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Discussion

• Gnome and Pop!_OS. Top Icons Plus is a necessity, yet the developer quit (see the Warning). Gnome Online Accounts for seemless cloud integration. Gnome Tweaks enable customization. Gnome can be conceptually compared to macOS

• The Focusrite Scarlett Solo audio interface doesn't play nice with Linux, so Conor has to use Windows 10 to record on. Skip signing into MS Account. A lot of junk litters the start menu by default, remove it. ShutUp10 is useful tame the OS. Windows design team

• We need consumer grade recording apps - Audacity is great but to complex for some of us.

• Fedora 30 is to get a Deepin desktop option.

• Deepin 15.9 released with touchscreen support. There are other touch-friendly options: Gnome, Plasma Mobile.

• ChromeOS to add Apt search to its launcher

• DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for its local search. OpenStreetMap might be a better fit, but how is non-tracking search engine going to make money? iCloud hack.

• Purism are going to create a convergent store for mobile and PC apps. F-Droid is a freedom respecting store on Android. Anbox let's users run Android apps on other platforms. Elementary OS AppCenter attempts to help Linux app devs monetize their creations. Federated app store would be a win.

Feedback

• Qwant from Markus, via email. There is a JavaScript-free version, just like DuckDuckGo Lite

Boners:

• Conor:
  • Simple Note - still not known if the back-end is open source
  • boner of the year 2018 - Steam Play/Proton