wwwgem

wwwgem, 1 year ago

I agree. Have you ever owned one?

wwwgem, 1 year ago

Thanks very much for this important feedback. Framework is definitely taking the lead in responses to this post.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

Any more details to share?

wwwgem, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago)

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

wwwgem, 1 year ago

Both iosevka and fira look nice.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

Looks like the group is eventually not that small.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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

wwwgem, 1 year ago

You’re right.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

Exactly.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

Thanks for the update. Have fun!

wwwgem, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago)

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, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago (edited 7 months ago)

I use ytfzf to search/watch videos on YouTube, Peertube, Odysee.
It has several add-ons including one for playlists. I didn’t try it though.

wwwgem, 1 year ago

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, 1 year ago

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.

wwwgem, 1 year ago (edited 7 months ago)

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, 1 year ago

I can see that from a server maintenance point of view. After having read so many great things about NixOS, I may have exaggerated my expectation and I may be the problem for being a user with too limited needs to get the full benefits of NixOS.

For me this single config file doesn’t save that much additional files and most of them would be files you configure only once during installation. Nonetheless I can see how “easier” it would be to save one file instead of 3 to reproduce your system and I can only imagine how much better it is from a server point of view.