Ctrl+F’d for this.

I’m not sure if you can show/hide like that, but as a workaround you can toggle auto-hiding with a qdbus command, and set a keyboard shortcut to run that.

I think OP said

if a window is fullscreen

as opposed to simply being maximized.

That’s awesome, I didn’t realize that ResidualVM had merged with ScummVM.

Don’t miss this entire genre: classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure games! Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle and Monkey Island are a few of the stand-outs for me, and they all run on Linux via the amazing ScummVM.

Skipping the OS backup is reasonable, but you probably want to at least save a package list. Add something like dpkg -l > ~/packages.txt to your backup script.

This may depend on browser but you can double-tap a paragraph to quickly zoom the page so the text is full-width. Of course there’s also pinch-zoom or reader mode…

Oh, good point. If I was being brand-proper I’d spell it “reMarkable”… but, lol, not doing that.

Settings/customizations file for legendary text editor vim. Remarkable’s comes with a lot of stuff built-in.

I was referring specifically to Remarkable-brand devices… but Kobos are nice too, with that company also being indifferent to aftermarket hacks.

Remarkable eink tablets. Buried deep in the settings they actually give you the root password so you can SSH in. Also, it comes with an epic .vimrc file.

You’re going to have a web browser installed, right? .epub files are just zips with HTML/images/CSS inside. Just find the HTML file with named “toc” and go from there.

Happy to hear if there are glaring problems with this approach, but if you can assume files named with version numbers, you can use a script to always launch the newest…

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x $(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)
./$(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)

Or you could change the script to sort by file modified date and launch the newest.

edit: Discovered an issue with version numbering like .10 and learned about the sort -V switch that fixes it!

I appreciate your thoughtful and insightful reply, and you’re definitely better-versed in Elementary OS than I’ve ever been! To be clear, my comments weren’t coming from a place of dislike but frustration, because there had been a time when I found myself drawn to the project and hoped it could be something I could actually use.

Even as my ideas about functionality and minimalism completely flipped (these days I really prefer the KDE approach) I held onto the hope that Elementary could still become the best that the Linux world had to offer newcomers arriving with no preconceived ideas about what software should be able to do. (If such people actually exist, but that’s another discussion.)

But my various pokings around the surface of Elementary OS over the years always reveal bugs, iffy UX, etc. To use your terms, it always seemed coherent to me, but far from polished. I don’t see the upside to having such a limited feature set when it doesn’t lead to basic stability, good documentation and so on. (By the way, I learned via Wikipedia yesterday that one of Elementary OS’s core principles is “minimal documentation”.)

P.S. I’m glad you brought up Miller columns. I didn’t know the term, but they’re actually a perfect example of what I’ll call the “Mac but sucky” quality of Elementary OS. Try this exercise: if you’re browsing an empty folder, switch to columns view. You get three empty panes, possibly leaving a typical user unsure of what this unfamiliar mode even meant to be. (I think this was the experience I alluded to yesterday, where I thought to press F1 for help and took me to a StackOverflow tag.) For an example of what the file manager should do when switching to columns in an empty folder… I mean, all the devs needed to do is try the same thing on a Mac. And just copy that. It’s clear they’re familiar with the looks, but not the “works.”

Elementary OS. People who have apparently only seen MacOS in screenshots went to a lot of trouble to copy it poorly.

edit: I was expecting to get more than a couple of downvotes, or maybe at least one person asking me what I don’t like about Elementary OS. So I preemptively downloaded the latest stable version, installed it in a VM and used it for 30 minutes or so before posting this comment. It had been a few years since I looked at it, and continues to be exactly what I have come to expect.

This represents maybe half of the issues I came across doing really basic stuff for 30 minutes.

When people complain about duplication of effort within the free software world, I usually don’t agree. I think it’s usually fine if people want to spend their time writing a whole new thing for a specific or niche use-case! But if this is where things are after (checks Wikipedia) 12 years…

This came up a few days ago in another community, and it sounds like the poster may have actually had a similar use-case to your own.

For one thing, both Unstable and Stable are quicker to get security fixes than Testing.

This should address the official recommendation that users don’t update from Bullseye to Bookworm, but instead do a fresh install. But no, just a low-effort how-to.

It would be great if they provided more details. Are the issues specific to desktop usage? And to work around it, is it enough to start with a fresh home directory?

A lot of them may have commented on the first post.