howdy VS konsave

you can even use facial recognition with IR webcam

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I just bought a go 2 (not laptop go) this weekend and installed fedora 37 on it. Almost everything worked without the surface kernel except the camera requires v4l2loopback kernel drivers to create a gstreamer device for apps that don’t support libcamera. There were only old versions available in copr but no surface kernel headers available so I couldn’t build the kernel modules. I switched to ubuntu 22.10 and got similar hardware support but more available packages. I’m still trying to figure out how to get the IR sensors to work so I can use howdy for login/sudo. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

First, you'll need to install Howdy.

I've tried using Howdy, but that doesn't seem to work. It's probably because of this issue

Just like with digicams, it is not just about the sensor, but also the image processing itself. Should we omit the IR sensor to replace it with a better firmware-based noise-reduction system? But what about "Howdy" / "Hello" users, if we go this route?

so I picked EOS, with KDE Plasma because I found something called Konsave and they said KDE Plasma is the most customized DE, so I'm sold.

It is smooth sailing until now, I suggest this to save and replicate your config.

I'm using Konsave to backup my Plasma config.

It's a bit of a mess - I'm kind of hoping that Plasma 6 will bring back some structure into this, but I'm not getting my hopes too high. In the meantime there are a few tools to make this easier, such as konsave (it comes preconfigured for Plasma).

You can copy files manually or use something like konsave

There is konsave which was recommended by one of KDE developers on video, though I did not test it.

I use konsave to backup my KDE settings so I don't need to recreate my panes and widgets when they're lost (what happens 3 or 4 times per week). But after restoring a backup I need to log out. Is there a way to force a reload of Plasma without having all my apps closed? Can I maybe kill and restart some specific process?

I have tried loading it into the iso using Konsave(https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave), But it didn't work. :(

I haven't found any system (Linux distro, Mac, or Windows) that seems to really reliably do major version OS updates. I think I'm migrating to the viewpoint that it's better to just concentrate on having scripts/exported configs etc. that allow me to set up a new machine super quickly. Learned you can save your KDE desktop, in that vein - https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave.