2 Do you have libnvme and nvme-cli installed? If no, try them, if yes look up things on the manuals. It may be that your bootloader can't read/mount from the nvme
3 Ever since systemd-boot appeared things have been not working so well, now, have they?
I’m like you as far as being the opposite of a multitasker, except I solved things with hardware. Getting a 32:9 monitor was fantastic because I can have one 16:9 window in the center and two 8:9 windows at the sides. The center window is big enough that the side windows are barely, if at all, in my peripheral vision, so it quells my anxiety with having multiple windows open.
Nice post tho, some good info in there since I’ll be switching my daily driver to KDE soon
Wow, buying a big monitor sounds like an idea that could work. I’d never even thought about doing that, since most of the times monitors like those are used, as far as I have seen, to get a better multitasking experience and I am the type of person who simply leaves one fullscreen window open at the time. But if it leaves your peripheral vision, I guess it is definitely possible.
I don’t think it’d work for me, but honestly, sounds like a great idea to have in mind! I’m having a lot of fun learning about different people’s workflows like this.
Wow crazy detail. I’ll read it when I get a chance lol. I stopped at “I’m a single tasker” I recently learned about the term “monotropism” which is so me.
I had never heard that term. I think I am bad at multitasking, but not to that point! :0 Maybe I’ll take an online monotropism test tomorrow and see what I get, just for fun
15 minutes from booting the ISO to a Plasma installation is probably average. There are probably people who’ve done speed runs in 5 minutes. archinstall has gotten so good.
I’m on like day 2 of Garuda. Ran into corrupted packages during the install which wasn’t fun, but it’s up and running now. I’m hoping that maintaining it isn’t as much of a time suck as it sounds like pure Arch is.
i have 2 screens, i use a grid of 20 desktops for each screen. the grids are synced between the screens, if i go left on one screen, it goes left on the other
i have tiling; i use bismuth to add the tiling to kwin. i have set up shortcuts like meta+f makes a window float etc
i have an mx master mouse with the thumb button and other configurable buttons. i have logiops to remap those. clicking the thumb button will bring up the desktop grid. thumb+up goes a desktop up, etc… this is extremely comfortable to use
i have configured the task manager in the panel to only show apps opened in the current virtual desktop. this way i can have a Firefox for each row for example.
That’s very interesting, especially the mouse part. I hadn’t thought about remapping its buttons to anything related to KDE, and unfortunately I don’t think that is possible in mine.
I am also surprised you can manage 20 desktops in two monitors. How much ram do you have, both in your brain and in your computer?! And the part where the grid is synced between the screens also feels a little weird to me, but even though I only use a single monitor, I can definitely see the appeal. Obviously, the biggest issue with doing that is that you have to have corresponding workspaces on both monitors at all times, but with 20 workspaces on each side, you can certainly get a lot of combinations. You could get two instances of firefox open in a different sets of workspaces, one for work and another for leisure, for instance. Firefox profiles are great for that!
Even then, I need to say it, 20 desktops on each side is a lot. For such a large number, you could consider activities, but since you seem to change desktop through the desktop grid, with no need for shortcuts, I can see how it becomes more manageable. Your setup seems very creative and unusual, at least for me.
the mouse part is the part i like most. usually people use this kind of workflow to not use the mouse… i did the opposite. in kde with meta+left click you can move windows between monitors or to reorder them in the tiling. and with meta+right click you can resize them. this means that opening 2 windows will open them with half screen for each (because of the tiling) but with meta + mouse i can reduce one window (and thus enlarging the other), it’s very fast and very convenient.
the 20 desktops are a lot but i don’t use them all, i generally organize my work in rows. but sometimes i use the desktops differently and i like to have that kind of flexibility.
i actually used 2 activities to separate work and personal, with 2 separated Firefox profiles. so i had 40 desktops for personal and 40 for work… :)
but activities have their own set of problems, like, there is no shortcut to send a window to another activity, you have to do it from the menu in the panel. and after a reboot, sometimes windows get thrown into the wrong activity, and that’s very annoying.
to add a bit of context, i’m a software engineer, and the combination i use most is vscode on one monitor and Firefox in the other. with maybe dolphin on a neighbor desktop. this repeated 4/5 times depending on how many projects i’m working on.
Wow, now that’s a very intricate setup. The fact that the windows don’t go to their corresponding activity seems weird, maybe it’s a bug? Seems like it’d be hard to find the cause, though.
Also, when you reboot, do the windows with different firefox instances stay with the same tabs open? Are the profiles kept? Since I prefer to start on a clean slate, I start a new session and simply autostart my usual apps which are bound to their respective desktops. But if even those two are kept, it does seem pretty damn great. Pretty similar to suspending, in a way. Too bad about the activities part though.
yes after a reboot stuff gets reopened in the same place it was (sometimes some windows do not, is not 100% stable). but only windows that support saving themselves into the session get reopened, stuff like vscode or Spotify do not. Firefox and kde stuff yes.
Firefox is very stable in this regard, it always reopens all the windows with all the tabs in the right desktops.
the activity part is definitely a bug, its a kde + X bug and it is in wontfix state. i hope they will rework this feature on plasma 6 with Wayland
This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.
Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup
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