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stadtaffe said:
I do think you mean window manager rather than distro here, but will say a bit more below.
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I meant both. Sometimes some distros will introduce their own functional tweaks to a certain window manager, so I was covering both bases.

larom said:
Your problem is likely that you're using the discrete GPU & ignoring whatever on board performance GPU your laptop comes with.
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No discrete GPU in my laptop.

I finally had the chance to try the latest Plasma desktop version as part of the KDE neon distro, and I think they nailed it! Over 90% percent improvement. I can scale in 5% increments, and whatever value I picked, it didn't introduce an instant headache. So there is hope with Plasma 6, I'll just have to wait for a more stable distro to bundle it, as KDE neon breaks things here and there with their latest rolling updates.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in.
 
I've been slowly migrating my desktop to Fedora Workstation away from Arch as I have far less time these days to maintain and administer a system that I want to just get work done on. Bluetooth drivers broke one too many times and I called it a day on Arch.

So far I am very impressed by the sane defaults and also consider it a benefit that when I build servers in the future, I can use something like Alma or Rocky linux and have all the same commands as Fedora. Might even be something for the resume re: RedHat Enterprise etc.
 
Is anyone aware of a good cloud backup solution for Linux? As near as I can tell Proton Drive isn't capable of syncing automatically with a Linux workstation. Brave AI vaguely outlines some hacky way to mount Proton Drive locally and use a "file watcher" to sync to the cloud, but I'd like something that works automatically with some solution designed and supported by the vendor.
 
scary_robot_music said:
Is anyone aware of a good cloud backup solution for Linux? As near as I can tell Proton Drive isn't capable of syncing automatically with a Linux workstation. Brave AI vaguely outlines some hacky way to mount Proton Drive locally and use a "file watcher" to sync to the cloud, but I'd like something that works automatically with some solution designed and supported by the vendor.
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If anyone out there does know of a cloud backup solution for Linux that is not Proton Drive, please let me know. I used to use a US based service that I don't want to name specifically (I'm always paranoid about mentioning specifics) but it abandoned its cloud back up product.
 
scary_robot_music said:
If anyone out there does know of a cloud backup solution for Linux that is not Proton Drive, please let me know. I used to use a US based service that I don't want to name specifically (I'm always paranoid about mentioning specifics) but it abandoned its cloud back up product.
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There's two types of "cloud backup" - sync and backup.

Proton Drive belongs to the sync category - you can real-time sync one local directory to their remote directory, or just mount their remote directory and interact with it as if it were local. For this usecase I'd recommend Rclone. Supports many backends for cloud storage, and you can combine it with the crypt backend to ensure your files are end-to-end encrypted. Or just rsync to your own server if you don't require E2EE.

Then there's backups - these include versioning, incremental sync and data deduplication to ensure that you have multiple point-in-time checkpoints you can restore deleted files from. Kopia, Restic and Borg are popular choices for this.
 
SCW said:

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Thanks. Some encouraging options in that first link, including Mega with 20gb for free. Have you (or anyone else) actually used any of these? I'd be interested to hear your experience if any of you have.
 
SCW said:

Best Encrypted Cloud Storage in 2024

Secure your data with the best encrypted cloud storage services. Keep your data safe and private with encryption and access from anywhere in the world.
www.privacytools.io www.privacytools.io

File Sharing and Synchronizating Tools & Services

Find the best file sharing and synchronization tools and services. Keep your data safe and secure with our recommended file sharing solutions.
www.privacytools.io www.privacytools.io
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PrivacyGuides is the new fork from PrivacyTools, after the owner of the PT domain abandoned the site for years then tried to take over again once the site gained a good reputation thanks to the unpaid volunteer team who were maintaining the site and building up the community. The entire team moved away and setup PG, whilst the owner of PT still tries to grift a buck off the PT brand whilst not maintaining it at all.

See this page for PG's cloud file storage recommendations. Should be noted that Rclone isn't on there because it's not available on all their prerequisite platforms.
 
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