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Switching from win 11 (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

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.
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?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (13 children)

After convincing my employer to move away from MS office

I'm curious how you managed that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

See my comment below, we're moving to gsuite. Basically, we have a problem with people not using the SharePoint but instead sending poorly version numbered documents per mail.
My argument was that if you're forced to work online you're more likely to do so in the shared folder. We'll see if that's true but at least we can get rid of office. Most of the organisation is on macOS anyway. And we use zulip for communication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could you just mount google drive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there a good solution for that? It seems like most of the projects to do that have been abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is natively supported in most desktops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I use the KDE integration, but it seems to create a new path every time I open a file. That breaks the recent file list in apps.

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