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

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

Lol blame linux mint, or is it imgur?

TBH I’m just following https://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

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.

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

What kind of issues exactly?

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

I guess it is a matter of personal preference and priorities

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

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

It’s okay this is life after all.

I love its UI, so damn good, so damn clean, so simple, I was really really hoping that it would be it, I wanted it to be it but it lacks proper browser integration, the experience is not seamless as it should

The perfect download manager for me would be IDM ease of use and and flawless browser integration + JDownloader2 FOSS nature and its advanceded features + Motrix simple and clean UI

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

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

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

Sir what are you trying to hide

The cold hard truth :'(

• 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?

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