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A space biologist by training and a (Arch)Linux user by passion , https://www-gem.codeberg.page

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Thanks for the tip. I know a lot of people are going for Thinkpads and you’re specific recommendation may seem interesting but I’d like to support other companies like the ones I bought from so far (Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell, Vaio, Acer, PB, Razer) and I’d also like to build my own laptop from the start.

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Thanks for a nice feedback. One more vote for Framework ;)
I don’t use a DE, so this would not make me go with them. Also, I’ll use Arch anyway, not PopOS.

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Thanks for the feedback.

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Can you expand on that?

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There’s a hype around floorp right now. Certainly because it’s new and it offers a high level of aesthetic customization.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me because:

  1. it takes up too much RAM compared to others. Even though people don’t really care about that on modern machine it goes against my philosophy.
  2. I’ve been tweaking Firefox for a long time to get the highest privacy possible but it was extremely painful and I don’t want to redo that with floorp.
  3. my system look is extremely minimalist and I remove any visual effects in apps I use which would go against the point of floorp.

These are some reasons why I went with librewolf since it was released in 2020. It’s efficient, well maintained, kept up to date with the latest Firefox version, and most importantly to me: deeply respectful of your privacy. Their privacy approach is very well explained in the FAQ It passed all the EFF tests better than any browser I’ve tested after hours of tweaks.

This is only my personal experience and preference. Per the Floorp developer himself privacy is not given the utmost care and users should prefer librewolf in that regard. If you want to use normal privacy and excellent Firefox derivatives, with no doubts, floorp will fit your needs.

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I use mull on my phone but I can’t find it in arch, that would be nice. Do you have a link?

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Thanks for sharing. I’ve not been sold by the info on their website. Too many details are missing. At a glance, privacy concerns seem better addressed by librewolf. Also there have been some issues in update history cycles and some reviews (which I won’t cite here with respect to project) didn’t help in building confidence.

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Oh you mean mullvad! They’re two different apps.

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You’re right.

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One would say you’re more weird than me then. That makes me feel better ^^

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Looks like the group is eventually not that small.

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Right. Actually one of the things I love about Linux is that it offers so many options so you can make your own combination to create the perfect system for your specific needs.
You can get all the visual distractions out of your way and tweak litterally everything to an incredible granular level. No other OS can pretend to be so user focused while staying so simple in appearance. You’re not adapting to your system, it’s built for you.

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Source Code Pro for writing and Nerd for symbols.

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That’s another thing I’ve changed as well. No bar or dock anymore. I use rofi and some home made scripts to:

  • show the date/time, disk space, free ram, bluetooth devices battery level, volume, and search bar (to launch a command or a search on internet)
  • manage the volume sinks and sources
  • manage the wifi and vpn
  • manage my passwords and automatically fill forms if I ask for it
  • manage my internet bookmarks
  • search my email contacts
  • manage the clipboard
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We’re exactly on the same page: “the tool is not the goal”. The only difference may be that I see chosing options for an app as options for a tool. If I want to cut wood or metal I need a different saw. Even though the tool is basically the same it doesn’t serve the same purpose. Hence I configure options once and for all, like I would consider which hardware I need exactly in terms of use, ergonomic, power… before buying it.
I don’t spend time tweaking the look of a tool because it’s doesn’t fit my approach of things anymore. As such I don’t even use a DE. But I feel the need to build the right tool (i.e. system app) I need to perform a job as efficiently as possible while keeping the tool itself minimalist and as invisible as possible. On my daily use I have tools that I couldn’t live without anymore but if you ask me a list I will either forgot them or put them at the bottom because I will not think about them right away since they became a second nature.

I certainly see the comfort of the out of the box approach and it can serve a lot of people. In my use case I just realize that - using the example above - it could be like using a wood saw on metal in some cases. It may work but not as good as you would expect to have the job done properly. Also, the fit them all approach means building an app with tons of options activated and I prefer to have available to me only the options I really need. The philosophy feels less bloated to me and I’m not overloading my system with stuff I’ll never use. It’s more time consuming at first to chose the right app but with time it became quick enough and it definitely save me way more time in the long run when I use my system.

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Both iosevka and fira look nice.

looking for lightweight launchers but...

Hi guys, I’m a blackberry keyone user and I’m pretty much used to. Due it have only 3 gigs of ram I began to use Mini Desktop launcher, that goes only to 40 mb of consumption. My doubt is, there’s another lightweight launcher outside the non distraction ones? (Olaunche, ulauncher, mlauncher…)

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It’s not user friendly at first and that’s certainly why it doesn’t get the love it deserved. But once you figure it out, you can build the launcher you want and never have to go back to the config anymore.

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Thanks for the feedback. I’m used to packer but it’s not maintained anymore so may be a good time to switch to lazy.
I’ll see if I can have it work in NixOS.

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It worked. Thanks! Just a question though: why is there instructions and all the packages in NixOS if it’s not yet reliable?

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Thanks for this feedback, it helps me feel a little bit less stupid :) With everything setup in NixOS documentation for neovim in appearance I thought really dumb to not be able to have it worked.

Using the approach proposed by @flashgnash (i.e. using lazy.vim) let me install neovim and all my plugins.

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Thank you for your help. I ended up using the approach proposed by @flashgnash (i.e. using lazy.vim) which let me install neovim and all my plugins.

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Thanks very much. That’s exactly what I needed. I’m still not used to the diversity of NixOS documentation and was not aware of this one.

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Thanks! I’m still not used to the diversity of all the NixOS documentarian and was not aware that arbitrary options can be found there.

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Just realized that I had this line in my config already but the change was not applied until I reboot. 😳

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As I said I’ve actually done it before asking… But I didn’t reboot and and that was needed for the change to take effect ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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