How to set Internal HDD as Storage Drives

dalto jrsilvey I was wrong about why I thought the way I did but in the end I still believe that it is best practice to keep GTK and QT as seperate as possible.

One piece of advice I would give you is don't confuse kde/gnome applications with qt/kde applications. Certainly some kde/gnome applications can bring in a huge group of other dependencies but it is not always the case. For example, gnome-disks brings in very little from gnome. The same is true in reverse of an application like krita which brings in very little from kde. It just depends on the application.

I think my brain must have just assumed gnome-disks would bring in a ton of dependencies. Knowing it doesn't will really help me!

jrsilvey WIth flatpaks this is simple.. If you run KDE, install Gnome applications through Flatpak. If you run Gnome/Budgie, install KDE through flatpaks. That prevents pulling dependencies.

Just be aware, you aren't avoiding dependencies this way, the dependencies are just being installed via flatpak. This actually creates more duplication and usage, not less.

The duplication doesn't bother me. I don't mind having additional storage taken up. What I gain by being able to easily remove the dependencies far outweighs what I lose to the space. For instance if anyone installed KMail (which I do not suggest installing after I used it) through Flatpak could easily remove it and all dependencies without them ever mixing with your system files.

After you remove KMail you could then run flatpak remove --unused which would remove any DE versions that were no longer connected to a a Flatpak App.

In my opinion it is way easier to do that than to do line by line trying to figure out how to remove dependencies.

Having said all of this.. which Desktop Environment do you use @dalto?

jrsilvey Having said all of this.. which Desktop Environment do you use @dalto?

plasma

dalto

Ok.. so the majority of my issues with KDE have been solved I think. Your help has been really, really, really appreciated. I have one more question.. if you could help me solve this you would really make my freaking year.

My partner uses Plasma. He wants to be able to stream his media to his TV. I have tried everything and I can't get media sharing to work using any programs.

I took a USB of Solus Budgie and from the LiveUSB showed him how you could stream media content without any special tweaks immediately, no additional software necessary.

Solus Budgie uses Rygel to create a DLNA server that broadcasts your videos and music. It just works.

I have tried everything on KDE. Rygel won't work. I figure it's a missing dependency. If there another way? I tried Plex but it's far more complicated. From Budgie when I share multimedia it literally just all shows up on my smart TVs that see DLNA.

Is there a program that will make KDE broadcast multimedia over DLNA that works? I've literally tried everything I could think of including a number of different programs (that I can't remember off the top of my head). If you can fix this problem then you have (almost) made me not hate KDE.

jrsilvey Is there a program that will make KDE broadcast multimedia over DLNA that works?

kodi? It is widely available and well-supported.

There are actually lots of dlna servers that work on Linux and it shouldn't really matter which DE you are using.

If kodi doesn't work for you, I can take a look at rygel and try to figure out why it isn't working for you. I have never used it but I would be willing to give it a look.

[deleted] no, you should be able to partition and format fine using Gparted, disks, or KPartition Manager.

If you need help setting up the automount through fstab, I can try and point you to some articles that helped me, just let me know.

dalto

Thank you. Tracker-miner is the file index daemon for Gnome/Budgie. KDE has it's own called baloo. I think this is something I mentioned today in an earlier post.. starting tracker-miner will mean it is running alongside baloo, doubling processing requirements for the same thing.

Thank you so much. You've literally helped me understand issues I've been fighting with for almost a year that have caused so many issues between my partner and I. It doesn't fix the problem but I understand now .

@[deleted] I am sorry I hijacked your post and I really hope your install goes smoothly. Please let us know how everything and if you need anything ask!

jrsilvey Tracker-miner is the file index daemon for Gnome/Budgie. KDE has it's own called baloo. I think this is something I mentioned today in an earlier post.. starting tracker-miner will mean it is running alongside baloo, doubling processing requirements for the same thing.

That is why I listed the alternative solution of disabling Tracker3 in the rygel config.

That being said, I still think it is easier to just use something that isn't dependent on that like kodi.