I’ve been using Duplicacy. I pay for the GUI because I still struggle with CLI-only tools.

Interested to see what others suggest though.

What does the profile switching look like on Graphene? I see people talk about it but haven’t seen it touched on as far as day to day usage. I just bought a pixel and am curious to try it out.

I can see some value using AI. I treat it like a search engine, since Google, DDG, Bing, etc all seem to suck now favoring ads and purchased result slots rather than finding what you’re looking for. Using AI helps since it’s doing several searches for you. But as others have said, the results can be flawed, particularly when searching for niche topics.

I have zero coding experience and used ChatGPT (I think) to vibe code a simple battery GUI for my Thinkpad running linux since the OS version I had would not display the internal and external batteries separately. Technically it worked, but it looked and ran like ass.

Ultimately I think it falls apart when things go wrong and trying to coax the robot to help you get your way out of trouble, which can be very problematic.

I gave up on FOSS alternatives and journal exclusively in Obsidian. it’s not open source, but the file format is simple text files. Which for me, was a must.

Someone else just mentioned Octopi in another thread. I don’t know much about it but downloaded it a few minutes ago and seems like a viable alternative to Nova.

Would Papra work for you? I like it better than Paperless-NGX personally, which others have mentioned. But I’ll admit I’m not sure it’ll fit in your use case as I’m feeding it newly scanned documents for mine rather than existing file/folder hierarchy.

Yep, same here. Works well.

I like the way Pop!_OS looks. Not gonna pretend it’s the best. But as far as default UIs, it clicked with the most. Default gnome seemed too spartan and all of the Windows-like DEs remind me too much of Windows. Which I don’t like. If that makes sense.

That’s a great idea. Do you have it persist between sessions? Like one server #1 it’s always green?

Hey that’s super helpful, thank you. Definitely going to try this out.

I’m still a beginner myself, but from my experience I’d say skip Nextcloud at least to start with. I found even the AIO version confusing to set up. Hell, I still do. I have the NextcloudPi image running on a Pi4 but am actively looking for a replacement because it runs like crap on that hardware and I don’t need all of the features it offers/tries to cram into one service.

I’m leaning towards FileRun. Yeah, you have to pay for it once. But so far it seems to be the best alternative that doesn’t try to do too much. And yes, I tried Owncloud Infinite Scale, before everyone jumps on me :)

Oh nice! I’ll check it out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll try them out. One thing that I hate is critical for me is integration with Android auto. It’s the last Google service I can’t seem to quit. Might have to give up and just roll with Bluetooth instead.

I want to leave too, but I really like PlexAmp for my music streaming. And no, Finamp doesn’t work nearly as well or look as nice.

Wai Wai World 2 on Famicom emulator. Don’t need to know any Japanese to play and it has great cartoony sprites.

Bubble Bobble (NES) is great two player, though you’re competing

Buster Bros (PsOne, and probably others) probably one of my top 5 co-op games of all time

Micro Mages (retro despite being released in 2019 because it plays on original NES hardware) probably top co-op of all time for me

There’s quite a bit more but have various degrees of violence so won’t recommend those (Contra, Heavy Barrel, Silk Worm, Jackal, Life Force, etc)

Same. I love that mail, calendar, contacts, notes, and files are all in one snappy app. I left proton because their android app was soooooo slow on android.

I do love me some gruvbox. First thing I switch with a new install of Obsidian, or anything else that has it…

Notesnook might work for you.

I have spent so much time professionally in Windows over the years that when I decided to switch it had to look nothing like it. So Mint is out. Kde as a whole really. Vanilla gnome looks kinda sterile to me. So I ended up with Pop!_OS and have been happy so far.

Fastmail is my favorite. I tried Proton but the android app is awful. Tuta seems decent, if a bit messy. But Fastmail got my money for 2 reasons:

1. Not Google or Microsoft
2. Email, contacts, calendar, notes, and files are all in a single app. Didn’t realize I’d care about that until I tried it.