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mcepl, in Writing program
@mcepl@lemmy.world avatar

Not vim necessarily, but I would really suggest thinking about a plain text editor of your choice and some of those lightweight markup languages (Markdown itself, reStructuredText, ASCIIDoc … I prefer rST, but they are mostly the same). Exactly because it allows me to concentrate on the content and ignore formatting. Besides, formatting, do you write for print or as everybody else these days for HTML? Why do you need a large word processor which is build primarily for preparing documents for print? Every serious text editor has some kind of plugins with spellcheckers, grammar checkers, dictionaries, etc.

qyron,

I like so say I want someday to see my work out in the world in the form of (e)books, so I want to keep my options open.

vojel, in Terminal Utility Mega list!
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Zsh becomes really handy with oh my zsh and powerlevel10k theme

ohmyz.sh

github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

And for neovim I made the transition from vim with lazyvim: www.lazyvim.org

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

You can replace almost all aspects of oh my zsh just by using fish shell. Like straight out of the box it does most of it. I switched off of a completely customized zsh (oh my zsh didn’t do enough for me) and fish is able to do everything I did with my custom zsh setup.

HexesofVexes, in Terminal Utility Mega list!

mocp - For when you want to listen to music in terminal.

gaael,

My personnal favorite is cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player

HexesofVexes,

Will give it a try!

Thanks for the recommend.

embed_me,
@embed_me@programming.dev avatar

I used to use cmus

BeardedBlaze, in Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?
@BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world avatar

This doesn’t work on Wayland lol

kugmo,
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

Based, X forever staying relevant.

fruitycoder,

Time to update “Are we Wayland yet?” With this breaking lack of feature support.

waigl,

Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.

BeardedBlaze,
@BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world avatar

Have you?

GermainRobitaille, (edited )

Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its –transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don’t know, I haven’t been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.

troyunrau, in [Resolved] Why does the font on Lemmy.world look like an eyesore?
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Back in the day, debian used to render fonts badly to avoid a potential patent trap. Is that still a thing?

cmnybo,

All of the ClearType patents are expired, so that’s not an issue anymore. OP probably just has anti-aliasing turned off for some reason.

elbarto777,

No.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m getting old, it seems. Kids these days probably don’t even have to configure modlines in XFree86. Sheesh. ;)

jelloeater85, in Terminal Utility Mega list!
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

I’d add micro to the list of editors. It’s really nice step up from nano.

Steamymoomilk,

Added to the list! And it looks pretty neat, I will be playing with it later cheers and thanks!

Trent,

Nice. I’d never heard of micro, but it looks good. yoink

caseyweederman,

I really like Micro. I wish my fingers could forget all the nonsense Nano keybinds

ProdigalFrog, in Nobara 39 Officially Released

Interesting to read those linked GNOME issue threads, they’re really living up to their reputation… Looks like KDE is becoming the premier gaming DE, and I’m pretty happy with that.

isVeryLoud,

I’m a GNOME developer, and KDE is unfortunately the gaming and colour accurate work desktop at the moment.

Kinda wish the GNOME committee would pull its head out of its ass.

bizdelnick, in Terminal Utility Mega list!

You forgot cowsay.

naught,

cmatrix too!

GrundlButter,

Someone once showed me sl. Bless them.

naught,

AMAZING. Bless you

ooterness,

Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.

gibzag, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?

I had a few random log outs in Fedora KDE, nothing major, but I would recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed instead.

mortalic,

Ok, why opensuse? I kind of forgot about them.

richardisaguy, (edited )
@richardisaguy@lemmy.world avatar

Opensuse is stupid fast + its very very stable. Would risk saying its unbreakable(at leaat with regular updates)

mortalic,

Unstable? Would you mind elaborating with some examples? I was literally just downloading it

richardisaguy,
@richardisaguy@lemmy.world avatar

STABLE****

mortalic,

Hah! Ok I was so confused

frankfurt_schoolgirl, in What are your opinions of Guix?

I think that it’s a great project, and I hope it succeeds. My sense is that there is more momentum around Nix, so for a lot of uses it just makes more sense.

Guix and Nix both have the same issue imo, which is using a loosely typed language with an odd syntax. I feel like something both strongly typed and with a more common syntax would be easier to edit and faster to evaluate.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

So, I actually learned about Guix via GNU Shepard. It sounds like NixOS just uses systemd, which I don’t love. Not in a dramatic way, and I’m currently running systemd, but it does break the Unix philosophy.

A Haskell-based package manager would be pretty dope (seeing as that’s the gold standard for that sort of language). I wonder if someone’s working on it.

tastysnacks, in Terminal Utility Mega list!

Somewhat simple?!?! I feel the disrespect.

madnificent,

Emacs: “What if your Operating System and your text editor had a child.”

ultra, in [OC] Bibata Cursor v2.0.5 - w/Endless Personalization...

I’ve used the black one ever since I found out about it, thanks a lot for these lovely cursors!

krimson,
@krimson@feddit.nl avatar

Bibata Oil for me for a couple of years now. Love it!

jxk, in Is anyone using awk?

Awk has the advantage over Perl/Python/etc. that it’s standardized by POSIX. Therefore you can rely on it on all operating systems. It’s pretty much the only advanced scripting language available that is POSIX – the alternative would be some heavy shell scripting or almost-unreadable sed.

d3Xt3r,

Therefore you can rely on it on all operating systems.

… all except that one OS which we don’t like to talk about but annoyingly remains the most popular consumer OS. :P

yetAnotherUser,

Android?

ad_on_is, in Make Inkscape installed through Flatpak callable in the terminal as 'inkscape'?
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Why don’t you check for both and use the one that’s available, otherwise print an error. Additionally you could read an env INKSCAPE_BIN and also include that in your checks.

So one could for example do INKSCAPE_BIN=‘distrobox enter arch – inkscape’ python main.py

cyberwolfie,

It is not my package, but I could of course go ahead and change the source code directly to handle this. But I’d prefer a solution that would persist through updates.

Hexagon, in Terminal Utility Mega list!

ncdu: shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files

tig: interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality

sjmulder,

Two of my favourite tools!

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