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flashgnash,

There is an ISO somewhere, I always struggle to find it

After that you can just download from within the VM, mount from within windows and run the installer exe

flashgnash,

Who is they? There are many tools to run VMs on Linux not maintained by rhel

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....

flashgnash,

As a hyprland user, gnome is great and I would recommend it to pretty much anyone

Hyprland is great if you consider your machine a toy as well as a tool and enjoy spending hours customising and theming

I would choose my hyprland setup over gnome 9 times out of 10, but I’d choose gnome over someone else’s setup every time because they actually know what they’re doing and make a great one size fits all DE (my hyprland config takes very heavy inspiration from GNOME with a few changes to suit my personal preference)

flashgnash, (edited )

I found the opposite actually. I tried others’ configs but nothing clicked and I didn’t learn about the bits I didn’t really care about

Starting from scratch, got the bare minimum to use it (launcher, three finger swipe, terminal bind) and then just attempted to daily drive it fixing bits as I go

Also always had the option to bail back to gnome on reboot if I needed to do something urgently that didn’t work

flashgnash,

I start overheating past 30 I would hate it there

flashgnash,

I think you eventually get used to it whatever you wear

I tend to be the shorts and t shirt in the middle of winter guy, but when I put a hoodie on it’s the most comfortable, perfect temperature you could imagine

flashgnash,

Hallmark red and hallmark blue. There are certain characters you can only get through trading with someone who watched the other film

flashgnash,

It’s also Nvidia and will bring pain and suffering trying to game on linux

flashgnash,

Unfortunately this doesn’t really work for me, the ideal use case is either have reader mode automatically enable where firefox thinks it should be able to (which is not always that accurate anyway)

Alternatively I might look into making an extension that just has a whitelist of all the sites/domains to use it on that everyone can contribute to

flashgnash,

Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop

Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling

flashgnash,

Oh really? When I used it on windows I couldn’t move for features and this was years ago. Crazy to think it’s got even more on mac

Anyone want to try this "nyancat" docker image? It's pretty big -- 23kIB. :^) (hub.docker.com)

Long, short story: CLI animation with some minor annoyances. “Handcrafted” most of em out of the .c file, followed by a bunch of gcc flags. Made it distroless, and this came up. Then my “sharing itch” started after checking the memory usage of the container at a whooping 0 bytes. (I know it must be way more than that,...

flashgnash,

I would imagine it’s just to experiment with docker

flashgnash, (edited )

Not with that attitude!

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    flashgnash,

    That actually sums up Linux pretty well

    flashgnash,

    If your main concern is UI distro doesn’t really matter, the thing you need to think about is desktop environment, most big distros let you choose from a few

    TL;Dr I would suggest looking for a distro with kde plasma as it’s quite customisable and looks quite clean out of the box. Personally I prefer gnome out of the two but you definitely hit a wall eventually customising it

    Gnome is what Ubuntu and fedora use by default I believe and looks somewhat like Mac (but is fairly distinct from everything else, you kinda have to see for yourself)

    KDE Plasma is what the steam deck uses in desktop mode and looks kinda like modern windows.

    Cinnamon is what Linux mint uses which also looks like windows 10 and is designed to appeal to windows users

    Pop!os recently released their own DE called cosmic, but they were originally using their own customised version of gnome

    flashgnash,

    NixOS and to a lesser extent nix package manager is great for this. Write a config for your entire setup, which will take a long time, but then you can carry that config with you through any and all future machines, and have every one of them setup just the way you like from the beginning

    I would highly suggest using NixOS for something like this, however if you don’t want to/can’t the following should apply to pretty much any other distro

    Most applications in Linux save their config in ~/. config/ or ~/.configname , if you copy these files and directories over to your new machine all your old settings should persist (this won’t copy applications themselves but will copy their settings for when you reinstall them)

    (though be warned this is a messy way to do it if you just copy absolutely everything without thinking, some settings you probably don’t want copied over)

    flashgnash,

    +1 have been trying to make a Linux tablet work. Gnome is alright but it’s got a crap CPU and 2gb of ram and nothing lightweight has good touch support annoyingly

    flashgnash, (edited )

    I was trying things along the lines of hyprland, sway and i3. I have this idea in my head that a touch screen tiling WM would work really well (from what I’ve seen that’s what people love so much about the iPad nowadays anyway)

    Hyprland has something called hyprgrass I think which enables touchscreen gestures, still in the process of figuring out how to install that in NixOS though. (it’s got a nix.flake but it’s not in nixpkgs and I’m still unsure of how to install flakes to a traditional configuration.nix setup)

    flashgnash,

    I got a pretty good setup going with forge, problem is gnome is too heavy, this thing has 2gb of memory and like 2ghz CPU

    flashgnash, (edited )

    I think pretty much anyone buying one those laptops who wants Linux already knows how to install it and let’s be honest if it ships with any given distro I think most would install their preference over it anyway

    flashgnash,

    I don’t think gnome is particularly customizable visually, you can change theme and use extensions if you really want to buy their main focus is making one really good UI and I’ve gotta respect that

    At least in my opinion gnome looks far better than KDE out of the box, KDE just looks like windows to me

    Gnome has fairly good window snapping as well I think and stuff like pop shell and forge for tiling

    flashgnash,

    What’s wrong with it? I’m currently using nautilus as my file browser on hyprland and it’s more than servicably

    I don’t really use a file browser that much anyway so I might not be the best person to comment though. Tend to find it quicker and easier to move files around from a terminal then any file browser for everything except choosing a file for something

    flashgnash,

    If that’s the only reason for switching couldn’t you just install kde’s file browser on gnome though? Or any file browser for that matter I don’t think it forces you into Nautilus

    flashgnash,

    I think you might just need to set your xdg default no?

    flashgnash,

    It’ll be pretty easy to find it given that the field is barren

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