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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[–] 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.