Found my homie!!

There appears to be a flatpak for edmc, maybe that would be easier than using wine?

https://flathub.org/apps/io.edcd.EDMarketConnector

A lot of the time the version of wine will cause issues with the application, so if you have something working, stick with it.

It would be worthwhile to look into a wine prefix manager like lutris or bottles for gaming. Regular apps can benefit also, but I am not up to speed on anything not for gaming.

Yeah, voting with your dollar definitely will make the change, just buy something else and struggle a bit harder, that change is right around the corner /s

You own it, like the mortgage is paid or you rent from the bank still?

Edit: for clarity, my comment is mostly directed at ublue or universal blue, which is what bluefin is based on.

I think the really value comes from the ability to easily roll new custom images and for the community to collaborate on those images to produce images that require minimal layering after the application locally.

Oh sure, I just didn’t want to reference every miracast project, I suppose it is worth throwing a link for miraclecast out there though, since that seems like one of the most popular. I believe the GNOME desktop environment also had an effort to support miracast standard.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast

I just wanted to point out that fcast seems to have done their own thing when there were some efforts already in play, which is totally fine. I was just surprised I didn’t see an entry in their FAQ like “How is fcast different from X?”.

Weird, I thought there were already a few open casting projects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast

https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

Awesome! Can’t wait to hear the official release and if it will end up being a separate release or not.

Oh yeah, I saw this on Ubuntu touch also. I’ll see if I can get the flathub repo loaded in. That will certainly increase the variety in apps I can use!

I just received mine after waiting 3+ years actually. It is pretty sweet with waydroid and KDE connect. I’m still not daily driving it because of the lack of a maps application with navigation though.

Beeper provides a free service to bridge all your chats into the same place, including traditionally secure applications like signal with end to end encryption. By using beeper, you are letting them decrypt all your signal chats and re-encrypt them on their servers. I wouldn’t trust a paid service with my privacy on this level, much less a free one. An alternative model could have installed the bridging and stuff directly on your device in the app, but from a usability standpoint that becomes less convenient especially when trying to port all the chat applications to all the platforms. They are just a hosting service for open source bridges with a nice closed source client.

My sympathies lol. I’ve been a long time Linux user. Sometimes my experience can be optimistic but in this case I remember things working pretty well. Definitely post your experience here and feel free to DM if you need a hand with something.

Everything was pretty smooth after getting the right GNOME extensions installed for me. In the project wiki there is even an archlinux repo so you don’t need to compile the packages from the AUR. The stylus was the only troublesome part, but like I said, I think my stylus has issues, so I don’t think I can blame it on the Linux setup.

It was a good time getting the UI tuned in and customized. I had no idea so many good extensions existed for GNOME.

I ran archlinux using the software and kernel in that repo for my surface pro 4. It worked great. Additionally I found GNOME desktop to work well, particularly with some extensions like toggles for rotation, on-screen-keyboard and other stuff you’d find on a phone. I also setup pop shell and cosmic for tiling window management, but paperWM might be better for this these days.

I should not that I had some troubles with the stylus. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not and if I used configuration tools it would sometimes help or sometimes make it worse. That said, I think my stylus is a little screwed up. There is a lot of good info in getting the stylus working and troubleshooting it, you should be able to get it working, for me it was always just a matter of time before I had to fuss with it.

The problems you describe are due to capitalism: profit motivated commerce. The open source business model has a focus that monetizes the human actions that are a value-add, such as continued development of targeted features, tech support and other things it makes sense to pay for specialized knowledge, but the tangibles are still open for all to modify, audit or use as they want.