I like caja on mate.
It is jaring having to use the default unubtu one after
I can understand why people might like the KDE one, or midnight commander/whatever
But for me, caja is where it is at
Yes, I agree fully.
Not intended to advertise KDE 
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Is that the one with automounting NFS?
Where you just browse the folder, and auto mount just connects, and mounts the remote system without you doing anything?
Was impressive to see
This is the one I remember, uses autofs
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lol, the fact that auto-mounting NFS is being discussed shows how far linux is behind in this.
For an OS thatās used to actually RUN cloud services, connecting to them is pretty abysmal 
edit:
NFS is fast tho, i have an NFS mount to the NAS as well, but that doesnāt sync everywhere, does it 
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Agreed, I still want to know though, why the heck are we using NFS in 2025, I thought that buggy, unsecure protocol shouldāve been deprecated by now yet here we are 
Itās like people are still recommending Telnet and FTP over SSH. Utter madness.
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NFSv4 was supposed to be better secured (IIRC?). I use it to send backups from xcp-ng to remote site (via ipsec).
The old NFS - I use it to serve / images to a bunch of read-only diskless terminals.
Probably could move this to v4, but no real reason, since its all internal net, and separate vlan.
Is Linux buggy and a total fail using smb/samba/whatever?
I am sure I used it from linux when I had windows machines
I donāt think so, but you might encounter problems with ACLs (especially setting them).
This depends on how one accesses the share (mount.cifs vs whatever KDE is doing).
EDIT: TrueNAS recently pushed a bunch ZFS commits to better align ZFS with NFSv4 / Windows ACLs / ACEs, so probably the best choice right now. Earlier, it was way easier to host Samba from Freebsd ZFS, rather than linux, due to ACLs needing translation and related incompatibilities / weirdness.
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Iāve used systemd-automount. On a daily basis I wake a laptop from sleep (if it didnāt crash. yeah going there) and expect to have hard locked terminals for 2 minutes (even with a 15 second timeouts). I may still have to xterm (because konsole totally locked) and run an unlink script. The best idea would be to trigger to run that on sleep itself. last I looked, I couldnāt tell if autofs was deprecated (in eyes of RH, probably). Itās worth comparing because even if I can live with it, itās terrible to anyone watching.
Iām aware that even in commercial linux, desktop is an afterthought (wonder how cosmic does at this). I still donāt understand why itād be so bad. I always assume I was (by insisting on fstab-ing it rather than accepting having the desktop manage it under some random path in /media or elsewhere ) just using a concept modern linux regarded as outdated, much like my preciouss ssh -X. But it seems not quite.
Iād think sshfs would be the best protocol, only truenas doesnāt want to do that.
CIFS is fine but I donāt want its weird over the top layer of ACLs involved, at all when I only deal with unix files.
NFS works, native and fast. but I also practically regard it like using telnet.
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Hmmmā¦ Why donāt you simply tie an unmount script to the systemd-sleep(8) ā Arch manual pages target and call it a day?
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It is quite right to point out that the mechanism exists, Iāve used it before to e.g. weedwhack fingerprint sensors to deal with their barely over the line stability. It does feel like some of the the 3 timeout options on the fstab line should kinda be the ones doing this lifting. Generally I never got to thinking about this, as while irritating it didnāt quite cross the threshold.
autofs
looking good actually so far.
now please hold the line iāve got to receive that fax.
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Donāt know if this belongs here since I made my own thread but Iām mildly desperate to see if anyone has any idea why my monitor wonāt work in Linux but works fine in Windows.
Is there any way to split the HDMI 1 and HDMI 3 into separate audio devices? I want to be able to play sounds from different applications out of each.
Fedora 42 KDE, RX 6800
Have you double checked graphics drivers in Linux?
I used this on windows to easily switch/fix sound output devices. Switching between speakers and headphones for things like VC, switching to using a TV, or just standard speakers at the desk.
It is windows only. Is there something for linux that does the same thing?
I am disappoint
omarchy just refuses to partition/install on my gigabyte B550 S2H based platform.
no i havenāt checked the discord, i donāt generally ādoā discord but might later. just a bit annoyed and had to rant
What does refuses to partition/install mean? And itās unlikely to be a motherboard issue.
Maybe you have secure boot enabled in your BIOS?
Refuse to install means that i select the SSD to install to and the installer craps out with something about paritioning. The machine has an NVME and SATA SSD in it, craps out on both, it is currently running Fedora.
edit:
wasnāt really looking for diagnostics, more just to vent at the moment, as of course it proceeded far enough to wipe the existing installation of fedora out.
Hehe, no worries.
Come back later with some more info if you want some input on how to solve it 
Iām using AMD and IIRC the drivers are baked into the kernel so itās not super easy to play around with different versions.
If you know a distro that lets you swap kernel versions easily, then I could do some testing on that front.