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Discover5164,

i’ve used kde with bismuth for a long time. now it’s dying… polonium is it’s successor but still a long way ahead.

i have high hopes for cosmic

Discover5164,

how does this compare with silverbullet?

can i link pages? do queries?

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16k liked songs and counting

entire system backups onto the server - how?

Hey there, I have a (very) small Ubuntu server and I was dabbling on the idea to do system backups (entire system, meaning, if the disk of the said pc fries, I can get another one, put the info from the backup on the new disk, works immediately afterwards). I have a couple of Linux mint machines and a windows one. I searched a...

Discover5164,

you could use btrfs snapshots of the volumes you want to preserve. then send the snapshot to a remote location.

if the ssd fries you just need to download the snapshots and restore their layout.

i have a script for it and i use it on my server: github.com/simone-viozzi/btrfs2cloud-backup

Discover5164,

i use bismuth / polonium on KDE. both are very bare bone, but it’s nice to have a full plasma desktop + tiling.

let me know if you happen to know a better combination

Discover5164,

i’m stuck with windows, but i moved everything inside WSL… so at least vscode it’s on Linux.

i’m a heavy multitasker used to tiling WMs, multiple desktops on windows is torture.

Discover5164,

i have no autopause on seed ratio. if you download lilo & stitch it probably was from me, it has 500+ ratio.

but i limit upload speed (10mbps) otherwise my isp will complain… still doing ~500gb daily upload

Discover5164,

you need no preserve root otherwise it will fail

Discover5164,

you totally can, via userChrome.css

superuser.com/a/1424494

Discover5164,

i dislike horizontal tabs, so i go with sidebery / tree-style-tabs. also use a lot of pinned tabs and they sit on top of the list of tabs. this way i can have ~10 pinned tabs and still remember what all of these are.

Discover5164,

i have a git bare repository in my home and use dotbare to manage it.

here you can find all of them github.com/simone-viozzi/my-dot-files

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i would totally buy one for my desktop

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Discover5164,

use pamac and always read the post on the forum.

you should have the thing in the panel that links you to the post of each update. (forum.manjaro.org/t/…/69066)

i’m on manjaro from ~4 years ago. it never broke… still a couple of times i had to restore a timeshift backup.

i will switch to nixos once i learned enough of it.

Discover5164,

i just got a ThinkPad for work, it’s spectacular. but if you need to replace something…

the framework is solid, and allows to replace anything. i think the tradeoff is very fair.

Discover5164,

i have the same requirements as you. i bought framework 13.

i’m still in the confuguration phase, for now it has a decent battery run of ~6/8h of installing stuff. i’m configuring nixos.

Discover5164,

it’s not automatic since it will eat resources while it’s running. but it’s a feature of btrfs.

Discover5164,

you can create them afterwards and move the stuff into the subvol. do it from a live usb and don’t forget to update fstab. be sure to use rsync with the flag to keep permissions etc

Discover5164,

i’m on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)

otherwise arch

Discover5164,

you can block the community.

if the app you are using allows it, you can filter keywords (sync can)

Query about your linux daily drivers?

So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other...

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i have been on manjaro kde for a couple years, the hardware changed during the years. right now i’m on a 2700x with a 3060 and 32gb of ram.

i’m planning to wipe it for pure arch / nix / silverblue kde (sorry i don’t remember the name)

not because is unstable or anything, i just want to do some cleanup and maybe change my workflow a bit

my current workflow is kde + bismuth for tiling, almost everything controlled by the extra buttons on the mouse

for a more detailed description: lemm.ee/comment/6503411

i’m very open to suggestions!

Discover5164, (edited )

i do have a beefy machine… i have 32gb of ram :)

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.

Discover5164,

i have a very very similar setup as yours.

the differences are:

  • 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.
Discover5164,

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

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it requires admin permissions… and on the only place where i’m forced to use windows i don’t have those

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it’s either 3 things at the same time or nothing for 4 hours

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