None of your requirements are distribution specific. I do all (Steam, non Steam, Kdenlive, Blender/OpenSCAD, vim/Podman, LibreOffice, Transmission) of that and I’m running Debian with an NVIDIA GPU. Consequently I can personally recommend it.

FWIW from https://lmms.io/download#linux one can get as AppImage (so nothing to build, no repository to modify) either

• 1.3.0-alpha.1.102 alpha
• 1.3.0-alpha.1.894 nightly

so from what I understood you could consider alpha, not nightly.

Eh… not sure where you get your information but https://github.com/lmms/lmms last update was yesterday.

I recommend a different consideration than the usual design, battery life, OSHW, etc : connectivity.

So typically you get BT but that’s not enough, you need a bit more since it’s not a well recognized device, unlike e.g. headphones. Typically you would need a companion app, for GrapheneOS, Android more broadly, iOS or a Linux phone. This is where GadgetBridge comes in. The goal of the project is to… bridge gadgets that are not standalone. Instead of having a myriad of (usually proprietary) apps that basically all do the same thing (pair, configure, handle notifications both ways) have 1 that does it for all such device.

From that standpoint, namely GadgetBridge support, at the moment the recommendation is Pebble (which is how the project started) or PineTime.

PS: I personally have a Pebble (with hardware issue, so not sure were), a PineTime (also hardware issue, touch on screen AFAIR) and finally a Watchy and… honestly I don’t wear any anymore. I don’t get enough benefit from it as typically I have a phone nearby and when I don’t it means I do NOT want notifications.

FWIW https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk works well. Sure it hasn’t been updates for a couple of years but maybe it’s not really needed.

Sorry I don’t know enough but here is an interesting articles about other kind of gnomes :P https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-tech-rally-apple-iphone-elon-musk-tesla-luddite-movement-2025-9

With pleasure. I discovered kdialog just recently too as until now I used notify-send but as you are using KDE this gives you a lot more options.

If you are into this kind of things check also dbus or KWin, there are a LOT of fun and powerful ways to interact with KDE.

It also has kdeconnect-cli with e.g. kdeconnect-cli --share myfile.txt so don’t think you are stuck with a GUI to use KDEConnect.

I imagine dbus-monitor should work with cron but probably if starting once DBUS is actually running (so not sure @reboot would be sufficient)

1-liner would be something like watch -n 10 "pgrep konsole || kdialog --msgbox 'konsole no running'"

namely :

• watch to repeat a command at interval, e.g. every minute (could also be crontab)
• pgrep to check if a process is running
• kdialog on KDE to send a message to the current user (plenty more ways)

Thanks, it’s quite interesting but again IMHO it relies on bad practices. If you’ve been compromised and you “restore” (not in an sandboxed environment dedicated to study the threat) then you are asking for trouble. I’ll read a bit more in depth but the timeline I see 1987, 1998, 2017 show me this is a very very niche strategy, to the point that it’s basically irrelevant. Again it’s good to know of it, conceptually, but in practice proper backups (namely of data) remains in my eyes the best way to mitigate most problems, attacks and just back luck (failing hardware, fire, etc) alike.

That doesn’t make much sense to me, one backup data, not executables or system. Even if they were to be saved in the backup then they wouldn’t get executed back.

Anyway, that’s still conceptually interesting but it’s so very niche I’d be curious to hear where it’s being used, any reference to read on where those exist in the wild?

Funny but that’s the entire point of a digital “life” if you want to use analogies : your backup is you.

Nothing needs an antivirus if you backup your data properly.

PS: I’m getting downvoted for this so I’ll explain a bit more : if you backup properly, you can restore your data. Sure your system is fucked… but who cares? In fact if you care for your OS installation then right away it shows you are NOT in a reliable state. You install another OS and start from there. Maybe it’s not even due to a virus, maybe your hardware burns in fire, same situation so IMHO a working backup (and by working I mean rolling, like TODAY it’s done without your intervention) then you restore. Also please don’t tell me about ransomware because even though it is a real threat, if you do your backups properly (as in not overwritting the old ones with the new ones) then you are still safe. It can be as basic as using rdiff-backup. It’s fundamental to understand the difference between what’s digital and what is not digital.

If most of your passwords are actually for Websites, Firefox has Profile letting you manage passwords across devices.

I setup WireGuard only last week so maybe I’m the one who misunderstand something : on your LAN assuming you are NOT using your router (or switch, or a networking device) to be a peer of the VPN, don’t you need to add each machine as a peer to the VPN? Also doesn’t that leave the most granularity so that the (root) user of each machine can chose to be on/off and more, e.g. split tunneling?

Indeed but by doing so I can connect from the outside World too, e.g. if I’m at the dentist waiting for an appointment, I just connect to the VPN over my 5G connection, no login required.

Because it’s low end I’d put :

• headless Debian pre-configured with WiFi and sshd to then add
• CopyParty via its single .py file
• apt install minidlna to serve media files back to add devices on LAN, e.g. VLC on desktop and mobile devices
• mount a large microSD for data
• I’d add a WireGuard VPN configuration file and make both accessible outside the LAN but only on my devices

All that is relatively quick if you have done it before (maybe 30min total) and can run 24/7 for years requiring very little power.

Also FWIW if I wouldn’t get an answer within few hours and I knew for a fact that with a fresh install it worked, I’d re-install.

It’s perfectly fine to do the process again as it insures your files are safe (either working backup or separate disks, or ideally both) and you know what software is relevant for you, that your configuration files are well known, etc.

Installing a distribution should be a painless and quick process.

Typically my debugging process goes like this :

• error message? Search for it online with the most unique keyword that aren’t machine specific
  • solutions provided?
    • solution understood? try it then loop back, writing notes in own wiki
    • solution not understood? bookmark it then try understood solutions first, if not try and loop back
• no error message?
  • find where the error message is!
    • what actually produce the error from the top of the stack? end-user software? service? kernel? hardware? where do they put logs?
      • if logs exist and verbosity is not sufficient, increase verbosity and reproduce the problem
  • if no verbose enough error message can be obtained, repeat the situation in various conditions
    • does any condition make it work?
      • search on the difference between the working and non-working condition
    • backtrack one layer up the stack, e.g. if end-user software does not change, try service, etc
      • does this one provide logs?

So… it’s basically always the same, namely try the lazy way (error log search) and if that’s not enough, try further down the stack or more unknown BUT always get information out the try.

TL;DR: I have no idea but if another new machine (e.g. phone) can connect then DHCP works. FWIW NetworkManager logs are in journalctl -u NetworkManager and you can manually add/remove Ethernet connections. I’d physically unplug then plug back the cable with WiFi disabled.