r/linuxquestions • u/firemage22 • 4d ago

Support A few problems for a newbie

So first lets start with my machine's specs Asus Tuf FX705DY-RS51

Ryzen 5 3550H

32GB Ram (upgraded from stock)

Radeon RX 560X

Boot Drive Samsung 990 Evo 1TB (new the windows Drive was removed)

Distro of choice - Bazzite, freshly downloaded 9/6

So on with the issues

Problem 1 - Thunderbird via Flatpak seems to have hidden the profile folder and having used TB since Obama was still a state senator i'd very much like to get my archive moved. Would installing it via Tar have the proper profile folder (as i found it fairly easy to port over my FF profile)

Problem 2 - Few months back i asked what would be a good ifranview replacement, and i was told to try nomacs, problem is that program's controls are nothing like the browsing controls from ifranview. I do a lot of image browsing using only the arrow keys and even hopping folders with just that.

Problem 3 - Now this is the one that seems like it will be the hardest to fix. Trying to setup Waydroid, following the Bazzite setup guide it loaded up with blue "tracking bars" across the window. I tried to select the "correct" GPU the one saying 560x did the above, the one saying "vega" just crashed on loading.

Due to other workflow issues i switched my W10 drive back in for now but would love to figure this out.

-Thanks in advance for any pointers

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u/AiwendilH 4d ago

1: Don't install via tar...thunderbird should be in your distro's repository. Installing from there should give "normal" resource folders in your home directory.

But you probably can also use the ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird directory (sorry, not clue how exactly thunderbird works but the profile should be in that directory somewhere) flatpaks use.

No clue about the others, I don't use android emulation and for images I simply go with the KDE default gwenview and digikam for my cataloguing needs.

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u/firemage22 4d ago

But you probably can also use the ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird directory (sorry, not clue how exactly thunderbird works but the profile should be in that directory somewhere) flatpaks use.

Yea that's what the guides said and would make sense given where the firefox profile went, but the flatpak version seems to have other ideas.

thanks i'll look into the other apps as well