Im28xwa

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Im28xwa, (edited )

Lol, I actually know about JDownloader2 but never used it but well I’m downloading it right now so let’s see

Update: close but not enough, FDM is the winner for me

Im28xwa,

Tested it but in the end I settled on FDM

Im28xwa,

Hmm I don’t recall using it ever before but I will give it a shot if things don’t go well with FDM

Im28xwa,

I don’t really know what you mean by not copy-pasting links but you don’t gotta do that.

Here is what I mean, in testing JDownloader and other download managers I did a simple test, I open a website like let’s say freedownloadmanager.org/download-fdm-for-linux.ht… and I left click on the download button if the download manager auto captures the download request and start downloading the file or prompt me to authorize the download then the download manager passes the test but if the browser built in download manager starts downloading instead then it is an instant failure; I put this extension to the test and unfortunately it failed.

wine probably is your best bet if you just want IDM in Linux form.

It installed successfully but unfortunately it seems that it won’t work with the linux version of Firefox so I uninstalled.

Im28xwa,

Thanks! I will keep this one in mind in case things don’t work well with FDM

Im28xwa,

Tried it today and unfortunately it didn’t pass the test

Im28xwa,

I settled on it in the end but I installed the deb package instead from FDM website, the flatpak just refuses to install and I’m not willing to troubleshoot the issue

Im28xwa,

THIS

Im28xwa,

Tested it but settled on FDM in the end because of its simplicity, convenience and ease of use

Im28xwa,

yt-dlp

Hmm seems really interesting, will take a look at it when I have time

DownThemAll

Tested it unfortunately requires an extra step (right clicking on links), I’m looking for something that will auto start whenever I left click on a link instead of the browser built in download manager

Im28xwa,
  • Does it auto capture download requests from the browser?
  • Do I need to copy-paste the direct download link to it?
  • Do I need to right click on links then select it?
  • does it work flawlessly with Firefox?
Im28xwa,

I want something that will grap download requests automatically, I don’t want to right click on any link, if I’m on particular website and I left click on the download button on that website the download manager that I have installed should automatically grap this download request

Im28xwa,

XDM?

Ok I just googled startpaged it and oh boy it is FOSS but the UI man it looks like a smartphone app from android 4.4 era but the devs are working on a full overhaul so I’ll wait and see

There is also FileCxx.

I will look into it, seems interesting

There is nothing that will work as simple as IDM

I strongly agree but from my experience FDM seems the closest to it and FDM is not as simple as IDM, I wish if there is a native linux version.

especially with that little floating button on top of videos it detects, with all available frame resolutions.

Damn right man, it is so damn good, can’t anyone else copy it please???

For video sites, I use yt-dlp. For galleries, gallery-dl.

I know of yt-dl but never heard of dlp before well until yesterday and for gallery-dl the name alone is very intriguing, I will definitely take a look at it, thanks for mentioning it!

For anime sites, I just log into Windows and use IDM.

They called me a mad man

Im28xwa,

IDM looks like Windows 98 era

Yep I agree but at least it looks like a desktop app not a phone app on a big screen, anyway it’s okay I will keep using FDM while keeping an eye on XDM hopefully the new version will live up to the expectations

Im28xwa,

Yep yep but I’m willing to use a separate app or browser extension just for this purpose

Im28xwa,

I tried it and unfortunately the browser integration is not good enough for me and for dl vs dlp well I don’t know what’s the difference between the 2 and I’m yet to use any of them

Im28xwa,

I guess it is a matter of personal preference and priorities

Im28xwa,

I will give it a shot if things don’t go well with FDM

Im28xwa,

What kind of issues exactly?

Im28xwa,

Very old Toshiba laptop with a very old Nvidia gpu GT 525M running proprietary drivers connected to a 1080p monitor and yes it is running at 1080p

Im28xwa, (edited )

Maybe because of the old Nvidia gpu, hmm will try the OS drivers hope it helps,

Update: didn’t help but it did fix an issue with the flatpak version of telegram (openGL) and wine is no longer complaining about something that’s broken with the proprietary driver + the boot and shutdown animation now actually runs (which is Linux mint logo)

Im28xwa,

I’m running linux mint xfce which after checking it seems that it uses xfwm 4.18.0 and everything is blury, there isn’t a single thing that isn’t blury well except for the windows 10 vm lol

Im28xwa,

I just tried a live Lubunto install, and it too looks blurry running the OS GPU drivers

Im28xwa,

0024:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

Im28xwa,

There is no integrated GPU so no

Im28xwa,
Im28xwa,

I tried to upload a screenshot when creating this post, but it seems there is an issue with the instance I’m on, so I just tried uploading it to Imgur instead so here you go, and oh scaling is set to 1x (there is only 1x which is the default and 2x which I tried today, but it made all the UI elements and text too big and yep I’m not using the same fonts for comparison and I don’t think it is as simple to install and use the font used by win 10 and/or 11, and honestly I do not know if using Microsoft font going to fix this issue or not

screenshot these all are the default settings except maybe for Hinting

Im28xwa,

I have always wanted to try opensuse so we will see

Im28xwa,

Thanks a lot for the info! I just went and installed segoe Ui font, and it looked even worse than Ubuntu Regular and I tried all the hinting options and made sure to restart after each change!!!

Im28xwa,

Scaling has always been set to 1x (100%) and I have never changed it or played with it until today!

Im28xwa,

Thanks! But I think I will stick with the open source drivers as LibreOffice now runs much faster! Opening and scrolling through the fonts list used to get the GPU utilization to go all the way to 80 to 100% and it was so slow it took the system to register my keyboard Inputs a few seconds but now the issue disappeared!

Im28xwa,

the font is probably in your repos as well

Unfortunately it’s not:(

Im28xwa,

The cold hard truth :'(

Im28xwa,

It’s okay this is life after all.

Im28xwa,

Thanks for the valuable information! I’m still not sure if I’m gonna get a laptop or build a desktop as an upgrade for the future but one thing is sure is that 1440p is the absolute minimum for me, no way in hell I’m getting anything lower than that

Im28xwa,

Idk but I forgot to mention that now the laptop actually wakes up from sleep after I switched to the OS drivers, those proprietary drivers are really bad, god I shouldn’t have switched to them at all.

Im28xwa,

TBH I’m just following distrochooser.de #1 recommendation, I want something that works best for me, not willing to spend any more time in testing new things that might be good, if it is good then I will let the community try them 1st, I will be the last to jump in

Im28xwa,

Lol blame linux mint, or is it imgur?

Im28xwa,

I have decided to switch to OpenSUSE which uses KDE by default so let’s see and if this old laptop can’t handle it then will switch to Lbuntu as LXQt is its main and only variant available unlike mint

Im28xwa,

Apparently nothing just get a 10 year old laptop and use Linux mint on it🤷‍♂️

Gaming laptop or handheld PC?

I recently posted about finding time to game as a parent and the community has provided a bunch of good suggestions. Thank you! After reading all comments, I think it really boils down to accessibility of gaming for the occasional moments of free time that I do have in my busy schedule. The ability to pick something up easily,...

Im28xwa,

I should preface this by saying I didn’t try any of the handheld gaming PCs, I watched a review of the AyaNeo 2S, it uses the same APU as the Ally and still outperform it, especially at low wattages and if I remember correctly even the steam deck at the same power level maybe you wanna check that out!

I would choose a gaming laptop over a handheld just for the versatility and upgradability, I have my eyes on the framework 16 it is very intriguing, to say the least

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