Is it the new thing? As it sounds very absurd to me. The only point of having a separate profile to me is to have a separate sync account, set of bookmarks, and extensions. If it’s all united, what’s the point in having them at all then?

What’s the difference? I surely missed the whole thing, I only remember some announcement about the new profiles being simpler and all that. What really changed? And what are you missing with the new implementation?

Yes, I second that! I use desktop Linux on and off for like 20 years, with more like on 10 years now, and to my shame, it was about a month or two ago (well, half a year maybe, time flies!) I learned about desktop files. They are so good, I use them for everything now (via application launcher, I use fuzzel). I automated quite a lot with a combination of a simple bash script plus a desktop file to run it. Wish I learned that years ago!

But you can sync your container tabs, it’s in the settings!

Is this profiles method same / similar to containers or wildly different?

Before migrating to Firefox, I used Chrome. Since I had multiple Gmail accounts for no real reason (from old times), I decided why not using different Chrome profiles for different types of tasks.

In Firefox, I don’t remember having something similar. That was like 5+ years ago, I believe profiles were there, but perhaps less easy to use. So I ended up using containers, and you know, I quite like them! I use them everywhere, all the time. I have a nice extension called Firefox Multi-Account Containers and some other extension (I need to lookup it from my desktop) that allows opening the container via a CLI parameter. I created a bunch of .desktop files that open a C particular link with a particular container. I use it very heavily, all the time. To the point I don’t really notice I manage various identities for various websites. I tested with ChatGPT, I use various login with Google accounts, for various purposes.

So far (over a year or so) I wasn’t banned, even despite often I have multiple accounts opened in sibling tabs. E.g. one generates images, another translates texts, another one helps with some code, and the 4th one helps with some Linux administration.

I wonder the use case for profiles. That’s definitely a very nice feature, and it’s very useful. I guess that’s more for separation. For when I don’t want the other profile distracting me. I’d love to learn how others find them profiles useful.

I guess that depends on a server, but all my non-Arm servers are on Arch, and it’s been rock solid so far. (Years, close to a decade.) What I like is that I don’t need to upgrade it (meaning across versions), I just update it here and there, non-regularly. Never had a single issue. Perhaps I’m lucky and asking for trouble. One machine runs root on an encrypted RAID-0, so I’d test my backup strategy. Another one runs root on RAID-1. Another one runs root on USB drive.

But what would Proxmox do?

It’s the virtualisation, right? Won’t it consume extra resources? Or won’t it be unimportant, since it’s very little? (Never worked with VMs seriously, only casually ran some things here and there.)

I’m not the original poster, but I’m curious too. I think I’d pick some Fedora / Arch for the task, depending whether someone else would use it too.

Templates are auto-used by some software, but I don’t understand why it’s not hidden. E.g. .templates or some .app/share/templates. As not many people would ever use it, and those who will would find the location easily.

Desktop, I never used it, but I understand the workflow. I used it as a quick directory to send some files, which I could symlink. Some people use it. And some DEs show desktop files.

Music and videos, I see no point. Not many people use them at all, and for me those were separate disks (which I never needed mounted in my home). Now, it’s all separate machines (for self-hosted media content and servers).

I use only documents and downloads, and in general, that’s enough for me. Also I use some top level directories, and I name them myself. All my files are my projects, I see no point in having any other files in my home.

I have a .hidden file to hide the rest.

Also, it doesn’t try to be friendly. There are cases when it’s fucking broken in so many ways, I just hate the devs sometimes. Perhaps, that’s the reason I prefer the tools to be as minimal as possible. I use Arch with Sway wm and most of my apps are TUI or very minimal. I tried KDE, it’s great, but there are some idiosyncrasies in the very Fedora Kinoite. That’s their flagship distro, and some things are straight broken with the Discover app. I won’t provide a proper bug report here right now (it’s unnecessary anyway), but I remember me thinking ‘the fuck? Didn’t you test the app with the atomic distro you advertise? How would a normie who knows nothing of Linux would even understand how to make it work?’

For some weird reason, there are countless of things like that. I tolerate them mostly, but a normie would easily panic upon facing a thing like that. I was like that myself once. That’s why I’d prefer these interfaces to become better. They’re mostly bad in many cases. Maybe the reason is some lonely developer in Nebraska, who made some tiny tool for fun, and a corporation has no resources of making it better, right?

Aha, it’s in the article:

Don't like the new Projects directory? Just delete it. The xdg-user-dirs utility will not try to create it again. The default location for this directory will be moved to your home directory.

It recreates them for me.

Power users, who want more control, can edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs configuration file and modify it to control what goes where.

This might help, I guess.

My man!

Thanks, I do agree, I should have not told them that. And if I’d invest more time into theming, the attempt could be more successful.

Also, I partially replied to you both in this sibling comment of mine. But I’d partially repeat: I am able and willing to invest inadequate time into helping them adapt, but they react as ‘thanks, we’ll try it on our own and ask questions’ but the questions never followed. The only request was to return to their previous system.

I did it as I did it, only because I did it before the Christmas, but decided that there are holidays coming, and I’d swap the disks right after the holidays. And I did it after the Easter, which was a few weeks ago. If I’m to explore theming and KDE in more depths, it’s quite realistic I’d update their system by the next Christmas, if not later.

At the moment, I think of trying Windows 11 IoT LTSC with them, and see how it goes. And then attempt to swap it for something like Zorin or highly modified KDE. To my brief search, it looks like it’s just easier to find more modern themes than something old, like Windows 10 or 7. I found a nice clone of Windows 7, by the way, but it was unrealistic, they look a bit younger than the people who’d heavily use Windows 7 (as I did, before moving to ~~macOS~~ Mac OS X and Linux). I believe most folks don’t remember Windows 7, so if you theming, you’d rather theme for something more modern.