Basically, I'd like to be able to get SMS messages from my android phone sent to my Linux laptop, primarily for getting 2FA codes, since that's the way pretty much every business-type site out there insists on doing it.

Anything KDE-related, it seems to me, makes you download a lot of other software that you don't really need, and so I'd like to go another route if possible (not dissing KDE, it's just not for me!).

KDE-Connect's AlternativeTo page lists a lot of alternatives that aren't really alternatives, and many seem to have been discontinued. One of them, Sefirah, has a lot of .dll files that come with it, which I believe are only for Microsoft, and so that doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence. Anyway, thanks in advance for any suggestions.

(also, not using GNOME desktop or ZorinOS, so those options unfortunately won't work).

THE VERDICT: KDE Connect is very clunky, but passable . . . I guess. I dimly remember trying this many years ago, and it doesn't seem to have improved much, if at all. Kind of seems like the devs haven't really given it much love as of late, which is too bad. Ok for now, but I'll be looking for a replacement.

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[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The megabytes of dependencies it will bring in aren’t that big of a deal nowadays, considering we have terabyte-scale hard drives now.

True, true. However:

The following NEW packages will be installed: kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kdeconnect kded5 keditbookmarks kio kirigami-addons-data kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5 kpeople-vcard kwayland-data libdbusmenu-qt5-2 libfakekey0 libhfstospell11 libkf5activities5 libkf5archive-data libkf5archive5 libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5contacts-data libkf5contacts5 libkf5declarative-data libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18nlocaledata5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5 libkf5kcmutilscore5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5kirigami2-5 libkf5modemmanagerqt6 libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5package-data libkf5package5 libkf5parts-data libkf5parts-plugins libkf5parts5 libkf5people-data libkf5people5 libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5plasma5 libkf5plasmaquick5 libkf5pulseaudioqt3 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5 libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libqca-qt5-2 libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqt5multimediaquick5 libqt5quickparticles5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5texttospeech5 libqt5waylandclient5 libvoikko1 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-record0 plasma-framework qml-module-org-kde-kconfig qml-module-org-kde-kirigami-addons-labs-mobileform qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons qml-module-org-kde-people qml-module-qtmultimedia qml-module-qtquick-particles2 qtspeech5-speechd-plugin sonnet-plugins sshfs 0 upgraded, 109 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 19.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 87.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.

But, I would say you are correct, 87.9 MB isn't really all that much space in the greater scheme of things. Hopefully the version they have in the repos won't be too out of date. Maybe I will give it a try after all . . .

[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

ZAMN

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some packages recommend other packages that are not really dependencies. Do you use apt? I think it has a --without-recommends flag or something similar.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I do indeed use apt. I think that all of those are bona fide dependencies! I believe there was also a "recommended" part which listed a few other things that I didn't install. sudo apt autoremove should remove unneeded stuff, I believe, but doing it just now, it didn't find anything.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 4 days ago

Only 87MB of disk space, but GB of RAM to run þe services.

I have an 8GB XPS13. Runs beautifully wiþ Herbstluftwm. Under KDE, if you open Firefox þe OOM Killer starts shutting down applications.

Bloat does matter.