Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I've never looked at Silverstone, but most of their designs are not half bad.

Also, having the side panel off is the coolest thing you could have in a case. Reminds me of my childhood when my much older brother and my much much older father, both of whom were computer engineers at the time, were constantly tinkering with the home computer so the side panel was always off :D

Yeah I keep running into similar issues when trying to build pretty much anything on windows; for stuff that can’t be ‘nicely’ configured & dependency-managed through an IDE, windows is pure pain.

You seem to be right. It finally compiled successfully a few minutes ago, installed pygobject successfully, following the instructions and it claims the gi module could not be found, even though pip lists it as installed. I really don't know how Windows developers deal with such things. Do they just avoid known bad libraries?

As for installing Python itself; I think I’d stick with the plain installer from python.org, and afterwards, pip. In case of dependencies that are hard to get through PyPi, I think anaconda might be worth looking at as well: https://www.anaconda.com/download

I've decided on following the exact steps in the wingtk guide, as my attempts to deviate from them resulted in quicker failure, hence installing it through choco.

It really sounds like PySide would fit your use case better. Check out this website for a great starting point: https://www.pythonguis.com/pyqt6/ – the author also has an entire book on packaging PySide programs for cross-platform distribution.

While I'm sure Qt may be a better option, this project is a companion app to my PhD thesis to make the algorithms discussed somewhat easily available to a somewhat general audience and is completely unpaid so I really don't feel like learning a new GUI framework for it. Maybe I'll make a quick and ugly pysimplegui UI for Windows users.

Anyway, I'm sorry for ranting. Thank you so much for the suggestions and explanations! It's really appreciated.

i got a Fujitsu D556/2 (SFF as well) exactly because it seemed to have an optical drive bay. Turned out it does not have one, but some double sided tape and ugly cable management solved the issue for me :D.

Mobile rack is just what these things seem to be called. Basically it's just a cage that fits multiple 2.5" drives into a CD/DVD drive bay.

Maybe give FileBrowser a shot. It's not very fast, but it's very easy to setup and keeps your folder structure intact.

Even their old flagships are still quite good. I'm currently daily driving two 7 years old Mi6 phones with Lineage, because you just can't find a small phone nowadays.

I'm not completely sure about it, but I believe both TF2 and HL2 are native ports that Valve did themselves. Could be the reason.

I'm glad you've liked it, and I hope it runs nicely from HDD.

If you decide to keep Budgie I highly recommend the window shuffler extension that helps with arranging windows.

Thank you for the kind wodrs. Sadly I'm not looking for an app for myself but for my girlfriend.

I got my BA in the UK years ago, and I've made a fool of myself plenty of times, both culturally and linguistically. And you're absolutely right, it really is the only way to properly learn a language.

I fully agree with you about having real conversations with real people. The thing is, you need some confidence before being able to speak the language, especially to native speakers. And for some people that comes with a bit of practice by themselves. Thats what I find apps like Duolingo help with.

I'm not rrleally sure how calash clients work, but maybe you can sync them manually with something like Syncthing.

This is what I use as well. As it does not come with any cloud storage (a feature imo) I sync it with syncthing - another great foss, privacy-friendly project.