I'm running Pop on my living room pc and it's fine, looking forward to Cosmic when it arrives. Also have Linux Mint cinnamon on my bedroom pc. Been thinking of going back to Arch, but i'm lazy so i'll stick with what i have unless i get annoyed enough to switch.
Rhythmbox and Strawberry are the best, IMO. Rhythmbox has a lower impact on system resources but Strawberry is ideal for people with extensive music collections that you store offline like I do.
Do u have installed gnome-keyring or kwallet and running it on the system? Also from know cases,nm-applet should installed and executed. bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246698
Foobar2000 has been here for YEAAAARS, and I don’t think there is a good enough equivalent for linux, and by that I mean playlist tabs, global shortcuts, etc
Am on LMDE6 with an ancient Nvidia card. Because I've had to resort to using the Nvidia OEM driver installer (which can be a pain to use), installed Xorg updates lurk quietly until a full reboot at which point they generally cause offloading of GPU tasks to the CPU instead because it hasn't figured things out properly.
Timeshift has been useful at least twice in getting me back to a less stressed system.
I think I have a procedure figured out now though (documented here for posterity even if it helps no-one today):
Make a Timeshift snapshot just in case
Install the pending Xorg update
Reboot so it's fully active
Check to see if GPU tasks are being offloaded to the CPU by doing something graphics intensive and noting temperatures or usage%. If not, a miracle has occurred and continuing isn't needed.
sudo remove the execute permission on /usr/bin/Xorg so that it can't immediately be restarted by subsystems designed to protect the average Mint user from command lines and consoles.
Kill Xorg
Log in through a console, via Ctrl+Alt+F1 or similar if not dumped to one by killing Xorg.
Re-install the Nvidia OEM driver
sudo put the aforementioned execute permission back on
Repeat steps 2 and 3 and hope that this time the GPU is doing the work.
Reboots ought to be replaceable by running specific commands, but I haven't gone deep enough into things to know the right things to do there. Reboots are quick and easy enough.
Obvious intermediate steps include not doing anything else important during this and saving important work before starting.
e.g. did you know it's possible to bookmark all open tabs? Well worth looking into.
Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven’t found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.
Can I be ridiculous here and say that a nook e-reader or kobo e-reader, and a steamdeck would suffice?
Maybe just a kobo?
I know it’s not Linux and that’s what you asked for, but at the end of 2022 when I looked into this I had a hard time finding Linux tablet with a good UX.
E-reader sounds like good advice though, unless they really need colour (e.g. are planning to mainly read comics). MEGA sync probably won’t work, but Pocket might be good enough?
Kobo’s are basically Linux, and have quite a few customisation options.
I had reasoning for the steam deck when I wrote that but I’m struggling to recall why. There was some niche with Linux for it since it has good support for Linux applications but I can’t remember how I thought it would fit
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