I love its UI, so damn good, so damn clean, so simple, I was really really hoping that it would be it, I wanted it to be it but it lacks proper browser integration, the experience is not seamless as it should

The perfect download manager for me would be IDM ease of use and and flawless browser integration + JDownloader2 FOSS nature and its advanceded features + Motrix simple and clean UI

IDM looks like Windows 98 era

Yep I agree but at least it looks like a desktop app not a phone app on a big screen, anyway it's okay I will keep using FDM while keeping an eye on XDM hopefully the new version will live up to the expectations

XDM?

Ok I just googled startpaged it and oh boy it is FOSS but the UI man it looks like a smartphone app from android 4.4 era but the devs are working on a full overhaul so I'll wait and see

There is also FileCxx.

I will look into it, seems interesting

There is nothing that will work as simple as IDM

I strongly agree but from my experience FDM seems the closest to it and FDM is not as simple as IDM, I wish if there is a native linux version.

especially with that little floating button on top of videos it detects, with all available frame resolutions.

Damn right man, it is so damn good, can't anyone else copy it please???

For video sites, I use yt-dlp. For galleries, gallery-dl.

I know of yt-dl but never heard of dlp before well until yesterday and for gallery-dl the name alone is very intriguing, I will definitely take a look at it, thanks for mentioning it!

For anime sites, I just log into Windows and use IDM.

They called me a mad man

I want something that will grap download requests automatically, I don't want to right click on any link, if I'm on particular website and I left click on the download button on that website the download manager that I have installed should automatically grap this download request

Sir what are you trying to hide

The cold hard truth :'(

• Does it auto capture download requests from the browser?
• Do I need to copy-paste the direct download link to it?
• Do I need to right click on links then select it?
• does it work flawlessly with Firefox?

yt-dlp

Hmm seems really interesting, will take a look at it when I have time

DownThemAll

Tested it unfortunately requires an extra step (right clicking on links), I'm looking for something that will auto start whenever I left click on a link instead of the browser built in download manager

Tested it but settled on FDM in the end because of its simplicity, convenience and ease of use

THIS

I settled on it in the end but I installed the deb package instead from FDM website, the flatpak just refuses to install and I'm not willing to troubleshoot the issue

Tried it today and unfortunately it didn't pass the test

Thanks! I will keep this one in mind in case things don't work well with FDM

I don't really know what you mean by not copy-pasting links but you don't gotta do that.

Here is what I mean, in testing JDownloader and other download managers I did a simple test, I open a website like let's say https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download-fdm-for-linux.htm and I left click on the download button if the download manager auto captures the download request and start downloading the file or prompt me to authorize the download then the download manager passes the test but if the browser built in download manager starts downloading instead then it is an instant failure; I put this extension to the test and unfortunately it failed.

wine probably is your best bet if you just want IDM in Linux form.

It installed successfully but unfortunately it seems that it won't work with the linux version of Firefox so I uninstalled.

Hmm I don't recall using it ever before but I will give it a shot if things don't go well with FDM

Tested it but in the end I settled on FDM

Lol, I actually know about JDownloader2 but never used it but well I'm downloading it right now so let's see

Update: close but not enough, FDM is the winner for me

the font is probably in your repos as well

Unfortunately it's not:(

Thanks! But I think I will stick with the open source drivers as LibreOffice now runs much faster! Opening and scrolling through the fonts list used to get the GPU utilization to go all the way to 80 to 100% and it was so slow it took the system to register my keyboard Inputs a few seconds but now the issue disappeared!

Scaling has always been set to 1x (100%) and I have never changed it or played with it until today!