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Switching from win 11 (feddit.de)
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After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows.

I settled on pop_os for now since it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics out of the box and I am a noob.

Two questions:

  1. I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot. What cloud storage provider has the best Linux integration? I dabbled with NeXtCloUD but the Linux client is not great, especially the file on-demand implementation.

  2. What are best practices for managing apps? The last time I entertained the idea of switching, I ended up with applications installed from the snap store, flatpacks, some appimages, some through apt. It quickly gets confusing for me when I want a specific program but it, f.ex., is only distributed through the snap store. Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they're installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

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[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)
  1. I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot

You can continue to use OneDrive. I use the OneDriver client and it works really well - your drive appears just like a local drive, but files only get downloaded when you try to access them. Once downloaded, it gets cached locally and is available offline, and is kept in sync automatically. Other cloud providers should have similar FUSE clients available.

  1. What are best practices for managing apps?

Best practice is to stick to packages provided by your distro's repos. Flatpak should be your second option if you can't find your app there, and AppImages should be your third option (since Flatpaks are superior as they can share dependencies, unlike AppImages). Avoid Snap. In fact, avoid any distros that even use Snap (*buntu). Also, if you're on a Debian/Ububtu based distro, avoid adding PPAs (thirdparty user repositories) as far as possible, as these can cause dependency issues and may cause pain when you upgrade your distro.

Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications

That should be provided by your distro - Gnome-based ones have "Software" and KDE-based ones have "Discover".

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

This is the best answer, but I would like to just add a tip:

  1. I used OneDrive

Try "Online Accounts" inside settings, should work without installing anything else (I've never tried it, but should work).

ScreenshotOnline Accounts screenshot

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Online Accounts only supports Outlook mail at the moment, so it's not a Onedriver replacement yet.

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