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?

  • @alyth@lemmy.world
    9•7 months ago

    1. Mount a remote file system via SMB or NFS and it’ll work like any folder on your PC - but you need a network connection to access it. If you need offline mode, maybe create a folder /offline and replicate it to your hard drive with a bidirectional synchronization tool like unison or syncthing. As for providers, personally I use Hetzner Sotrage Box because the price and service looks good enough to me that I didn’t bother to look for alternatives.

    2. KDE Discover is a GUI application for adding/removing packages from different sources