What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?
For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).
Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
NixOS
Nix flakes, me.
I just started yesterday in a VM. It's no stress and you can easily put your configuration on metal after. Pretty fun stuff.
The most satisfying part of the NixOS process is deploying to bare metal and watching it work exactly as you intend it to
I have my garuda installation just where and how i want it to be. NixOS just always seemed very interesting, but i don't want to run it on my daily machine.
Don't, you can still install nix into Garuda. Works great as a separate package manager that won't get in the way.
Agreed, but I found getting NixOS the way I want it, to be super overwhelming, and documentation simply sucks. I've been thinking of forking ZaneyOS (Link: https://gitlab.com/Zaney/zaneyos) and basing my NixOS config on it. Otherwise, it's just too much.
I tried it a while back, thought it would be good for my servers, but at the end of the day I found that it was a lot of learning for a very small benefit that could be achieved differently. Instead I focused on learning Ansible which also allowed me to write configs to deploy lots of services to my servers. I still want to learn Nix at some point, but I feel it's a lot less important if you have an Ansible playbook that does the same thing and even more for any distro you might care to install.
I think the problem is that most people dive right in and go to NixOS which has its quirks as a linux OS (see FHS). The Nix language is great at building and moving source code between computers, really any big collection of binaries. If you don't do that, try just using the nix-shell command to instantly run a piece of software without installing it. You can write a shell.nix file to hop into and out of an environment with whatever software you need. Once you can write a couple .nix files then move onto NixOS; which after all is just a big collection of binaries.
My drive to nix was so I could simply manage what packages I had installed with a text file. If I removed something from the file, I expect it to be uninstalled. I never found a tool/wrapper for apt to do this.
If you want to start with nixos, I would take whatever distro you are on and install nix and then home manager. Then, you can slowly migrate your user configuration over without starting from scratch. That worked really well for me going from ubuntu to nixos.
Estroge- oh, I'm in the Linux community whoops
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Estrogen, is in fact, GNU/Estrogen, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Estrogen. Estrogen is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Estrogen, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Estrogen, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Estrogen is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Estrogen is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Estrogen added, or GNU/Estrogen. All the so-called Estrogen distributions are really distributions of GNU/Estrogen!
Is your gender POSIX-compliant?
"I use Estrogen as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Estrogen is just the kernel. You use GNU+Estrogen!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Estrogen, but it's not GNU+Estrogen.
The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If Testosterone was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
Whenever I see this spin, I just want to say: “No it wasn’t. It was compiled with Clang.”
https://chimera-linux.org/
No, no - legit! Do go on.
I have my Estrogen tablets sitting on a shelf waiting for me to finish with fertility preservation
docker I guess, I still don't know how it works, create them, etc
You don't have to know how it works in order to use it. I don't know either but I could host services using docker. trust me it's way easier than it seems.
Same here. Even easier if you use an app to manage it for you like dockge, portainer, Cosmos, etc.
You don't have to... if the project you want to use has a good setup process. Otherwise you'll be scouring Docker docs, GitHub issues, and StackOverflow for years.
Docker, how they work?
Docker? I barely know her!
I've been using linux on and off for 20 years and docker reignited my interest for running linux. There's plenty of good guides and free courses, if you need help finding one - let me know and I'll send you a YT playlist.
Docker compose is amazing. I don't even know how many things I'm running right now. Hell I'm running things I didn't even use! (I could easily disable or delete them; I'm just lazy)
How to docker-compose in thirty seconds.
Simply make a file called
Then paste in the text from your application's docker-compose instructions.
Often the timezone needs to be set, along with the volume
Example:
This means the application's data directory will be mounted at /mnt/hdd/data
Then
You're done, that's all there is.
docker-compose is fantastic because in a single compose.yaml file you can list multiple services.
For example, my compose.yaml file contains my sonarr/radarr/bazarr/lidarr/prowlarr/qbittorrent/deemix/jellyfish/jellyseerr
And I can update them all by running a shell script made of three lines.
its counter intuitive to learn but a godsend after you learn it
And then when to do learn it, it pisses you off when something doesn't have a freely available image.
Bcachefs, and bcachefs on root. Need something with filesystem level encryption instead of LUKS, and *ubuntu's and derivatives have all abandoned ZFS on root installs now.
What's your use case for FS-level encryption? LUKS has worked for me so far, I wonder where I'm missing out.
Bcachefs has filesystem encryption without LUKS? Did this have an audit? I use BTRFS and it is fine, but boot is unencrypted (using TPM would be cool)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs
I see it has an audit back in 2017, but I've yet to find anything newer. The finding was good, but suggested further audit be done.
I dont see the difference to BTRFS apart from encryption and maybe caching? I was always confused why people hype it so much.
Interesting, yes I wouldnt not use LUKS if the alternative is less known, not used by enterprise distros
The tiered storage stuff is pretty cool. You can say "I want this data on this disk, so if I get a cache miss from a faster disk/RAM it'll come from this other disk first."
I believe it also has some interesting ways of handling redundancy like erasure coding, and I thiiiink it does some kind of byte-level deduplication? I don't know if that's implemented or is even still planned, but I remember being quite excited for it. It was supposed to be dedupe without all of the hideous drawbacks that things like ZFS dedupe have.
EDIT: deduplication is absolutely not a thing yet. I don't know if it's still on the roadmap.
EDIT: Erasure coding is deffo implemented, however.
It's mainly supposed to be simpler and by extension faster than btrfs (which is kinda proven by the fact that fewer devs made this thing work in less time when compared to btrfs). It happens to enable some extra features that way too.
However, while btrfs annecdotally had many issues, it's used by big players like SUSE and even bigger ones like Facebook these days. bcachefs on the other hand is nowhere near as battle tested, so I'll stay away from it for a little longer.
Does it have the self-healing capabilies of
btrfs scrupandbtrfs defragment? I guessbtrfs balanceis b-tree specific.I heard BTRFS is bettter than EXT4 because it can do these things, EXT4 cant
Bachefs is in the kernel now so trying it on a spare drive or partition is super trivial these days depending on distro. You only need a few minutes of time.
Getting it on root is a bit harder as almost no installers support it yet. The only distro I can think of is CachyOS.
It's far more ready than Wayland, get it into these distro's installers! Are you listening, distros?
Neovim. I tried to use it a year ago, but I felt like I was fighting it every time I just wanted to make progress on my project. VSCode doesn't get in my way. I'm going to give it another shot in a few years.
Haven't used neovim, but I had to try vim way too many times. I can't use anything else now.
vim (or better yet vim bindings) is great. I'll never go back.
Try kickstart.nvim. I was skeptical until I tried it. It's a very good starting point for Neovim. Pretty much eberything else I've ever tried is either too bloated, too complicated, too outdated, too overwhelming, or a mix of the above. Link: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
If you aren't already, you could get familiar with the vim motions within VSCode via a plugin. Moving over to a vim setup can be overwhelming, setting up your lsp,linters, other packages. Adding on the need to still learn key bindings makes it extra difficult. I started with VSCode using vim motions, went to doom emacs and used evil mode and then my mentor got me hooked on vim. Do it in steps and you'll get to a config that lets you code without much fussing, good luck!
Oh, yeah, vim motions are wonderful. I started using them when I installed Linux on my Chromebook due to the lack of a good keyboard setup (I still don't know where the Delete key is on that thing).
I just moved from Neovim to Helix. I think it's worth considering, especially if you don't know the keybindings yet. Plus, Helix is probably easier to learn.
I want to use Neovim but I haven't gotten around to really learning it yet.
I used neovim but recently switched to helix and highly recommend it. If you haven't tried nvim yet, give helix a try before deciding. A good way to compare is do the tutorial of each and see which you like more
nvim +Tutorandhx --tutor(orhelix --tutor).If you're a current vim user the helix keybindings are only a small learning curve after the tutorial, and feel a lot smoother imo
I love Helix. I like that it pretty much works out of the box and the only thing you have to do is install language servers and in some cases configure them, but that's (mostly) well documented. No need to install plugins or use a preset "distribution" like with NeoVim. I also like the built-in keyboard shortcut hints, for example when you press g (goto) it shows you what key will do what.
The way Helix does "select first, then act" is subjective, but I like it.
This is the reason I liked kakoune right away after I started using it: select, then act, and every movement is also a selection.
Agree on all counts. I didn't like finding and comparing plugins for neovim, and then wrestling with environment stuff to get them to work, and having to change a bunch of options to get nvim to work how I want. With helix, my config of things I've changed from default is very small, and there's no wrestling with plugins.
And yeah, "select then act" feels a lot smoother and more intuitive to me. If you like that and like plugins tho, check out kakuone
I've used helix for a few months and liked a few default keybindings. Didn't like the reversed sequences (movement then action) so switched back to neovim and configured helix like bindings for some actions.
I tried out Helix, but I think the biggest issue that I have is that with (neo)vim, I can use the keybindings in most of the editors I use through a plugin (such as IdeaVim for the JetBrains suite) - but I do not think the concept of Helix keybinding plugins have really hit anywhere.
Helix itself seemed really cool when I was playing around with the tutor mode though.
Yeah I only really use it for personal stuff for that reason. There's a vscode plugin, but last time I tried it it was really slow
Could you elaborate on what helix is?
A keyboard and terminal based text editor, similar in some ways to neovim, vim, and vi
That's me as well, I've used vim for simple edits over the years but more and more just used nano for most of my terminal based edits. Finally ran vimtutor (mainly because I wasn't aware of it) and wow, I should have done that years ago.
NeoVim is almost a drop-in replacement for Vim (the configuration file is under .config). Plugin installation might be different, tho.
Find a migration guide and be brave.
The learning curve is absolutely colossal, especially if you want to use it as a full IDE. Even with the legend panel it still doesn't tell you have the story
Wayland, but I'm patiently waiting for xfce to support it
A fine day that will be!
Wayland here as well, but I don't see compositors having xmonad functionality that I need
Common Lisp. It would take a long while before I'm comfortable working on a project using that language. There's also Lem editor but setting it up is a pain on NixOS.
That’s my first time hearing of Lem—it looks fantastic. What’s the issue with it on NixOS?
I kind of want to try wayland just to be modern, but I'm pretty happy with xmonad and don't want to learn another window manager.
I migrated from XMonad to Sway, it checks all my requirements. I don't miss the Turing-complete configurability.
You might want to look into River, a tiling Wayland compositor inspired by xmonad. Disclaimer, I've not actually used xmonad before so I'm not in a position to compare the two. But River is configured entirely through riverctl commands. Its "config" is an executable, by default at
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/river/initbut you can point it to a different path, which can technically be any executable file that just executes when River starts. Ordinarily it'd be a shell script calling all the riverctl commands you want to get your River set up the way you like it, but it could be any executable you like really. You can also use other languages other than shell scripting.It's still in pretty early development, but I daily drive it for my main general-purpose machine and it works completely fine. I use it for web browsing, coding, gaming, chatting, general productivity, etc, all works. I've noticed some minor hiccups but nothing breaking or unusable. Tbh I would say it's more stable than Hyprland which I've also used and have noticed that Hyprland updates (especially from git) would frequently break it, whereas I was running River compiled from the latest commit of master branch for a while and never had an update break things.
Btrfs. I've been using ext4 for so long, I'm afraid that switching up will just annoy me.
Zsh: same reason.
Perhaps you are a more discerning filesystem user than I am, but I don't think I've actually noticed any difference on btrfs except that I can use snapshots and deduplication.
BtrFS has Stuff.
Fun story: once I needed to do something (resize? can't recall) a partition that happened to be in use. The solution involved
smbmounting a network disk,losetuphelping transform that thing into a virtual disk, then migrating the root FS there, recreating partitions, all while running the rootfs on that thing. Thus, pooling can bu useful.By the way, what does Zsh have over bash that you find useful?
Not OP , but regarding zsh, it has much better auto completion, and suggestion support. Additionally you can theme your prompt much more, see for example powerlevel10k
zsh has vi mode
Honestly, the only btrfs feature that interests me is the snapshotting, as the current state of my backups is rather sub-par. There's just a lot of inertia involved in adopting it when ext4 Just Works™. Maybe next time I install a new system I'll give it a shot.
As for zsh, I rather like the general "intelligence" I see on others' machines: the way it autocorrects typos, draws a navigable menu for tab completions complete with colour highlighting... it looks lovely. I've been a Bash user for 25 years though, and muscle memory like smashing the tab key to get what I want is a hard habit to break.
FWIW, the excellent ZSH Quickstart kit has been splendid for my transition.
Actually, tutorials like that are a big reason that I don't want to switch. The first steps are things like:
...and all I hear is: "this stuff isn't ready yet" and "I'm going to be staring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI".
If I can't easily and securely install a shell on every environment I use as I don't want to be constantly context switching, then I'm going to have to stick to Bash.
This really isn't a zsh problem, but a "people putting too much stuff in a 'getting started' config".
I used zsh for 15 years before looking at any plug-in manager, you can get a lot of the good stuff like the completion by just going through the first-run wizard included in zsh. A lot of stuff is included directly with zsh, including various prompt themes (which is what that tutorial wants extra fonts for, because they use a fancy prompt with custom glyphs; I don't think any of the built-in ones need that)
Things like fuzzy history search with fzf is usually included with fzf's distro package and the additional zsh-completions package for less used or newer commands is also packaged by most distros. In my experience, a lot of the other plugins are stuff that could be a standalone script instead of a plug-in anyway.
Well that's much more encouraging. I may just give it a try if the first run wizard is simple enough. Thanks!
There are several things I was doing in X-Org that I really don't have the capacity to figure out in Wayland. One of them was customizing touch pad shortcuts, I used to like having 3 figure swipe commands that worked like keyboard shortcuts. The other was my KVM programs like Barrier seems unable to work in Wayland.
I hope for simple solutions to these problems in the future.
I think the new Wayland fork will fix that
Niri looks really cool. I've used tiling WM before but scrolling is a unique take, perhaps more productive for some folks?
Nushell is a good one. I do data science for a living and it'd be nice to have the shell handle some small data transformations instead of writing a script in python. But all the syntax and behavior is very different than bash, so I've been afraid to start because of the learning curve.
Lapce, an IDE written in Rust. It's nice and light compared to most IDE's, so I use it a bit on my aging laptop from 2015. However, it doesn't have the extension ecosystem or polish of my favored IDE, VS Code.
Have you tried zed? Written in rust, has many extensions. I gave it a try, I quite like it. It's blazing fast. But I haven't tried on an old machine.
I haven't, but I have heard of it. I think parts of Lapce are based on some Zed algorithms.
Anything beyond setting up a network-wide dns blocker on docker, so... crowdsec, fail2ban, some proxy-related stuff, zero trust tunnelers and so on.
Why? Because its overkill to my current setup and I don't see myself using em for real other than for learning purposes, and thats it.
And before someone asks "Do you protect your server at all?". Other than making some "hacky" stuff with my internet so all ports appear as closed whilst they actually aren't? Eh, not really. Still, my server is about to reach a year of running nonstop 24/7 and it has never been hacked a single time since then, so naaaw.
How do you tell whether it's been hacked? The hallmark of a good hack is invisibility, like modifying logs. Do you perhaps count SSH sessions in your router and verify it against client logs, or somesuch technique?
any distro other than ubuntu but i'm lazy after ive been doing that shit all day at work
I've always wanted to contribute to an open source project but by the time I get done with the grind of the work day I don't have the mental energy to effectively work a second job competently.
I feel that so hard. Open source/personal projects seem just a little out of reach with my current mental bandwidth.
For what its worth, I know that while a lot of the hardcore Linux community seems to absolutely despise Ubuntu/Canonical because of snaps and whatnot, I don't think there is anything actually wrong with using Ubuntu if that is what works for you. Use the best tool for the job!
ive been feeling stability issues with it on the last cycles, pretty gnarly issue on gnome and they still havent pushed the point release that fixes it, been wanting a change but i need the machine for work, so i dont want to fuck around with it.
Ah, gotcha. May there be more stability in your future soon!
Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can't blame everything on snap!
touche. i like gnome a lot, but i wanted to try plasma 6 on another distro
Been rocking Manjaro with Gnome for a long time, but then Plasma 6 came out, I switched over and couldn't be happier.
Fair enough!
Well, Ubuntu does not force you to use GNOME and GNOME is not exclusive to Ubuntu.
So, what you are basically saying is that you use Ubuntu and hate GNOME.
Zed - I've been kind of using it for one-off edits, but it's just not mature yet for most languages.
And they use extremely bad coding practices
Care to elaborate?
Have a source?
Somewhere on Lemmy but dont bother to look as it has no search.
There also is a Github issue. Search for "zed automatic download plugins"
@apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
Elixir, or Gleam/pure Erlang/some other Erlang VM language. I think Erlang is extremely cool and I've enjoyed the little time I spent with Elixir. I also have absolutely no use case to make proper use of it.
I would love to find time to play with Gleam
Immutable distro. I love the concept but don't want to move away from Alpine Linux...
Use a LiveBoot one, then you don't have to!
Any modern DE in my fucking Raspberry Pi 5. I tried going Debian testing, broken packages. I tried installing other OSes, fedora didn't even boot, Ubuntu broke in installation and now won't let me log in.
Gnome in Debian stable feels too old and I can't get the screen keyboard working and disable the dann screen reader. I just want a box to put on my tv.
Edit: was idiot, thought raspberry pi de was gnome.also the rpi5 needs a custom kernel as some stuff isn't yet in the main one, so use raspbian.
Try Alpine Linux edge
I discovered that the default de wasn't gnome actually. It was raspberry pi DE, which isn't my thing.
Through I had no idea that the rpi5 required some stuff that is not yet merged into the kernel, and only raspbian works as a result, because they ship s custom one.
Alpine Linux has no default DE, I'm not sure what you're talking about. It's up to the user to install a DE.
I meant on raspbian.
I think a lot of the recent AI tools could be fun as toys to play around with, but I'm just very uncomfortable using tech that exploits everyone who doesn't own a huge megacorp.
Also, emacs as a replacement for my graphical editor. It feels like there isn't a "neovim" style modern version, and there's a steep learning curve to configuring it.
Also, Wayland. Come on, Cinnamon. ;_;
If you want something similar to vim or neovim, but without all the fuss learning how to configure it and install plugins and such, you could try helix.
I want to use COSMIC but its design sucks, I prefer KDE (and on the Rust side: slint).
I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.
I want to use Haruna or many other KDE apps, but GNOME/GTK apps are often better and I dont care.
I want to use Gapless as it is the only music player on Linux that seems to not suck? But it lacks many features.
Watch the list actually get longer over time.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-i-customize-fedora-silverblue/127071
Including a bit of ranting
Does COSMIC's design suck or is it in pre-alpha?
No that is the design they want. If something is ready, then their design.
Agreed. But I'm SO tired of trying to find and configure a good tiling WM that has rounded corners and isn't impossible to install or created by assholes (it also helps that nice QoL features like easy kb layout switching are included ootb).
Qtile, when scenefx support happens (which will happen when scenefx releases v1.0 aka anytime between this year and the next decade by the looks of things), will be perfect for me but until then, I'm torn between Qtile, Hyprland and COSMIC.
As far as rounded corners and easy to use, I’ve had a tremendous time with swayfx for the past few months, which I switched to from Hyprland.
If only it supported dynamic tiling... (and no, autotiling doesn't cut it; Actually, I need to look into persway again and see if that can work)
Ceph. I have some Raspberry Pi's that I'm going to set up a cluster with. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I half expect the performance to be relatively terrible, but maybe it won't and I can try to build something on top of the cluster in a sort of hyper converged setup.
It's completely overkill for a small home lab but that's what makes it fun.
executive function
Immich
Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying...
The dependencies and wonky updates mean it's not a bad thing to wait but it is good.
The dependencies get drastically easier if you use Docker. Likewise many, but not all of the upgrade issues also get fixed with Docker.
You can't just repull with your compose to update though. And something like watchtower might break everything.
fish. I think it has most things i want out of the box, so it should be simpler and snappier than my zsh setup. it's just that zsh hasnt bothered me enough to try it yet.
also nushell, im interested in the idea of manipulating structured data instead of unstructured text
Just take the dive into fish. It used to have a lot of problems with incompatibilities, but that's been less of a problem lately.
I haven't found nushell to be that great as a day-to-day shell simply because it integrates poorly with other Linux commands. But when it comes to data manipulation, it is simply amazing. I'm currently (slowly) working on a plugin to query LDAP. The
ldapsearchcommand uses the LDIF format, which is hard to parse reliably. Producing nushell data structures that don't need fragile parsing would be a boon.Python. Been wanting to learn it for years but all mental capacity I have toward such stuff is drained by work. The whole situation is ironic.
Look at "The Farmer Was Replaced"
LLM speech-to-text.
It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.
Still very cool!
Grab the Live Captions flatpak
Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I'll give it a try.
To be honest: my PC 🫢I just do not have enough free energy time
SimulaVR or any Linux VR desktop experience.
I want to lean back and be immersed on the desktop so bad, but only if it is worth the cost (e.g. not trading ever detail of house in ewal time to Facebook ...).
I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I've moved and don't have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.
I've been using Niri with
Xwayland-satellitelately, and it works as a charm. it works out of the box, and you simply run it in background, and launch your X programs withDISPLAY=:0curious to check that out, going to be testing wine wayland driver on niri as well
i3w - I want to try it, but thinking, that if I'll use other programs requiring mouse it will all be for nothing
i3, or Sway if you're on Wayland, just gets out of your way.
Have a virtual desktop for each use case, memorize where your apps are, and enjoy muscle-memory-based window management. Mod4+1 brings me to terminal, 2 is browser, 3 is work stuff, 4 is personal chat, 5 is email... Every app is fullscreen, for maximum screen real estate. Nothing annoys by blinking when I'm trying to concentrate on something else.
That's not true at all. I used to have pain in my wrist and went very heavily into keyboard centric usage. At the time I used AwesomeWM and Conkeror for a full keyboard centric OS, I also learned to touch type in Colemak at this time and bought a trackball. Eventually I started using PyCharm instead of Emacs, and Conkeror was abandoned so I switched back to Firefox, I switched to i3 for their better philosophy on monitors and workspaces, and switched back to a mouse for better aiming on games, and now I have lots of stuff that use mouse, but the pain never came back. And the reason is that while it is true that I still use the mouse, it's much less than I did before, the vast majority of the time I can be programming, run something in a terminal, go to the browser and do a quick search, send a message to someone on slack and go back to my code without touching the mouse. Sure, if the result of what I was looking for is not on the front page I'll need the mouse to click a link, and if the person on slack is not the one I was last talking I'll need the mouse to click his name, but those are two possible mouse movements for a full workflow of stuff that would have needed 6 or more mouse movements before.
what if I'm using dvorak, did you change your configuration for your layout?
I had to write my shortcuts for i3, so I didn't changed them, I just wrote what made sense, e.g. super+f for full-screen. Most of them are the "default" ones that the example configuration uses, but that's because they're sane defaults.
A billion dollars?
Do people even wish for a million dollars anymore? Shit doesn't even buy a home in most cities.
It’s a wish, why would I settle?
I love arch, but i'm planning on moving to atomic fedora eventually, but I use a bunch of niche things because i'm an early adopter, plus installing hyprland isn't easy right now
i'll switch to fedora atomic when pwvucontrol, tofi, hyprland, hyprland-autoname-workspaces, citrix workspace (work necessary), notiflut-land, bato, wljoywake, wayland-pipewire-idle-inhibit, ananicy-cpp, easyeffects, wl-mirror, gtk3-classic, keyd, iwgtk, qtalarm, kvantum and subliminal are all available, haven't checked which are yet
couple of those (pwvucontrol and notiflut-land) aren't even in the AUR yet so it'll be a while.
There are a lot of "I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it" social things like Matrix 😑
There a few things I've wanted to try for a while, but haven't gotten around to it.
AstroJS (I've tried it, but only half-arsed)... It's cool, but the lack of native react support scares me...
Cosmic DE... Still waiting for the alpha.
Python. It's a good language, I've spent some time learning it, I'm just failing to find a use case for it atm.
Textual (Python framework). It's really cool, but OOP scares me.
UKI. I'm still using grub because I know how to use it. I will definitely make the switch one day when I have an afternoon free or something.
My TV. *arr stilll not set up and the gaming rig is still in its planning phase.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the question is perhaps a bit of a weird answer--but I really want to learn SELinux. It's completely overkill for my Linux desktop and the few services I run on my network. The same with OpenLDAP, I want to play around with it even though I have no real need for it with my setup, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
On that note, I also feel like I want to learn Ansible, or some other configuration management tool. The thing is, I haven't even played around with it (or any others) enough to really even get what the intended use case is. I'm looking for ways to manage policies and configurations across multiple machines in a common way, but it feels like the more common use case is deploying webapps. So while it's on my list of things I want to learn I don't even have sufficient background at the moment.
Then, finally, the other thing that came to mind was timeshift--or really BTRFS snapshots in general. It would be nice to have that additional feeling of safety while playing around with my systems.
DNS ad blocker. My network setup is more complex than I can understand and if I set up AdGuard/PiHole I have issues.
Pihole let's you set up groups so you can always exempt certain devices from blocking if that's the issue. Otherwise you just need to go to your router and change the dns server to your pihole ip
I've been using a mix of Emacs and Neovim and plan to switch completely to Neovim when I have replicated enough of my Emacs config to be comfortable in Neovim. And speed is the main reason why.
Also, qutebrowser. I want to use it but it lacks workspaces support and as a self proclaimed tab hoarder I need my workspaces. I'm also still looking into a pasword manager for it (though I can always just use Bitwarden as an app)
pass, the standard Unix password manager. https://www.passwordstore.org/ Supports auto-typing, GPG encryption (multi-target, ie. each PC or phone has their own keys), Git history of all changes, synchronizing the storage via Syncthing. Probably something else I'm not remembering right now.
qutebrowser and Nyxt are both projects I desperately want to be capable of replacing my web browser.
I've been using niri lately and couldn't believe so many apps wouldn't launch. I didn't know that was the issue. I had been manually editing so many desktop entries to make them work...
I want to learn stenography, but haven't really got to buying a keyboard designed for it. I also want to host an EteSync server, but the HTTPS thing has been a bit of a headache for me and I've mostly just left it sitting there.
There are alternatives if you want to host your calendar and contacts and sync them securely. You could use Radicale and put a reverse proxy in front of it (Nginx Proxy Manager makes it easy to set up and easy to get and renew certificates).
Thanks! I might use that, since I do already have Nginx Proxy Manager set up.
I would like to give a proper try to a tiling window manager. I would like to try QTile, but I haven't gone through the documentation to understand how to customize it properly. Currently, I use GNOME (and actually, I like it a lot). Also, I love TMUX, and the idea of having the same flexibility and keyboard-centric experience on a broader level makes me think that I will love a tiling window manager when I try it. I'm interested in QTile because I know it's configured in Python (which is a programming language I already know), and apparently, it can be used on either X or Wayland. Have you ever tried using it on Wayland? Does it work properly? Besides QTile, what else would you recommend?
I'm a big sway fan - it's the Wayland equivalent for i3
Customisation takes a bit of time (as with all these sorts of things) but it was very stable for me once I had it set up
Seconding Sway. I will admit I prefer autotiling (switching the split for new windows between horizontal/vertical automatically, rather than choosing which split you want), but overall Sway is so good in configuration that I still use it in spite of being a manual. The configuration takes time, but that's common to pretty much any tiler.
Thirding sway, although I use it with gnome. It's a very good first choice for a tiling window
Fourthing sway, specifically swayfx and (as someone already mentioned) autotiling, both of which are available in the Nix repository without hassle.
Thanks! You've all convinced me to try Sway. As soon as I have time to dive into the configuration, I'll give it a shot!
FOSS remote camera control and fine art printing software is top of my agenda currently. Got a few avenues of enquiry but any recommendations would be welcomed, particularly on the printing side. I'd also like to become expert at using my current programs, especially GIMP and Ardour, for my own use but also so I can teach others.
Virtual reality, but an old friend of mine has kindly offered to buy me an Oculus Quest 2 so I'm very much looking forward to what VR can offer.
One of my closest friends also did the same thing for me, I quite enjoy playing beat saber :)
I highly recommend Pistol Whip!
Nginx. I'm going to learn soon but I'm still new and it seems easy to screw up exposing things to the Internet.
If you have to learn from scratch anyway I would consider caddy and traefik. I think those might be a bit more modern and user-friendly than nginx.
Same, niri. Want to move away from hyprland for so long. Also Emacs but I don't want to spend months configuring.
Also a foss android distro, but I can't find one for this phone.
there are also lots of other things like common lisp, Redox OS, cosmic desktop, trying to make my own compositor, rope science, activity pub, webtransport, bevy, ecs, and much more.
Edit: Hey, I finally installed niri and everything works!!!!!
I kinda wanna try Gentoo just for the experience, but as someone who already uses Arch, I'm worried it will take up more of my time than my current setup already does.
Having my TrueNAS scale homeserver host some pihole, VPN and *arr. I’ve fallen behind the times.
What are you using instead of emacs? I'm very happy with my doom emacs setup and it doesn't feel slow at all imo
Nano. Everything except nano and its forks is weird and bloat.
Ed is the standard editor.
Have you tried neovim? More powerful than nano, but still super fast.
I'm not talking about performance but learning curve and unnecessary features. I don't really want to learn any key bindings or a whole new ecosystem just for a text editor I use to edit a config once a month.
Also that comment was sarcastic.
I used Doom for a while, but it was still slow. I’ve been replacing emacs with more unix-y tools (helix/neovim as editor, yazi for file manager, etc.). I really just miss the design of emacs (the self-documentation, the infinite extensibility, etc.). I hope someday maybe Lem will fill my needs (which I just learned about yesterday).
I want to use global keyboard shortcuts with Wayland that can be defined in the application, not the compositor. This makes using Wayland much more difficult for me.
And I also want to use proper Flatpak file permissions, but for Flatpaks to stop generating fake stupid random file paths so that this common issue stops being an issue:
Come in and set the file path to my games directory in my emulator. It works fine. Come back a few days later and it loses all memory of games, because it is receiving a file path from a portal that no longer exists.
Have you tried copying your data into the flatpak's sandboxed 'environment in
~/var/app?Wayland on a 3070
Have you tried it with the recently released Nvidia drivers (I think its v555) yet? I hear the experience is greatly improved now that the drivers and compositors are both using explicit sync.
Kakoune, NixOS, dwl.
Virtual Machines, but I'm too dumb to figure it out.
oooo. niri is a good one. I've had it installed on my fedora system for... Hell I don't even know how long but I just haven't been using it. I've really been wanting to use NixOS for a while but haven't had the motivation/determination to sit down and learn it.
Mainly Firefox. It has quite a good extensions engine, but the overall UX just still isn't there compared to other browsers. I really don't care about all the ethical or moral reasons people try to come up with for using it, I just want a browser that has a lot of good functionality in comparison with Edge or Vivaldi.
And while I am aware of some of the forks like Floorp and Librewolf, I find the latter to be too hardened, and the former to be behind compared to upstream.
Firefox is really pretty customizable, more than most other browsers.
I've been using this theme: https://github.com/Naezr/ShyFox
https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
This is the one I'm using, if anyone needs another suggestion. I also have some local modifications to remove the minimum tab size. I don't have a hoarding problem.