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KDE Connect
Thursday, 26 March 2026 07:32 pmOh my goodness!
For ages I have been using the clunky method of transferring files between my smartphone and my Linux desktop using a flash drive. Well, tonight I became fully fed up with that and thought to ask ChaptGPT if there was a simple wireless way to do it (without bluetooth, which tends to crash my computer). It showed me several ways, but suggested KDE Connect might be the simplest.
Oh boy! ChatGPT was soooo right! KDE Connect is brilliant! Setting up the computer's firewall to exclude everything except the phone was a bit beyond me (I might have eventually worked it out), but ChatGPT quickly solved that for me too.
Now I can easily transfer files between the machines, use my desktop keyboard to type on my phone, use my desktop to read and respond to SMS messages on my phone, send a "find my phone" message to make it ring (I never lose my phone, but one day I might), and much, much more. I'm only just starting to explore its capabilities.
For ages I have been using the clunky method of transferring files between my smartphone and my Linux desktop using a flash drive. Well, tonight I became fully fed up with that and thought to ask ChaptGPT if there was a simple wireless way to do it (without bluetooth, which tends to crash my computer). It showed me several ways, but suggested KDE Connect might be the simplest.
Oh boy! ChatGPT was soooo right! KDE Connect is brilliant! Setting up the computer's firewall to exclude everything except the phone was a bit beyond me (I might have eventually worked it out), but ChatGPT quickly solved that for me too.
Now I can easily transfer files between the machines, use my desktop keyboard to type on my phone, use my desktop to read and respond to SMS messages on my phone, send a "find my phone" message to make it ring (I never lose my phone, but one day I might), and much, much more. I'm only just starting to explore its capabilities.