Na don’t worry, I raised an issue and the developer confirmed it was a bug, so you did everything right, no need to post the link twice!

I was about to say “what article?” because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there’s a linked post that my client isn’t showing!

I’ve tried KDE Plasma Mobile on an old Surface Pro and it seemed to work better than Gnome

Literally my first experience after installing dark reader is that it can’t darken its own add-on page! Seems to be good for other pages so I’ll give it a go for now.

I always found that to be quite hit and miss. Works for plenty but often gives a flash of white before it kicks in and makes enough pages unreadable that I’d rather not bother at all! I’ll give it another go and see if it’s improved though.

What setup do you have that actually sets a dark background everywhere? In my experience there are always plenty of programs and web pages that stay white.

For example, Bluesky. They have an open protocol and (I think) you can easily transfer data between instances. If they start fucking people around, you can just jump to another ATProto app.

I’ve never touched bluesky but everyone on Lemmy seems to be constantly saying that there are no other instances

I’ve got a different model but as others have said the linux-surface kernel is key, and their GitHub page has detailed compatibility info and installation instructions. I picked Fedora having never used it before because it was well-supported and I’ve got no complaints.

More critical than distro is desktop environment. A few people were recommending Gnome but they must be a bit out of date now as I didn’t have a great experience; incompatible extensions, missing gestures, and generally a worse feel than Windows! I’ve just installed KDE Plasma Mobile and it’s great, feels more like Android and has way more features.

The linux-surface installation instructions will walk you through this, but I’d just download the Fedora Plasma Mobile spin, put it on a USB drive, boot it to check you like it (though expect that a few things might not work properly until you install the linux-surface kernel), install it (you can dual-boot with Windows if you think you might need it or just replace the whole OS if you’re concerned about space), and then install the kernel.

Happy to try and answer any more questions about installing!

This is such a small thing but it infuriates me every time I have to use Microsoft’s stupid “docs” site. Great QoL feature if it works!

What’s with the image?

Good to see Space Cadet Pinball still there!

Any running Linux, see !linuxphones@lemmy.ca / !linuxphones@lemmy.ml for more

I don’t run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I’m done using them!

Thanks, I’ll keep an eye on the projects and maybe switch at some point

Is it stable enough to recommend for non-techy users? Set-and-forget sounds ideal for someone who doesn’t understand (and doesn’t really need to understand) all the updates their machine is doing.

Good point!

Isn’t bazzite fedora-based? Meaning you use dnf instead of apt or pacman.

How do you have rclone set up? I thought I had it working but it’s turned out to be way more complex than I initially thought!

Different use cases, innit? I have several personal machines, a work machine, and infinite containers and VMs to deal with so it’s not worth it for me. If you’re always on the same machine and can easily take your config with you to the next one then more power to you!

I would probably disagree with this advice, certainly for anyone who uses more than one machine. Setting up lots of specific aliases means you’re learning a unique system, and all your muscle memory becomes useless every time you’re in a container or SSHing somewhere without your tweaks.