Steps:
-) browse around thingiverse, looking for <something>
-) find <thingy>, decide that's something one wants look at later
-) since I hate bookmarks 'cos let's drag the URL from Browser into a folder on my machine
this is what got created from aforementioned drag-n-drop via GUI:
.. here's the same file from CLI:
The question is: how does one get the URL via GUI without firing up a browser?
1st attempt, somewhat naively right-clicking the icon -> Properties yields this:
..mmm... helpful not so much
2nd attempt since one knows that this has to be a text-file (.lnk I'm farting in your general direction) let's fire up an editor via right-click -> open with.. -> editor
(... 5 seconds lag strange..)
and one might see this:
In which trouser-leg of the multiverse is this (e.g. actually firing a https-GET and fetching the output) the expected behavior?
/I do not event dare to think about what happens if <URL> points to a site which requires authentication)
//even less about what happens your machine has no network right now or <site> is down
It really pains me to say this but Win10 with all its warts might actually be the lesser evil compared to Mint 19 (*) since I'm usually wasting more time to figure out howTF get <foo> up and running to do Y instead of simply getting it Y done.
(*) all user-targeted-distros (GUI /DEs?) are shite somewhere; servers are another pair of shoes and I'll happily continue to maintain them
//my first one was redhat ~5 (?), the one where you could run it with 'Klingon' as language
What I really do not get is how even my simple (?) requirements cause quite some :
MUST, no exceptions:
-) Workflow for my MK3S
-> works fine so far, all my needs are satisfied with either some web-app or run via WINE
MUST if I have to burn some midnight-oil (a.k.a. work / maintenance-window at night and so on) from home, happens occasionally
-) Citrix-Receiver (Umlauts; please pass through Windows-Hotkeys into RDP both when windowed AND fullscreen; etc)
-) RDP-Client (currently remmina via snap; was some hassle but works now)
-) good screenshot-tool (nothing fancy, just <shoot>, highlight something and anonymize anotherthing -> done)
-) stable copy-n-paste from here to there (text / image), no re linebreaks and so on
Are even these quite moderate (imo) requirements too much to expect?
Please redirect the "for work you should use a dedicated machine / dualboot"-comments to /dev/null, dedicated won't fly due space-constraints and dualboot is just awful.
Re the "use a VM"-comments allow me to point you to "stable copy-n-paste" from above, I know that it usually works ... until it refuses and by all means we aren't talking about c-n-p of a metrick fuckton of bytes, just the odd screenshot and/or a logfile-snippet; this always happens when it absolutely must not happen
Rant done, I feel better now