For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).
Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
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Same, niri. Want to move away from hyprland for so long. Also Emacs but I don’t want to spend months configuring.
Also a foss android distro, but I can’t find one for this phone.
there are also lots of other things like common lisp, Redox OS, cosmic desktop, trying to make my own compositor, rope science, activity pub, webtransport, bevy, ecs, and much more.
Edit: Hey, I finally installed niri and everything works!!!
i3w - I want to try it, but thinking, that if I’ll use other programs requiring mouse it will all be for nothing
That’s not true at all. I used to have pain in my wrist and went very heavily into keyboard centric usage. At the time I used AwesomeWM and Conkeror for a full keyboard centric OS, I also learned to touch type in Colemak at this time and bought a trackball. Eventually I started using PyCharm instead of Emacs, and Conkeror was abandoned so I switched back to Firefox, I switched to i3 for their better philosophy on monitors and workspaces, and switched back to a mouse for better aiming on games, and now I have lots of stuff that use mouse, but the pain never came back. And the reason is that while it is true that I still use the mouse, it’s much less than I did before, the vast majority of the time I can be programming, run something in a terminal, go to the browser and do a quick search, send a message to someone on slack and go back to my code without touching the mouse. Sure, if the result of what I was looking for is not on the front page I’ll need the mouse to click a link, and if the person on slack is not the one I was last talking I’ll need the mouse to click his name, but those are two possible mouse movements for a full workflow of stuff that would have needed 6 or more mouse movements before.
what if I’m using dvorak, did you change your configuration for your layout?
I had to write my shortcuts for i3, so I didn’t changed them, I just wrote what made sense, e.g. super+f for full-screen. Most of them are the “default” ones that the example configuration uses, but that’s because they’re sane defaults.
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Estroge- oh, I’m in the Linux community whoops
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Estrogen, is in fact, GNU/Estrogen, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Estrogen. Estrogen is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Estrogen, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Estrogen, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Estrogen is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Estrogen is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Estrogen added, or GNU/Estrogen. All the so-called Estrogen distributions are really distributions of GNU/Estrogen!
Is your gender POSIX-compliant?
“I use Estrogen as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Estrogen is just the kernel. You use GNU+Estrogen!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Estrogen, but it’s not GNU+Estrogen.
The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If Testosterone was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long.”
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.
Whenever I see this spin, I just want to say: “No it wasn’t. It was compiled with Clang.”
No, no - legit! Do go on.
I have my Estrogen tablets sitting on a shelf waiting for me to finish with fertility preservation
Common Lisp. It would take a long while before I’m comfortable working on a project using that language. There’s also Lem editor but setting it up is a pain on NixOS.
That’s my first time hearing of Lem—it looks fantastic. What’s the issue with it on NixOS?
- There is no lem package on NixOS.
- Common lisp related packages tend to be outdated
- NixOS violates FHS to allow each packages to build against specific versions of dependencies, so CL tools might not work as expected.
I want to use COSMIC but its design sucks, I prefer KDE (and on the Rust side: slint).
I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.
I want to use Haruna or many other KDE apps, but GNOME/GTK apps are often better and I dont care.
I want to use Gapless as it is the only music player on Linux that seems to not suck? But it lacks many features.
Its design sucks
Agreed. But I’m SO tired of trying to find and configure a good tiling WM that has rounded corners and isn’t impossible to install or created by assholes (it also helps that nice QoL features like easy kb layout switching are included ootb).
Qtile, when scenefx support happens (which will happen when scenefx releases v1.0 aka anytime between this year and the next decade by the looks of things), will be perfect for me but until then, I’m torn between Qtile, Hyprland and COSMIC.
As far as rounded corners and easy to use, I’ve had a tremendous time with swayfx for the past few months, which I switched to from Hyprland.
If only it supported dynamic tiling… (and no, autotiling doesn’t cut it; Actually, I need to look into persway again and see if that can work)
Does COSMIC’s design suck or is it in pre-alpha?
No that is the design they want. If something is ready, then their design.
I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.
Watch the list actually get longer over time.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-i-customize-fedora-silverblue/127071
Including a bit of ranting
Bcachefs, and bcachefs on root. Need something with filesystem level encryption instead of LUKS, and *ubuntu’s and derivatives have all abandoned ZFS on root installs now.
Bcachefs has filesystem encryption without LUKS? Did this have an audit? I use BTRFS and it is fine, but boot is unencrypted (using TPM would be cool)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs
Bcachefs is a copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux-based operating systems.[3] Features include caching,[4] full file-system encryption using the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 algorithms,[5] native compression[4] via LZ4, gzip[6] and Zstandard,[7] snapshots,[4] CRC-32C and 64-bit checksumming.[3] It can span block devices, including in RAID configurations.[5]
I see it has an audit back in 2017, but I’ve yet to find anything newer. The finding was good, but suggested further audit be done.
I dont see the difference to BTRFS apart from encryption and maybe caching? I was always confused why people hype it so much.
Interesting, yes I wouldnt not use LUKS if the alternative is less known, not used by enterprise distros
The tiered storage stuff is pretty cool. You can say “I want this data on this disk, so if I get a cache miss from a faster disk/RAM it’ll come from this other disk first.”
I believe it also has some interesting ways of handling redundancy like erasure coding, and I thiiiink it does some kind of byte-level deduplication? I don’t know if that’s implemented or is even still planned, but I remember being quite excited for it. It was supposed to be dedupe without all of the hideous drawbacks that things like ZFS dedupe have.
EDIT: deduplication is absolutely not a thing yet. I don’t know if it’s still on the roadmap.
It’s mainly supposed to be simpler and by extension faster than btrfs (which is kinda proven by the fact that fewer devs made this thing work in less time when compared to btrfs). It happens to enable some extra features that way too.
However, while btrfs annecdotally had many issues, it’s used by big players like SUSE and even bigger ones like Facebook these days. bcachefs on the other hand is nowhere near as battle tested, so I’ll stay away from it for a little longer.
Does it have the self-healing capabilies of
btrfs scrupandbtrfs defragment? I guessbtrfs balanceis b-tree specific.I heard BTRFS is bettter than EXT4 because it can do these things, EXT4 cant
Bachefs is in the kernel now so trying it on a spare drive or partition is super trivial these days depending on distro. You only need a few minutes of time.
Getting it on root is a bit harder as almost no installers support it yet. The only distro I can think of is CachyOS.
It’s far more ready than Wayland, get it into these distro’s installers! Are you listening, distros?
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Anything beyond setting up a network-wide dns blocker on docker, so… crowdsec, fail2ban, some proxy-related stuff, zero trust tunnelers and so on.
Why? Because its overkill to my current setup and I don’t see myself using em for real other than for learning purposes, and thats it.
And before someone asks “Do you protect your server at all?”. Other than making some “hacky” stuff with my internet so all ports appear as closed whilst they actually aren’t? Eh, not really. Still, my server is about to reach a year of running nonstop 24/7 and it has never been hacked a single time since then, so naaaw.
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I want to use global keyboard shortcuts with Wayland that can be defined in the application, not the compositor. This makes using Wayland much more difficult for me.
And I also want to use proper Flatpak file permissions, but for Flatpaks to stop generating fake stupid random file paths so that this common issue stops being an issue:
Come in and set the file path to my games directory in my emulator. It works fine. Come back a few days later and it loses all memory of games, because it is receiving a file path from a portal that no longer exists.
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I want to use Neovim but I haven’t gotten around to really learning it yet.
That’s me as well, I’ve used vim for simple edits over the years but more and more just used nano for most of my terminal based edits. Finally ran vimtutor (mainly because I wasn’t aware of it) and wow, I should have done that years ago.
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I used neovim but recently switched to helix and highly recommend it. If you haven’t tried nvim yet, give helix a try before deciding. A good way to compare is do the tutorial of each and see which you like more
nvim +Tutorandhx --tutor(orhelix --tutor).If you’re a current vim user the helix keybindings are only a small learning curve after the tutorial, and feel a lot smoother imo
Could you elaborate on what helix is?
A keyboard and terminal based text editor, similar in some ways to neovim, vim, and vi
I’ve used helix for a few months and liked a few default keybindings. Didn’t like the reversed sequences (movement then action) so switched back to neovim and configured helix like bindings for some actions.
I love Helix. I like that it pretty much works out of the box and the only thing you have to do is install language servers and in some cases configure them, but that’s (mostly) well documented. No need to install plugins or use a preset “distribution” like with NeoVim. I also like the built-in keyboard shortcut hints, for example when you press g (goto) it shows you what key will do what.
The way Helix does “select first, then act” is subjective, but I like it.
Agree on all counts. I didn’t like finding and comparing plugins for neovim, and then wrestling with environment stuff to get them to work, and having to change a bunch of options to get nvim to work how I want. With helix, my config of things I’ve changed from default is very small, and there’s no wrestling with plugins.
And yeah, “select then act” feels a lot smoother and more intuitive to me. If you like that and like plugins tho, check out kakuone
This is the reason I liked kakoune right away after I started using it: select, then act, and every movement is also a selection.
I tried out Helix, but I think the biggest issue that I have is that with (neo)vim, I can use the keybindings in most of the editors I use through a plugin (such as IdeaVim for the JetBrains suite) - but I do not think the concept of Helix keybinding plugins have really hit anywhere.
Helix itself seemed really cool when I was playing around with the tutor mode though.
Yeah I only really use it for personal stuff for that reason. There’s a vscode plugin, but last time I tried it it was really slow
The learning curve is absolutely colossal, especially if you want to use it as a full IDE. Even with the legend panel it still doesn’t tell you have the story
NixOS
My drive to nix was so I could simply manage what packages I had installed with a text file. If I removed something from the file, I expect it to be uninstalled. I never found a tool/wrapper for apt to do this.
If you want to start with nixos, I would take whatever distro you are on and install nix and then home manager. Then, you can slowly migrate your user configuration over without starting from scratch. That worked really well for me going from ubuntu to nixos.
Agreed, but I found getting NixOS the way I want it, to be super overwhelming, and documentation simply sucks. I’ve been thinking of forking ZaneyOS (Link: https://gitlab.com/Zaney/zaneyos) and basing my NixOS config on it. Otherwise, it’s just too much.
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I tried it a while back, thought it would be good for my servers, but at the end of the day I found that it was a lot of learning for a very small benefit that could be achieved differently. Instead I focused on learning Ansible which also allowed me to write configs to deploy lots of services to my servers. I still want to learn Nix at some point, but I feel it’s a lot less important if you have an Ansible playbook that does the same thing and even more for any distro you might care to install.
I think the problem is that most people dive right in and go to NixOS which has its quirks as a linux OS (see FHS). The Nix language is great at building and moving source code between computers, really any big collection of binaries. If you don’t do that, try just using the nix-shell command to instantly run a piece of software without installing it. You can write a shell.nix file to hop into and out of an environment with whatever software you need. Once you can write a couple .nix files then move onto NixOS; which after all is just a big collection of binaries.
I just started yesterday in a VM. It’s no stress and you can easily put your configuration on metal after. Pretty fun stuff.
I have my garuda installation just where and how i want it to be. NixOS just always seemed very interesting, but i don’t want to run it on my daily machine.
Don’t, you can still install nix into Garuda. Works great as a separate package manager that won’t get in the way.
The most satisfying part of the NixOS process is deploying to bare metal and watching it work exactly as you intend it to
Zed - I’ve been kind of using it for one-off edits, but it’s just not mature yet for most languages.
And they use extremely bad coding practices
Have a source?
Somewhere on Lemmy but dont bother to look as it has no search.
There also is a Github issue. Search for “zed automatic download plugins”
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I kind of want to try wayland just to be modern, but I’m pretty happy with xmonad and don’t want to learn another window manager.
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You might want to look into River, a tiling Wayland compositor inspired by xmonad. Disclaimer, I’ve not actually used xmonad before so I’m not in a position to compare the two. But River is configured entirely through riverctl commands. Its “config” is an executable, by default at
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/river/initbut you can point it to a different path, which can technically be any executable file that just executes when River starts. Ordinarily it’d be a shell script calling all the riverctl commands you want to get your River set up the way you like it, but it could be any executable you like really. You can also use other languages other than shell scripting.It’s still in pretty early development, but I daily drive it for my main general-purpose machine and it works completely fine. I use it for web browsing, coding, gaming, chatting, general productivity, etc, all works. I’ve noticed some minor hiccups but nothing breaking or unusable. Tbh I would say it’s more stable than Hyprland which I’ve also used and have noticed that Hyprland updates (especially from git) would frequently break it, whereas I was running River compiled from the latest commit of master branch for a while and never had an update break things.
Kakoune, NixOS, dwl.
There are several things I was doing in X-Org that I really don’t have the capacity to figure out in Wayland. One of them was customizing touch pad shortcuts, I used to like having 3 figure swipe commands that worked like keyboard shortcuts. The other was my KVM programs like Barrier seems unable to work in Wayland.
I hope for simple solutions to these problems in the future.
I think the new Wayland fork will fix that
