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?

  • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Just wondering, does seafile cache the previously opened files locally, in case I don’t have internet.

    OneDrive does this on Windows and I’ve been looking for something similar and self hosted.

    • BCsven
      2·
      8 months ago

      Yes, you can set if they stay local, download all, etc

      • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Can it automatically keep them for a certain amount of time after I’ve opened them though?

        I’ll definitely be trying out seafile eventually!

        • BCsven
          2·
          8 months ago

          The Seadrive has a cli setting for size of cache amd how long before cleaning. There is also Seafile Client which has a lot more options of different folder and file sync capabilities like the context menus in Windows Onedrive. Try them both out and see eaht fits your use better