Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

I think OP is referring to Fog Panther, I just saw this yesterday in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.fogpanther.FogPanther. It definitely appears to be some jackass selling a blatant GIMP clone.

you can’t beat them, join them

Saruman was not supposed to be a role model.

Do people expect the price to go down?

Actually yeah that would be great. After all, Netflix is raking in more profit than ever (this chart represents earnings after expenses are removed):

That’s billions. Billions of dollars every year that’s just… extra. Where the fuck are they wasting all this money that requires them to raise prices instead of lowering them?

I mean, we all know it goes to funding the Epstein class and making the world a worse place for everyone else, but it should go towards making their service better and cheaper.

Let’s stop normalizing the predatory nature of capitalism, and instead be surprised when people don’t expect better.

My 2013 Dell XPS laptop is still running beautifully with Fedora 43 too! Honestly, it’s amazing how much life a piece of old hardware can have with Linux running on it.

Sorry that Cyberpunk didn’t work for you, that’s understandably frustrating. I hope you get what you want from your return to Windows.

If you ever decide to try Linux again, you might benefit from asking people for assistance before you get so frustrated. I’ve personally played Cyberpunk for hundreds of hours on Linux, so I know it certainly does work. There’s probably something going on with that specific repack you’re using that makes it weird to get running.

That looks like Ubuntu, which I believe uses a modified version of Nautilus for the file manager. Hitting CTRL-L (for “location”) should give you a path bar to type into.

Not strictly “out of the box” since the setting isn’t enabled by default, but any distro with a recent version of GNOME installed will have RDP available. It’s ready to be toggled on in settings under System > Remote Desktop > Desktop Sharing:

Unfortunately, RDP always seems to be fiddly for me, it does that disconnect immediately after connecting that you described. Sometimes if I just keep hitting connect over and over, eventually it’ll get confused and stop disconnecting so that I can actually use the desktop for a while. YMMV.

Most stuff that runs on Windows is uninteresting because there are superior free alternatives on Linux, but in the cases where I needed it, Bottles is great.

I’m not sure what people are referring to in other comments when they say Bottles has “jank”, but for me it works very nicely for the few apps I occasionally need to use it for: Daz3D (just worked), jDownloader (just worked), and Affinity (followed this guide and it worked easily).

I agree! Though, I think the OP is a bot judging by it’s post history, despite not marking itself as one.

I don’t understand the concern, domain names are cheap and easy to get, they can just keep using new ones. Why does it matter if they lose the ones they have?

Piratebay used to do the domain dance all the time back in the day (and maybe still do).

Most of the paid plugins I’ve messed with have code to phone home and prevent operation if there’s not a paid license of some sort.

However, before you bother trying to put effort into pirating those, I recommend making certain that what you want isn’t already freely available a different way. Many paid plugins have decent open source and free alternative plugin(s) that can be used instead. You just have to look hard enough in the plugin listing. The WordPress ecosystem is vast, but there are a ton of smarmy assholes charging monthly subscriptions for plugins that replicate features provided by free plugins and hoping you won’t notice.

I’m not trying to convince you to like something you don’t, and KDE is a fucking great suite of software.

However, it does sound like maybe you haven’t used GNOME in quite a long time. It does have various customizations built in that are available to users through the settings UI these days, and “tweaks that barely work” isn’t really a representative critique of the general ecosystem anymore.

GNOME’s extension platform is very mature at this point, and I’ve personally used a bunch of the same extensions for years now spanning like 10 major releases of GNOME without issue. Yeah, the little fly-by-night extensions that get two point releases and then are abandoned don’t work forever, but that’s true of a lot of old software, and is probably a good thing, honestly.

I tried the new version of the app (1.3.1) and it works a little better. As mentioned in my other comment, the app tries by default to write to my home directory, which fails. However, if I manually tell the app to use ~/Downloads instead, then it works!

On the other hand, closing and relaunching the app again clears out what I’ve manually configured and it tries to write to my home directory again until I change it every time.

(Also, apologies, I should be reporting to your issue tracker instead.)

Hey, sure no problem. I don’t actually have a Music folder ordinarily since I keep my music in a network location instead.

$ flatpak run --command=bash net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
[📦 net.fhannenheim.musicfetch ~]$ xdg-user-dir MUSIC
/home/luke

Flatseal shows that the app has requested permission to access xdg-music, which in my case is my home directory. I would assume that means it should be able to write there, but maybe the “All user files” toggle being off supercedes that? I’m not sure how flatpak permissions work, exactly.

Hey, thanks for the response! I tried again with the recent update (--version says 1.2.1) and still having the problem. The button you refer to opens my file manager in the system root directory, instead of the download directory shown in settings which is now by default set to my home folder instead of ~/Music like in the prior version.

To recreate, I ran the app from the CLI and searched the videos tab for “flowers”, then clicked download on the top result. The metadata pages had blank values (are they supposed to populate automatically somehow?), and I clicked through until I got to the final page below.

~$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch --version
musicfetch_gui 1.2.1
~$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[2026-01-28T19:22:43Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app] Starting download of 1 songs
[2026-01-28T19:22:43Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] running yt-dlp with args ["--ignore-config", "-x", "-f", "ba", "-o", "/tmp/musicfetch/%(id)s.%(ext)s", "--load-info-json", "-", "-O", "after_move:filepath", "--progress-template", "download:%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s-%(progress.total_bytes)s-%(progress.downloaded_bytes_estimate)s", "--newline", "--progress"]
[2026-01-28T19:22:44Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] All songs downloaded
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] reading filetype from path /tmp/musicfetch/G7KNmW9a75Y.opus
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] filepath extension: Some("opus")
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] moving song to: //1 - .opus
[2026-01-28T19:22:52Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] creating parent dir: /

PS: I tried again with another song (Big Boogie - Shut Up) that seems to have metadata available from however MusicFetch is finding metadata. The logs are slightly different in that it seems to attempt to save the file where it is configured to do so (the home folder), but there’s still not actually a file saved in that location when I click to open in my file manager:

$ flatpak run net.fhannenheim.musicfetch
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[2026-01-28T19:31:10Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app] Starting download of 1 songs
[2026-01-28T19:31:10Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] running yt-dlp with args ["--ignore-config", "-x", "-f", "ba", "-o", "/tmp/musicfetch/%(id)s.%(ext)s", "--load-info-json", "-", "-O", "after_move:filepath", "--progress-template", "download:%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s-%(progress.total_bytes)s-%(progress.downloaded_bytes_estimate)s", "--newline", "--progress"]
[2026-01-28T19:31:11Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::download] All songs downloaded
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] reading filetype from path /tmp/musicfetch/B9RNRhoUr6E.opus
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::tagwriter] filepath extension: Some("opus")
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] moving song to: /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up/1 - Shut Up.opus
[2026-01-28T19:31:17Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::modules::rename] creating parent dir: /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up
[2026-01-28T19:31:23Z INFO  musicfetch_gui::app::update] Opening directory at /home/luke
    /Big Boogie/Shut Up

Edit: forgot to mention, I’m using Fedora Workstation 43, in case that’s relevant for you.

Good luck with the app, it’s a really good idea!

I had similar problems where the logs say it moved the file to my Music directory, but the directory was empty. I made multiple attempts using different directories and making sure the app has permissions with flatseal, but no luck.

It seems like a nice app though, I’m gonna keep an eye on it!

You could use something like WinBoat to make installing and using a virtual machine for Windows a lot easier. It also makes Windows apps feel almost like they are native to your Linux desktop, which is nice.

Alternatively, you could try running Excel in wine using Bottles, but I’m not sure how well that’ll go since Excel is kind of a monster of an application.

No, we don’t force anyone to do anything, electric replacements are offered as a “free” upgrade. We’re a housing cooperative, so technically it’s not free, but it’s paid for by the community’s collective funds.

The other main problem is that people routinely forget to turn off their stoves. We’ve had the fire department come multiple times this year alone because someone left their gas on and filled their unit with it. One resident left his gas open for who knows how long before he passed out in his living room and shit himself. Luckily someone found him and called the paramedics.

I guess if it was one person living in the wilderness and they blew themselves up or suffocated, then that’s on them. In a community though, it endangers everyone nearby.

Gas is not safe.

Speaking as a board member in a housing community where we are actively dealing with residents who claim that their precious gas stoves are safe and they don’t want electric replacements, I appreciate this post being shared.