I’ve been dreading booting back into Windows recently because I upgraded my motherboard/CPU and know they are going to make me buy another license.

Windows tends to be better at this these days. If this does happen though, go through the activation process and start the troubleshooter. There’s an option there to transfer the licence from another machine. You should be able to transfer it from the same machine if Windows thinks it’s a new one.

This assumes that it’s the same version of Windows, but in your case it shouldn’t be changing 👍

I’ve genuinely seen a post asking for help because DISM wouldn’t run, where the recommended answer was to run DISM 🙈

Just to note, this doesn’t apply to the UK. Our trains are generally useless and expensive.

They’re supposed to be better at preventing RSI

Ah, I know the one. I’ve used it for Google Drive in the past. I didn’t know it could do Onedrive too though.

That makes sense, thanks :)

Thanks :)

I take it that’s a third party client that syncs with MS Onedrive?

A developer, Abraunegg, has made a Linux tool that syncs a Microsoft Onedrive account with a Linux system, in the same way that the Microsoft Onedrive tool does on Windows. They’ve named their tool Onedrive too.

I didn’t know if you were talking about Microsoft Onedrive compatibility in Gnome, or Abraunegg’s Onedrive. It gets a bit confusing when they both have the same name.

the most recent version of GNOME has OneDrive support

Just to check, do you mean the Microsoft version of Onedrive, or the abraunegg Linux version?

Abraunegg’s version is brilliant, but the MS version would make my life easier :)

You might want to delete this, then reupload it after you’ve cropped your name out 👍

That’s good to know, thanks :)

Didn’t they get taken down recently?

It’s more likely that the streaming setup is having the same problem as you - it can’t find a stream. It checks a load of torrents at once, but if there’s no torrent for what you’re looking for, it’s not going to find them either.

I might be wrong, but I remember reading that they removed the objectionable content after the fuss that was kicked up.

Thanks for replying :)

I’m trying to learn how to use Docker at the moment, but not getting very far. I may be able to use it for this in the future, but for now I need to stick with what I know :)

I’ll give it a look, thanks :)

I hadn’t considered it, I thought it was just for SBCs.

I’ll give it a try in a VM, thanks :)

At the moment, Docker is frying my brain >.<

I’m trying it out with a handful of programs, and I’m struggling so far. Too many of the guides assume that you already have a certain level of Docker knowledge, and can be very confusing. It’s something that I’m going to have to look at in the future :)

Thanks for the detailed reply :)

I’ve tried setting up a separate profile on my laptop for the main site that I manage, but I’m finding the permissions to be difficult. I need to transfer files from my existing profile to the new website profile, but I keep getting all sorts of errors telling me that I’m not allowed, even if I put the users in the same group and give the group read and write access, or if I try changing ownership to the website user.

I’ve probably set up something wrong with the new user, but it made me think about other ways of doing it, and how to back it up. I’m probably going with a VM so that as well as a regular backup, I can back up the whole VM and store a copy on other physical computers. If something goes wrong, like my laptop getting stolen, I can just fire up the VM on another computer and keep working.

@mojo_raisin@lemmy.world had a good idea though, of using different themes and the logo to help differentiate them. I think I’ll use that whichever way I go.

XFCE is a good idea, thanks. I use Xubuntu on my media server at the moment, so I’m used to the way that it works. I like the look of KVM too. Apparently it’s faster than VirtualBox, and that’s usually fine for my needs, so it should be good :)

Having different Firefox and Thunderbird profiles under the same login is something that I’m definitely avoiding. I’ve tried things like that in the past, and have trouble keeping them separated. I have some memory issues, probably related to ADHD, and find it too easy to open the wrong copy of a program when I’m focused on something else.

Ironically, JWM is the reason I don’t use distros like Puupy os DSL. For some reason, I just can’t get on with it. I don’t know if it’s muscle memory or something, but I just can’t get to grips with it.

Saying that though, it’s always worth another shot. As you suggest, I should only need the two programs, and maybe something lime FileZilla, so starting them at boot should help too :)