dino

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dino,

This is so ooooold. :D

dino,

I dont understand, give context, who is binex-dsk and why should I care?

dino, (edited )

custom windows that rarely gets update…

sounds like an amazing idea.

dino,

flash android phone = putting another OS on it? I use grapheneos, installed from my linux tumbleweed.

dino,

Using a tiling wm and wanting to move windows around? 🤨

dino,

Its common sense to learn new stuff going to most complex way. But enough sarcasm for today.

dino,

I’d rather use macOS than windows anyday.

dino,

Yea Gentoo is the go-to for new users. Are you from the last millenium?

I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

dino,

MPV, although you could also have used it on windows already. Also freetube, you can also combine those two with a little bit of internet search.

My ubuntu installation broke completely

I think that installation was originally 18.04 and I installed it when it was released. A while ago anyways and I’ve been upgrading it as new versions roll out and with the latest upgrade and snapd software it has become more and more annoying to keep the operating system happy and out of my way so I can do whatever I need to...

dino,

But I have four personal computers and multiple devices from the family to maintain and system administration is no longer my hobby …

but you are writing documentation for scripts?

dino, (edited )

With each new version of an application there’s the change that configuration files or functionality changes. Packages might even get replaced with others.

Even if this would be true, how would that impact your configuration? It doesn’t full-stop. If you want to access those new features you simply need to check how to activate them in your config file. Or are you making config edits in /etc/ ?!

Your next paragraph I don’t understand, it seems specifically aimed at some kind of self “maintained” script, which as nothing to do with rolling release or distributions.

dino,

Uhm you never actually used a rolling release distro obviously. Why would you have to read change logs? Also what are you referring to with “test my documentation (shell scripts)”? Why would those not work if package xyz is updated? You are not making much sense, but maybe I am lacking the experience in UNIX to understand your point of view.

Your package manager should tell you about conflicts and even if it doesn’t and something is not working like it did before, you do a simple snapshot rollback and wait another week to update or actually read what might cause the issue. And those incidents are like super rare, at least on Opensuse Tumbleweed (e.g. 2-3 times in a year).

dino,

People think “updates are time consuming” therefore prefer LTS because its supported for longer. I parole for quite some time that LTS has no place for private use and rolling release is the right way.

dino,

Iam using Tumbleweed for close to 10 years now and it was pretty mature from the start. You can’t go wrong with rolling release + perfectly configured btrfs + snapper by default.

dino,

I don’t understand what it means to "not get moved to backport repos, but this seems ubuntu specific. What you need is proper rollback/snapshot mechanisms in place. Looking at Tumbleweed which offers it out of the box. For Arch you can set it up yourself or use something community made like EndeavourOS.

LTS has no place on personal desktops.

dino,

Nerdfonts ofc.

dino,

The last point is new to me, will check it out, thank you!

dino,

Can you also give arguments to your opinion?

dino,

Are you still using bash?

dino,

The thing is, helix has useable defaults, you dont need plugins, thats the whole point for me. Keeping plugins up to date across machines and making sure they work is just tiresome. In terms of tmux/zellij can’t say much, but I never got used to tmux because the controls seem unintuitive. Tested zellji just briefly and it seems it tries to show you the controls instead of hiding them, which is helpful if you are trying to get used to something.

dino,

While it’s not a replacement for an existing tool and isn’t in your list, nnn is very helpful in many cases, especially bulk renames and reorganizations.

Can you give an example on the reorganization benefits with nnn? I am using it myself but I still feel like a noob with it.

dino,

nu is probably the best shell for ad-hoc data processing, handling all my daily needs in one expression.

I am really struggling with this, I heard about nu shell some time ago, but the fact that you had to learn some form of new language made me reluctant to actually try it. As a fisher user I want to have sane usable defaults, without having to learn just another programming language for a “tool”.

What am I missing?

Spending a few days with Hyprland made me realize how awesome Gnome is

Don’t get me wrong. Hyprland is great. I like it a lot. It looks fresh, it’s easy to configure and the keybindings are super easy to implement, but it’s also very barebones. Most of the functionality expected from a DE come from external software. Be it a top bar, an app launcher, a notification daemon or anything else....

dino,

Why are you using hyprland synonymous for tiling window managers? Change title please.

dino,

Write a script.

dino,

use ssds?

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