cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

Currently... Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

Then resurrect it. Give it life by posting to it. 😏

Void is NOT based on Arch. It was an original distro created by an ex-NetBSD dev. But yeah, I'd recommend it too.

Have the PinePhone and PP Pro. Partial to SailfishOS on both. It has the most smartphone feel if you will. Like with most the camera is pretty much a no go but I rarely use them anyway.

Have an X1 Carbon with SIM slot. Been meaning for ages to do something with that. This gave me nudge. :-)

I ditched my carriers about a year or so ago. Ported two numbers over to JMP.chat and all has been good. Contacts integration and using the standard Phone to make calls works well. Agreed, too, the support is great. Nice bunch of folks.

There's a few guides or articles that might be helpful.

How to Replace Your Carrier on Android Using These Fully Open-Source Tools

Set up your Internet Phone Number (JMP.chat) with Cheogram

Dialer integration is possible using the Cheogram client but the monocles chat client is now based on Cheogram & Conversations so one could use that also. It might have a few extra options/features.

Sounds like one of those Why Waa Waa questions. There's currently only six browsers listed, at the moment. It's not some all inclusive thing.

Where's Fennec, where's IronFox, where's WebLibre, where's Cromite or Helium or Tor Browser or or...?

Give these kinds of lists and the organizers time to check and test things or get additional feedback.

I used Garuda in the past and was impressed. What's cool is they have a bunch of ther own services in addition to Lemmy.

Garuda Linux | Startpage - https://start.garudalinux.org/

I have a triple boot laptop with MX Linux, Void Linux, and OpenBSD on an old laptop where VMing wouldn't work so well.

As others have pointed out a shared home directory is not a good idea. Shared data (documents, music, images, etc.) would be fine as mentioned previously.

Can use it as a launcher also I guess. Termux Expert Launcher.

Way back when DOSLinux existed the dev provided a Midnight Commander with a fully loaded F2 menu as well as setup associations. Could literally do almost anything and everything from within the file manager. I later moved the configs over to Slackware and pretty much lived in MC to get things done. At some point the MC code reduced the number of entries in the F2 menu so I would have to rebuild it to remove the limitation.

No longer use it like that today but MC is used constantly for file management locally and remotely (mostly to a Kodi box).

Using OFMs (Norton/Volkov/Midnight Commanders and FAR) has always been easier and faster to use than Explorer-style GUI FMs for me.

Oops, sorry. 😬

TEL

If one decides to mess with it, some notes. Last release was awhile back. I don't use Android 12/13 so no idea how well it works there.

Tel and Tel:API have same package names as Termux and Termux:API. Meaning there should be no trace of Termux on system before trying.

Not really battery friendly when using the default status info up top.

Powerful command line environment. Recommend that one is familiar / comfortable with the CLI.

I have Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 3. I kinda like it. Initially rotation wasn't working but once fixed it was cool.

Had also tried KDE Neon but don't recall why I went back to Fedora.

Yes, ThinkPad is great for Linux. Only had/have a few but always a pleasure to use. So reliable. Plus I really don't like touchpads so ThinkPads for the win. Even have two ThinkPad standalone keyboards (one wireless, one wired) for when I hook up to a mobile device, media box, or mini PC.

T21, Pentium III - Slackware 12 & Windows XP

SL510 2847DKU - MX Linux 21.2.1_(respin) FVWM_Ext, OpenBSD, and Void Linux

E15 Gen 3, AMD Ryzen 7 - Slackware 15

X1 Carbon Gen 3, Intel Core i7 - Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

Anyone know if it's possible to use the SIM slot in the X1 Carbon? Also, any recommendations for an alternate distro that is ideal for that laptop/tablet combo?

Just for tinkering so far. I have a habit of tossing the devices aside for long periods of time when an OS breaks badly. 😁

Technically SailfishOS handles most of the requirements to make the device a daily-driver-in-training. All but one of my Android devices are VoIP now. Getting away from carrier-based stuff (and saving money). At the moment there isn't really anything usable on the mobile linux side (SIP, calls via XMPP - I have JMP.chat numbers) that I am aware of. On SFOS that is. Though I can use movim via browser.

Guess it is time I took the devices seriously and try to use them more regularly.

If you are rooted with Magisk then you can install an alternate webview. As mentioned the Bromite webview is stalled. Mulch webview (from DivestOS) is regularly updated and has been added to Open WebView module.

I use Mulch SystemWebView Overlay on my ROMs. It is a straight flashable zip but with alternate ways of installing if it does not work (like via adb). A Magisk module is also available. I use Mulch webview on all ROMs including Oreo. I do not run OEM stock so no comments/ideas on that front.

Once the webview is installed and visible it can be updated regularly using your preferred F-Droid client with Divest OS repo added.

GitHub - A4Alpha/mulch-webview-overlay: Easily install the security-hardened Mulch SystemWebView from DivestOS

Got Void running on an old laptop about a year ago. Very nice. The fact that it is not based on any of the others also made it appealing.

True. Luckily I don't have anything large (4GB+). I do plan to change the filesystem. I forgot to mention that I used to have Windows 7 on that old laptop. The other reason why the shared partition was FAT32/vfat.

I have/had a bunch of these books. Some got lost but I have the electronic versions of them.

This is one other book I fondly remember. UNIX For Application Developers. From 1991 I think. I vaguely remember a statement in the intro along the lines of Windows being user friendly but UNiX being expert friendly. :-)

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