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wwwgem, to linux in Thanks for my free therapist session
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Both iosevka and fira look nice.

wwwgem, to linux in Thanks for my free therapist session
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You’re right.

wwwgem, to linux in NixOS - edit system files
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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.

wwwgem, to linux in Linux Newbie - Curiosity
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Thanks for the update. Have fun!

wwwgem, to linux in Which terminal emulator do you use?
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I’ve been scrolling with no hope to see st anywhere but here it is! Only mentioned twice for now but this little guy deserves so much love. Yes, you have to build it (i.e. patch it) but that’s actually it’s beauty. You get the exact terminal you want, nothing more, nothing less. If you’re looking for power and lightweight this is your guy.
Coupled with tmux and you’re the God of your system :)

wwwgem, (edited ) to linux in NixOS is better because...
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Great feedback, thanks! I’ve appreciated being able to replicate my system in NixOS within only few hours. I found NixOS actually pretty easy to take a grasp on, though I still didn’t look at flakes in detail. You spot on the reason why I’m using Arch and a bunch of applications you can tweak to perfectly meet your own specific needs (neovim, neomutt, bspwm, rofi…).

I love spending time to config them and to learn new things. This is basically why I’m interested in NixOS as well. Being entirely satisfied with Arch and not being a distro hopper, the fact that I installed NixOS means a lot to me but now I need tangible reasons to fully move to it. Maybe time will help me in my decision.

All the great feedback in response to this post so far confirm how great NixOS is and I had no doubt about that. I may realize what it can bring me after some weeks of serious use. Thanks again for the time spent to write your feedback, very much appreciated

wwwgem, to linux in NixOS is better because...
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Thanks for taking time to share this detailed thought. That’s an interesting point I forgot because I didn’t experience any related issues over 15 years with Arch but that’s still a nice approach. I can certainly see why this is a big plus for NixOS.

wwwgem, to linux in Laptop companies: which one?
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Any more details to share?

wwwgem, to linux in Laptop companies: which one?
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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.

wwwgem, to linux in Thanks for my free therapist session
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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
wwwgem, to linux in Linux Newbie - Curiosity
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Exactly.

wwwgem, (edited ) to linux in Share your Linux-related Blogs/Websites
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Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to read some great new stuff!

My little one where I promote some apps I think deserve more love, talk about neovim and zsh cool tweaks, and share my experience with some bigger projects (like building your own split keyboard, testing a new distro…).

https://www-gem.codeberg.page

I also follow https://lazybear.io/index.xml

wwwgem, to linux in X11 tiling WMs
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I would need to go back to my old dwm config file but I think what you’re looking for is this patch. In bspwm this is achieved with the “follow” option as shown in my example.

To restart dwm without login out and back in you’ll need this in your .xinitrc:


<span style="color:#323232;">while :; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ssh-agent dwm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span>

Then whenever you kill dwm with kill -HUP $(pidof -s dwm) it will actually be reloaded. Seems like there’s also 2 patches to do that now (note that they both mention the above method as well).
dwm.suckless.org/patches/restartsig/
dwm.suckless.org/patches/selfrestart/

wwwgem, to linux in X11 tiling WMs
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You know how hard it is to explain personal preferences when we talk about tiling WM but, as I mentioned in my first post, I would say that bspwm offer some further granularity. I didn’t thought that was possible after using dwm but to come back to my example I have bspwm listening to the state of my media player. Everytime it becomes floating, bspwm resize the window, place it on a specific position, and add a border to it. This is just one example. Also, even though you can use it with any tiling WM, sxhkd has been developed with bspwm in mind and offers the best keybindings management I’ve ever tested. Thanks to chords, several commands can be associated to independent keybindings within the same piece of code like so:


<span style="color:#323232;">control+{_,shift+}{1-9}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   bspc {desktop -f,node -d} '^{1-9}' --follow
</span>

Control and a number will switch you to a workspace. If you also press Shift the active window will be sent to a given workspace.

wwwgem, to linux in NixOS is better because...
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You’re spot on and that’s what this discussion helped me figure out: I have no problem. I knew that but I also thought that NixOS would bring something new to improve my Linux usage. So far I still see such improvements for servers or deployment on several machines but not for a single user with standard needs (and this statement may be wrong and due to my limited experience with NixOS).

But NixOS approach is quite different from others and I feel like I may discover something of interest to me once I learn more about it. Also, just for the sake of learning and discovering, I will continue experimenting with it for a while.

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