Cachy’s new package manager, Shelly, which is awesome, BTW (writing about arch or derivatives without using BTW is against the law, remember.) does checks on AUR packages when installing or updating. Zoey rocks!
I do some work for an org that is MS office centric. They provide me with an office license, and space in one drive. I essentially use office to check final output to share with them, but do the actual work in LO. The only thing that goes in onedrive is their stuff.
I’ve found a listing for a bunsh of these for 57€. Looking into them, I saw that there is a non mini, sff, that is waaaaay better for a homelab. Still small, but impressively expandable, 4 dimm slots, 4 pcie slots (low profile i7 ), one of them x16, internal space for 2 3.5 drives plus an ODD tray, where you can mount a 2.5 hdd or ssd, a bajillion usb…
I use some Flatpaks. Flatpaks sometimes create problems with paths and permissions and stuff. They are generally useful, as are appimages when created by the author(s), but are not a panacea. Also, there are flatpaks not created by the official source.
Reading the reply above I realized half my post is redundant :)