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Pretty nice, but only supports one server.

Been a while since I knew anybody that worked at McDonald's... But while I was a lifeguard in college, one girl quit the lifeguarding to get more hours at McDonald's. They were much much better at tailoring her hours, and others around their school schedules, kids schedulers, whatever. Perhaps that was a localized thing, but it was always known as a good place to work around here.

Syncthing can work. You don't get the centralized server though. Well you can run it on an always on system. I'd like this to be a VPS, but the files sit on the VPS in clear text. I like syncthing as it syncs file mode bits as well.

Resilio Sync is decentralized as well. And lets you setup encrypted folders, so only peers with the password can decrypt them, but other peers can take part in the syncing. So I can run an instance on a VPS and not worry too much if it gets compromised. I find its Linux support lacking and wasn't as reliable as Syncthing for me. I'm going to try it again sometime.

Seafile. Centralized server, can do encrypted folders. I'm going to look at this one again, but found the sync took a real long time, and I don't think it synced file mode bits.

Nextcloud. Centralized server. Can do encrypted folders. Seemed OK, but didn't do mode bits.

Currently I'm using Syncthing, where my central always on machine is my home server which would be running anyways. I like the idea of having a 'central' server in the cloud, but need that to be secured in a way that Syncthing can't do. So I'm not sure its my permanent solution yet.

I also use Unison for much larger folders, like my code directories.

Gnome has been really pissing me off lately. Simple things, like adding app that start on login need a "Tweak" tool? How silly is that.

With the upgrade to Fedora 29 I thought I'd try KDE. Its got a lot of the features I miss from Gnome - and a tray, and not so fat title bar. But its really unstable in various ways. In particular, forgetting many settings after a reboot. One display having a background, the other not.

Anyways, back to Gnome. At least whats their is stable.

I plan to give XFCE a shot. But might be time to take the i3 dive.

Say I’m forced to use Ubuntu. But my favourite distro is Fedora, should I use the supported Fedora kernel on Ubuntu.

;)

I currently have Fedora 28 installed on a T470 and a T480s and it’s pretty flawless. Not the sexiest laptops out there, but they seem pretty good for Linux.

I hope you appreciate the fact that you have a door :)

What is the root of all the Microsoft distrust? I’m older, and left Windows for Linux back in 1997 and haven’t really paid attention since. I wonder if this mistrust is valid? Are they any worse than Apple?

No. The hack that is better at advertising himself will get the higher paid consulting gigs.

I’m a full time paid open source developer. About 40% of my time is reviewing pull requests these days. Most of these are meaningful contributions. And while it can be a pain in the ass it is community building.

Probably silly, but I pretty much only use Chrome for the custom/compact title bar on Linux. On smaller screens it gives me more vertical on the content.

Unless you need to spin up OpenBSD and FreeBSD instances with an almost like Docker workflow. That’s where I use Vagrant still.

This is unfortunate. I chose Crashplan initially due to great family pricing, but more importantly as it had a Linux client. Given I backup Linux home server, a Linux desktop and a Linux laptop this has been its killer feature for me.