My Fedora Workstation journey continues. As expected, I’ve had several problems.
ProtonVPN doesn’t have a Linux app and had to be installed via CLI which wasn’t much of a problem but the thing had to be started manually. I solved this by installing and app, Gnome Tweaks, which forces any app the user selects to start at boot.
Encase Proton’s killswitch fails I bound QBitTorrent to the vpn.
For notes I switched to Joplin. Very nice on a laptop, so so on Android. For now, I’m exporting notes and copying them to my phone using either a thumb drive or Proton Drive.
No Linux app for Proton Drive but I did discover if I have Drive open in a browser and Files open I can drag and drop files into the drive. Who needs an app, not me.
No more Chromium browsers for me (except Vanadium). I’m using Firefox for log in sites and LibreWolf as my “forgetful” browser.
Fedora can’t play AC3 sound. I gave up on fixing this after a few days. Every site and forum I visited posts the same canned line of code which doesn’t work.
Freetube is what I’m using for Youtube. It stopped playing videos 4 times this week. Changing my vpn server seems to fix the issue.
Dad was having issues with his stock Pixel 6a. I used his Chromebook to flash GrapheneOS. Being signed into his Google account, he didn’t gain on his privacy (he doesn’t care) but I’m learning about problems when GOS and Google interact. Knowledge is a win.
Edit: I got Syncthing on Linux and Syncthing-Fork on Android working together. happy happy joy joy.