Symfonium is great. I use that over Tempo for physical phone because of Android Auto support.

Desktop and laptop wise I can’t find another player that I quite like.

I tried to like Strawberry. I really did. Its not awful but its not great…

The UI leaves a lot to be desired. It wasn’t great at scraping metadata.

Ultimately it feels clunky and dated.

Ultimately I settled in Navidrome with Feishin.

/s right?

Lawnchair Yagni

There are two launchers I am currently using, one more testing.

The tried and true Lawnchair, and Yagni Launcher.

I always used CUE splitting software to separate tracks.

Spotify is trash

Counter points:

• Removable battery was for longevity, not carrying spares.

• I used external storage in the form of MicroSD for music. Lossless audio, and lots of it. I used it for backups of apps, videos, and ROMs. 128GB is not enough. I don’t use cloud storage.

• Having the option for wired was nice, and I did use it. Until it was taken away from me. For my car and headphones.

I went and jumped off the deep end and went straight to Arch with my main rig. However without reading and tinkering you won’t exactly have a fun time. But if you’re comfortable enough with command line, then you can get it working how you want. It does work quite well now that I have it setup. Even with Zen kernel and NVIDIA open dkms.

I am glad to have jumped on when I did. A few years have passed, and almost everything I hadba gripe over is fixed.

I’ve wanted to give NixOS a shot, but I have very little reason to switch away from Arch. I have my install tailored to be exactly what I want. No fuss in maintaining it either.

Where’s the /s

Arch has been the least limiting experience I have had with Linux thus far.

You wanna delete system files, do it, I dare you. Oh, it broke your system? Okay, not a problem. I haven’t encountered a situation it wasn’t recoverable. You wanna test bleeding edge custom kernels with drivers that are the newest available? Done.

If you’re afraid of reading, troubleshooting, and trying new things to test your mettle? Yeah, go with something else.

There is very little I haven’t been able to do with my Arch setups. I ditched Windows, and can’t go back.

Just be aware of what you are installing. And do your best to audit your system regularly. Switching to a bleeding edge distro, and using thebAUr absolutely comes with risks. But it is up to the user to be aware of what they are installing. This goes for any OS. Be aware of what you are installing.

This can happen on any OS you install software willy nilly with no thought behind it.

It has a page listing those tools too, Alacritty, and more.

An observation, but a popular terminal emulator app I use isn’t listed: Yakuake