If I were to do that, KDE would personally manifest physically and apologise for its existence. I do not do that yet.

No, I shit on their delusion when they claim KDE is the best and most stable DE. It is like saying the second to finish the race has finished first, which is illogical.

Valve went with KDE not because it is stable, but because user interface can be customised with it catering to gamers. GNOME is more rigid and stable. The exact same reason goes for Arch, quickest firmware and kernel updates to leverage maximum performance per watt and to buy maximum time for optimisation. Arch is not known for stability in the way Debian/Ubuntu LTS are known.

Can I update Fedora without it breaking? Also… KDE? GNOME is a stable, polished and professional DE, none of which KDE is.

• Scrambled EXIF - the simplest upgrade to removing meta data from your photos, when you want to send them to people
• FFShare - the simplest upgrade to removing metadata from your photos/videos AND compressing them when you send or share them with someone. This saves on upload time (upload speeds are often horrible) and bandwidth for both sender and receiver.
• Saber - handwriting notes app for Android
• DiskUsage - disk space analyser and visualiser, with nothing better IMHO
• RootlessJamesDSP - want systemwide Viper4Android but without rooting? This thing needs you to have a degree in audio engineering (lol jk). AutoEQ presets, DSP, convolver, virtual room effects, a crazy equaliser, +15 dB volume gain, its got a bunch of stuff you can customise separately for your phone speakers, different headphones and other connected audio gear.

(yes I might eventually have a long list to update the smartphone guide with solid recommendations)

New included. E/L series are affordable.

Framework is also extremely expensive compared to ThinkPad.

It cannot continue on passion alone. Have you ever worked for a home/family with zero financial need and only passion? Does not work.

NewPipe adding comment replies is the biggest QoL improvement they made. Now I no longer will need to open YouTube in browser to peek at some comments every time. It became a punishing exercise.

Until the day FOSS development does not get recognised as a critical job by governments and global ruling bodies, FOSS will not carry over into the next century. FOSS is barely surviving due to passion, and passion alone does not pay for tummy, let alone families or creating an environment to encourage people to become FOSS developers. People hate donating, so FOSS will die and capitalism will win.

There is no Bill Gates, it is CIA. Stop this one enemy person thing. US government terrorist organisation is behind these things as a whole.

I have extensively benchmarked Zstd and it is a joke compared to LZMA2 when it comes to compression ratio. And not even that, the lack of features Zstd has, that 7Z does have, makes it a far bigger joke. 7Z is a feature complete archival solution unlike Zstd, with possible options for archive repair. RAR is far superior for that bitrot resistance.

The amount of possibilities Facebook and US gov get with backdooring XZ are endless, since it could destroy trust in it if uncaught, and Zstd adoption meant web malware deployment could become a matter of when, because Facebook already does it right now with actual malware JS scripts through fbcdn domain.

Cloudflare deploys Zstd, and many web servers and CDNs use it. Endless possibilities for Facebook and US gov. They can put Yann Collet out of the way or gag order him.

LZMA is the highest compression algorithm outside of PAQ and SuperRep+LOLZ, while being magnitudes faster than both. Zstd compression ratio is a joke and is only good for webpage asset loading times.

My guesses wildly range on this topic.

• Facebook probably wanted Zstd adoption over XZ/LZMA
• There was probably an analysis of who uses LZMA compression a lot, and it so happens that archivists, pirates, people and countries with low bandwidth speeds, people in Russia, game repackers et al use it a lot compared to “good law abiding” money blinded consumers of rich countries
• Somebody wanted to screw over LZMA/XZ/7Z users
• (most favourite right now) implanting a network backdoor into Linux servers and ecosystems
• Someone thought it would be a good idea to troll open source community and make it look worse than closed source, so that closed source security can be popularised (“security” trolls in FOSS community I harp about love such ideas, beware of any Graphene/Chrome/Apple and Big Tech lovers just as example)
• Tying into the idea of making FOSS ecosystem look bad, it might be a concerted effort by closed source company/companies to propel themselves above, as FOSS development is shitting on closed source corporate model
• A different approach, it could be the first step in a series of steps to dismantle FOSS ecosystem, considering how much trust and transparency it has that attracts everyone enlightened enough

I could think of many other scenarios and outcomes if I put enough time, but I think this should be enough food for thought. The beneficiaries are limited, the actors few, and the methods cannot vary too much.

Not open source, but highly trusted for over a decade now, and they provide Linux builds. XNViewMP is going to save your life as far as batch converting images goes, with reliable metadata carryover, and insanely easy GUI. Imagemagick in comparison is like building a rocket by yourself and launching it into space, with no guarantees.

For PDF, I am not sure. I like PDF X-Change Editor on Windows, and it is lifetime offline licensed, no subscriptions. PDF Arranger has good reviews for Linux, it seems. https://alternativeto.net/software/pdf-arranger/about/

In America, everything is right.

The movies you watch are not made on open source stack. Does that make the movies bad?

OP said less known…

Tree Style Tabs?

I will not dog anyone on using Floorp or all these forks, but… just take 10 minutes and harden Firefox yourself? Transparent process, and you learn a few things by doing the utmost minimum things. What if Librewolf tomorrow goes closed or adds weird stuff like that Chrome fork Thorium? Firefox will not.