I can see why so many options would make someone just shake their head and close the settings app.

I think you should go through them when you have the time, if you’re still interested in the other things KDE brings to the table. I went through all of the settings when I moved over to openSUSE Tumbleweed last December, and I’m still here today. KDE to me is what operating systems should do. Give me the power to change every single thing I can, while still having presets for people who don’t.

Anyway, I see your point though! The options are great for making the OS feel like mine!

Orion browser allows this on iPhone! You can use Firefox or Chrome add ons.

I’m always a little shocked at what my browsing habits prevent from these types of things. Thanks for sharing! I feel a little better about my browsing usage!

I left last year around December because I realized how well my Steam Deck ran games. I’ve dabbled with Linux over 10 years now, but gaming really is the only thing I bought my desktop computer for. It has an NVIDIA GPU in it, so I was a little wary of messing my stuff up by installing openSUSE Tumbleweed, but I had a spare SSD from a laptop that finally gave out on me, and installed that into the desktop.

Color me surprised when I find out just how much better Linux is that day (and even today!) than it was all those years I had tentatively tried distros like PopOS/Manjaro/Fedora/Debian/ElementaryOS/etc!

I say this every time I talk about Linux now, but I actually love my computer and being on it again. With Windows, I just wanted it to get the hell out of my way and let me play my damn games (I have a very limited amount of time when I get home from work to do anything I want to do, babysitting my OS is not something I want to do with that limited time)! With openSUSE, I feel totally in control and have my system set up the way I want it to.

There were some things I definitely had to get used to, seeing as I never had to research issues I was having with Windows (never had a problem in the 20 years I’ve been using them, EXCEPT for Windows 8. That was a big piece of flaming garbage, as is Windows 11. 7 and 10 were okay for me though).

Since last year, I have had to login to Windows only to mod my games and move them back over to my Linux SSD (which Linux allows me to pull files from my Windows drive, and is SICK by the way!) and I think maybe play ONE single game because of those mods or A mod. Totally worth it, all said and done!

With Windows, it feels like I’m stepping into someone else’s home. With Linux, it feels like MY home. :-)

KDE is the best desktop environment I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. So much better than Windows at everything I want out of my desktop!

Very true. When I first ever installed Linux, it was on an old laptop that I wasn’t using for anything serious anyway, so the install process was simple for someone like me, even as a kid. That doesn’t mean I knew what I was doing by any means, but that was something that made me pause to try and decipher what all these words meant on the screen. lol

No problem! I just wanted to see if I might be helpful in some way! Cheers!

Hi there! I have a tiny11 ISO that I always use to install Windows on stuff when needed. I’ve never encountered this issue before. Have you tried using Rufus to put the ISO on the USB? It has options for stuff like that. I can’t say how successful they are, as I guess tiny11 does a lot of that itself?

Hey there! What I do on Linux is use the Thorium browser to make the Apple Music an app in the OS. It works really well, but does have some weird visual glitches every now and then. I chalk that up to me having an NVIDIA GPU and using Wayland though, so it could work better for you!

As for lossless, I am not sure on that as I don’t have ears that can tell the difference so it has never been something I focused on!

Cider also went from an open source project to a closed source project. I stopped using them after that.

You can try Neocities!

Could not have said it better myself. After my trial ended, I realized I was just going to pony up for it. It has probably saved me so much time when I’m doing my own little rabbit hole shenanigans at 2 in the morning when I should have been sleeping 4 hours ago.

You’re the reason I started using Kagi. I was skeptical, but you made me interested. Thanks for that! Nothing else could compete when I was on a search engine tryout marathon!

Cheers!

Same here.

Finding actual answers or at least able to point me in the right direction is way better than any of the other search engines I’ve tried.

DDG, Google, Bing, SearchNX, Ecosia, Brave, and probably some more, they just aren’t even in the same ball field for the things I look up personally.

You’re not dumb! Thank you for the heads up!

I got a Dell computer that was headed for the dump from someone, installed TrueNAS Scale on it, and it has actually replaced my Synology for everything other than straight up storage. Now the Synology does the storage, and everything else is in TrueNAS. It did take me a few lookups to understand the permissions on TrueNAS, as Synology is much easier to set up in that regard. I like the fine grain permissions controls, sure, but it was definitely not user friendly to a complete noob like Synology was.

Thank you so much. Your knowledge is valuable to someone like me, at least!

I would assume the only thing I have exposed is Plex, since that’s the only thing I access outside of my home. I got the backups down pat now (through learning the hard way, unfortunately…). I use MFA for everything that offers it. I never use the same password for anything.

Seems like my trepidation for online stuff has helped me some in this case. I will definitely be checking out the w3schools, so thank you so much for providing that link!

All in all, your words have helped me today at the least, so I very much appreciate you taking your time to respond and help educate me. It means more than you will probably ever know. I don’t have tech people in my life, and have never had that. I’m the only one in any group I interact with that has any slight interest in technology. I learn best when it is under someone who knows what they are talking about or at the very least can provide ways to explain things.

Anyway, again, sincerely, thank you!

I’ll be honest, even this is all new to me. I’ve had troubles wrapping my head around certs and ports, so I’ve always just never even tried anything that would make a port available (as far as I am aware…) so your points have at least reached an audience who appreciates the examples you’ve provided.

Feel free to ignore if you don’t have the mental energy or will to, but where could I find a good source for learning this type of stuff without finding out the hard way like some of those poor people on Shodan? You’ve awakened a fear I didn’t even know I had. lol

If I were you, I wouldn’t even let the others flabbergast you!

Thank you so much for providing so much detail in your comments. I have actually learned a thing or two about Jellyfin. I, like you, am wanting to get off Plex ASAP, but haven’t had the time to sit down and go through with it just yet. Thanks to you, I see those Shodan examples you provided, and the fact that their freaking LOGIN shows up is beyond scary to me.

I appreciate what you have shared. Thank you!

Nope! I have my iPhone always updated to the newest version (unless it is a new revamp like iOS 26 will be).