desktop files or whatever.
Good luck with your project!
I would like to go this route, but I’m really confused about how to do it legally, or even in a gray area sense. I once purchased a Windows 10 Pro license. I’m not sure if that entitles me to being able to install Windows in a VM, but I would really like to do this to run some Windows-only applications that don’t seem to work in WINE
I’m not sure what the seedbox hard disk would have that would trace back to you. But if they have your IP address they can send a letter to your ISP or whatever they do.