It should. My comment was in relation to point 2, as I stated in the comment.

“Working” is not what I would call that. The “Features” list is full of broken stuff and only 1 works and 1 partial.

Booting, yes. Working, not really.

2. This will only work until the package containing the sounds gets updated again, then it’s back to square one.

Only reason I got it, was because it was cheaper than the Red Hat one and my employer just needed me to get a Linux certificate. So the cheapest was what I got.

Plasma/KDE decided it should be the default a long time ago and the X11 session has been in maintenance mode ever since.

As far as I understand it, it’s more of a push to wayland by default and not about harming x11 users. I for one would like to avoid having kwin-x11 pushed to my system.

It’s up to the distro maintainers to package it for the distros. Not the software developer. I see it’s available in the AUR, so it’s not only available as a flatpak. So ascii.-draw does fit your criteria.

You can also build it yourself if you know how (they list the use of gnome-builder for this).

If flatpak is not an option, then you need to specify what packaging platforms are applicable.

Pretty sure KDE Plasma lets you change just about anything in the UI and has theme support.

Back in the old days there was UNetBootin. Maybe it still works?

And for Ubuntu there is Wubi.

Devin has previously delivered what he says he’s gonna do, so I’m certain this is on it’s way. Might take longer than the Summer Of Code runs for, but it will get there.

Sure, just stating what OP mentioned.

OP stated that a VM is not feasable because of ressources on the PC.

I’m afraid they have to install Windows again, if work is not able to provide a device for this function. I have not heard of any solution for reliable iTunes functionality on Linux. :(

Imagine the feeling when “you just click the .exe and everything installs itself” works for everyone but you. It doesn’t matter that downloading executables from random websites is way worse than a proper package manager in pretty much every way.

If this is your aim, you can’t really do that with Linux. Better stick with Windows in this case, as that’s the only place where this works.

So Alpaca still gives functional answers if you turn off your internet connection?

In the end the creator of the game kindly send me links to AUR packages that other people had done for his other projects so I could see what they had done and I did and did the same, which was to put the files in the locations recommended by the specs like /etc and /usr, and to added a post-install message telling the user to copy/paste some commands to copy the files in $HOME. It’s a bit clunky but I guess it works 🥳

Curious, if it was the tui-mines and tui-sudoku packages you took inspiration from? If that’s the case, then those are packages I maintain.

I chose to do some AUR packages, because I wanted to learn how to package for Arch, packaging guidelines and get a routine going.

I believe the reason to not mess with $HOME in packaging, is because of security. $HOME is the users private stash. To put stuff in there, from packaging, means you invade their private space and users should be able to decide what they want “dumped” in there. So just installing a package, should not put stuff in a users home folder.

Have you tried ESC ?

Bluetooth is not secure. OP is not looking for security, just bluetooth audio.

Because they went about it the wrong way. They made their own distro, their own office suite etc. I believe they would have been successful, if they just used already existing stuff, instead of reinventing the wheel and taking on all the development obligations.

What Schleswig-Holstein is doing, is using en established distro, with established office suite and established cloud solution. They only maintain the servers and maybe patch-fix issues, which they could then upstream.

Firefox disables some 3d acceleration stuff on Linux, where it’s enabled by default on Windows.

So look through your about:config about:support for any acceleration stuff that’s disabled. You might be able to enable them.