<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">f/up questions: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To Sveinn: </div><div class="">Thanks for the proposal. I know PPA exist generally, but I have not learned how they work. One general concern I have, can I trust PPA? PPA is as I understand developed (or whatever term is best to use) by someone else than the developer. Can I trust a PPA has not manipulated the code? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To Christian: </div><div class="">I know Manjaro exist and is curious to one day install and explore it. Maybe it is as easy as Mint to use and good for me. One thing I like with Mint is their tools for system maintenance like update manager incl kernel cleanup, firmware check manager and more. </div><div class="">I have noted that Manjaro is available with Xfce, which I probably would go for. </div><div class="">Another concern is if I can uncertain if I really can install software .deb or .rpm on Manjaro? I doubt it is one-click installation. As examples I give two photography sw I use: a) Corel AfterShot Pro 3, in my license I have .rpm and .deb (in addition to the macOS version I currently use) b) VueScan. From their website, I can download .deb, .rpm, and .tgz. Are those two examples easy to get working on Manjaro? Or will a better environment for digiKam in Manjaro mean I will have worse environment for some other sw? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Paul Polillo, sorry if I take your query a bit outside of your original question, but hopefully it is somewhat useful information for you as well.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By the way, the Linux Format magazine rated Pop!_OS as best Linux desktop 2022.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class="">Henrik</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">27 juni 2022 kl. 19:11 skrev CD.Graesser <<a href="mailto:cd.graesser@gmail.com" class="">cd.graesser@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Because of the lag of updates I moved away from ubuntu based distro to Manjaro with KDE, which is user friendly and easy to use/install. The packages are then maintained by Arch and often only a few days after release available.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Christian </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Sveinn í Felli <<a href="mailto:sv1@fellsnet.is" class="">sv1@fellsnet.is</a>> schrieb am Mo., 27. Juni 2022, 17:53:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Henrik,<br class="">
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The vanilla software-repositories for Linux Mint and most Ubuntu-based <br class="">
distros are sometimes lagging seriously behind official digiKam versions.<br class="">
Fortunately there are enthusiastic packagers who distribute new versions <br class="">
quite rapidly via PPA-repos, which you can install. I'm using digiKam <br class="">
7.7.0 on Mint 20.2 via the <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/savoury1" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://ppa.launchpad.net/savoury1</a> repository.<br class="">
<br class="">
Installed through PPA's is considered ”native”.<br class="">
<br class="">
best regards,<br class="">
Sveinn<br class="">
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Þann 27.6.2022 14:13, skrifaði Henrik Hemrin:<br class="">
> Hi,<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Help me to understand:<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I am not very experienced, I have been tryingg out Linux for a few years and plan to use it as daily driver (to replace macOS). My primary GNU/Linux is Linux Mint. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu (although there also is a version LMDE based on Debian).<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I use the digiKam AppImage. DigiKam exist also in the Mint repository (I mean also as ”native”, not only snap or flat), but relatively old version and I have therefore I have decided to use AppImage. In my experience, digiKam AppImage works well on Ubuntu-based Mint.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> VLC, I have installed from Mint repository (”native”, not flat or snap). So on Ubuntubased Mint, I can get VLC without Snap or Flat (I have not checked how up to date the version is).<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I have not tried to real question below, if VLC can start from within digiKam or not. Nor have I tried Pop!_OS.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> So my concern is why it is difficult to understand for me that I should not use digiKam with any Ubuntubased distro? To me, Mint is generally such a good distro for me, so pity if it is not good for the digiKam application. Will it be better if I go for Debian/Debian based distro?<br class="">
> <br class="">
> (This reply is somewhat out of topic of the question from Paul)<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Best regards<br class="">
> Henrik<br class="">
> <br class="">
> <br class="">
> <br class="">
>> 27 juni 2022 kl. 06:31 skrev Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="">
>><br class="">
>> The problems start that Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu does not provide<br class="">
>> native packages for digiKam. digiKam's snap packages are useless, the snap<br class="">
>> package format is a sandboxed container. With digiKam in a snap package you<br class="">
>> hardly have the possibility to access files outside of your home area. Since<br class="">
>> VLC is also a snap package, it becomes even more difficult to start it. I can't<br class="">
>> even recommend our AppImage since VLC is only available as a snap package.<br class="">
>> Look for a modern KF5 plasma based Linux distribution in which digiKam is<br class="">
>> natively available.<br class="">
>><br class="">
>> Maik<br class="">
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>> Am Montag, 27. Juni 2022, 02:47:01 CEST schrieb Paul Polillo:<br class="">
>>> I'm trying to figure out to make videos play in VLC using F4 or "Open<br class="">
>>> With..." or some other method (I think I saw something about Alt +<br class="">
>>> Double Click).<br class="">
>>><br class="">
>>> I running Pop!_OS. I installed digiKam and VLC via snap. I have tried<br class="">
>>> everything that my limited experience knows how to do, but the only way<br class="">
>>> I can get the videos to open in VLC is by right-clicking, "Open With..."<br class="">
>>> and then selecting Url Handler Script which then opens a window and from<br class="">
>>> there I have to click on VLC and then the video opens. Too many steps.<br class="">
>>><br class="">
>>> Can anyone point me to some instructions on making this work?<br class="">
>>><br class="">
>>> I apologize for any ignorance on my end. I recently moved to Linux from<br class="">
>>> a macOS environment. Trying to give up on big tech. So far digiKam has<br class="">
>>> been a great alternative to Lightroom.<br class="">
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