Nothing. Which is great: everything already works for me. Any improvements and extra market share is cool. But I'm vibing already.

I don't see why the moderation tools couldn't just be improved on Lemmy. The new moderator view has been very useful for me as a moderator. We already have Lemmy and Kbin. The Sublinks about page doesn't say how it is going to be different/better than the existing options apart from moderation tools. On top of that it is made in Java instead of Rust? That's just going backwards in my opinion... This post also does not state why you guys are interested in a Lemmy alternative. You could have named some issues you have with it and why something else would be better(just like the Sublinks guys could have done in their about page). I started my communities here and put a lot of effort in them. I can't just switch instances without destroying most of the work done. The language used here really makes it sound like this instance is on borrowed time. Being able to transfer communities to another instance would be nice...

• set a good tty font (it's almost all you're gonna see)
• be comfy with basic core utils (mv, cp, chmod, ...)
• choose a shell (bash, fish, ...) and set up some useful aliases/abbreviations
• fzf or something similar does wonders (also replaces things like dmenu)
• terminal multiplexers are used instead of window managers
• some applications allow you to do some graphics (like mpv to play video)
• there is more advanced stuff you can do with frame buffers
• there are terminal browsers like w3m or lynx
• a good extensible text editor is essential (vim, nvim, emacs, helix, ...)
• research some cli applications for your usecase (cal (calendar), neomutt (email), ...)

Over time your collection of aliases and scripts will grow to make common tasks you do easier.

New? Does it come with 2080 packages out of the box?

Many already have nvidia before they start with linux. I'm still on my 1060 from 2018.

TWM resize your windows automatically as you create windows or move them around. This is the key: TWM's work best with applications that work well in a variety of sizes. Usually this means text based applications: terminals, IDE's, browsers, chat apps, etc. GIMP for example didn't really work well for me unless I used it on its own workspace. It comes down to this: how much of the time do you use text based applications? For me, that's almost always. I rarely touch something that is not a terminal or a browser. For you it might be different. Good luck.

You know that in the FOSS space Microsoft does not have a good standing. Asking people on a FOSS based social media to give anonymous answers about another FOSS project through a Microsoft service is a bit of an oversight.

I once just needed to take notes in a lecture so I didn't start my X server and just wrote in vim in TTY.

I completely hid my tabs with custom css and I'll never go back. With something like vimium-c you can switch tabs with vim-like bindings and an fzf-like menu. If you have lots of tabs, the fzf way is way faster to pick out a specific tab than it is to look for it in a tab row (or column). If you have few tabs, you don't even need to see them to know where they are. I'm being very serious. Tabs are bloat. I recommend trying it out if it is something for you.

(edit) On top of that, it looks so clean. You get a bit more space for the actual content (I also hide my url bar, it pops up when you use it). It fits right in with a keyboard focus workflow, you get consistent keybindings across vim and your browser (I use the same keybinds for switching buffers in vim so it feels the same).

I use doas just because. It's not necessary at all, but it can't hurt either (I think). It might be a bit more secure (fewer features -> fewer code -> fewer bugs -> fewer vulnerabilities, need to give password more often). Kinda cool if you want more minimalism for fun (I replaced startx with sx...)

Man I used to do SketchUp all the time in middle/high school, so nostalgic.

I think he wants to dual boot tumbleweed and windows, not two linux distros.

If google had a baby she would drop it on its head.

I always log in to my TTY. Have you tried setting your colour scheme before login? I have a mega janky setup where I add an OpenRC sysinit service that calls setvtrgb. The first lines of the startup log aren't affected but most of them are. That way I can log in with a colour scheme consistent with that which comes after the login.

You can call it low effort, but Lemmy is a "link aggregator". Even just sharing links has its value.

433 packages, impressive :) I'm stuck on 474 while keeping a working environment where I can do my things nicely. And that doesn't count some hand compiled/written programs I have. Also, 175MiB of memory! I used to boot at around 400MB into my WM but over time it has gone up to a fat 600MB without changing anything :| Just nice to see someone going for a minimal system.

I tried fastfetch which was very fast, but didn't work correctly for me. It told me I had 16 flatpaks installed, but I don't even have flatpak! On another preset it gave the wrong number of pacman packages installed. The coloured bars also rendered with visible seams in between because it uses characters instead of colouring the background. It also didn't show my terminal font at all. I can't open issues because I didn't bother to activate 2fa on my github account. I ended up writing a simple fetch for fun, it shows pacman and rust packages, learned a few things about terminal escape codes.

but every distro I’ve tried has a strong sense that if you’re using the GUI you don’t need or deserve admin controls

It's not that you don't need or deserve it. The thing is terminal tools are already available. To get the same stuff with GUI someone is going to have to make that stuff. Most people with the skill to make things like that probably don't care enough about GUI to be inspired to make such tools. Since using the terminal is easy and natural to them. When it comes to FOSS, since people work on it in their free time with no payment, they are likely to only put significant effort in things that they would use themselves.

Are universities automatically "elitist brain-rot" when they participate in rankings? When it comes to privilege, yes, rich kids that don't deserve it are accepted into ivy league universities because of the connections they have. This is not a good thing obviously. Most researchers receive the privilege of working there because of their good research done at other universities. That is why they stay on top: a lot of excellent researchers want to join those universities. Obviously MIT has a very good standing when it comes to CS. The dick-measuring contest is but a small part of the university ecosystem. Also, neo-caste system is a quite strong. Most ivy league researchers are probably not rich or powerful. For that you have to look at our "friends" in the C-suite. I understand the sentiment, but I find "hate", "elitist brain-rot" and "neo-caste system" way too strong.

If you do a lot with your keyboard, it is annoying to get your hand off it and switch to your mouse. And then to switch back. If a task can also be done with the keyboard, you can just stay there and that is quite comfy.

I don't know if you should, but you can. I use Artix for my only computer (also used for uni). It never killed itself. I did once, which was my fault. But I just fixed it.

but depending on who you ask Arch is either the most stable distro they’ve ever used or bricked their pc ten seconds into the install process

This very funny, and true. Arch is almost as stable as its user :)

FYI, the options at boot have nothing to do with this. At boot you might have different options for different OS's. When you pick linux, it will start up. Only after login will a DE/WM like Gnome/Nimdow start. If you install multiple WM's, they will not show up in your boot menu. Some login managers allow you to switch between them at login.

Well I guess they just don't think it is necessary to have a n-ary tree. I use i3 but I rarely have more than 2 windows open per monitor (apart from my floating scratchpad terminal). Usually I have just two windows side by side per workspace. So if I would switch to bspwm I wouldn't really be limited by it. That is also my reason for not switching to a dynamic tiler: I never split my windows enough to where it matters.

I ditched ZSH a long time ago because it wasn't snappy. From what I remember, things like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc were written in ZSH and not build in. In something like Fish it is build in and it felt much faster to me.

I use fish abbreviations. Unlike bash/zsh aliases, they expand when you press space or enter. This way you see the original command every time you use the alias, and you can edit as well. This should lighten the concern you have a bit. Your concern is something that sysadmins keep in mind e.g. default vim bindings so you are always comfortable on any server. However for desktop use I don't think leaving the speed and comfort on table is worth it. Most desktop users only use their own systems anyway.

There are some DAWs like Ardour and LMMS for linux. The bigger issue is plugins. They are mostly NOT for Linux. There are some but the selection is not big. You can use a VST-bridge like Carla. It worked for me, I could use proprietary windows based VSTs in LMMS on Linux. However, I wanted to go fully FOSS. This is rather difficult. You make it sound like there are a bunch of open source plugins. This was not my experience. Especially not if you are looking for more specific things. If it is like that, shit has changed radically for the best the last two years. I had some coding projects related to music production so I would just try to build whatever I needed. But I dropped these projects unfortunately.

I'm not a thinkpad guy, but I thought one reason for people liking old thinkpads is that the old ones came with cpu's that predate the intel management engine.

All this time I thought that an existential crisis was having a crisis about the fact that you exist, not about the fact that you will not exist in the future.

For my LineageOS phone I use ADB: adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to get photos I've taken for example.

As a "sicko" (lol) I must say I don't really futz around much if at all anymore. There are some differences but all in all I don't think the Artix experience is much different from the regular Arch one.

Void. I was so excited when I booted into TTY. A blank canvas like never before.

Don't let me catch you with a desktop environment. * points Gnu/Glock with no attachments (optional dependencies are bloat).

Arch do argue themselves that it is the point of Arch that you configure the system yourself: https://archlinux.org/about/ Of course, one can build on top of it with different aims. Manjaro claims to be user-friendly on their homepage, but I can't find further philosophy/about/design decisions where they explicitly state why they changed certain things.

Bloat is relative to the user. If I have a piece of software installed that I don't use, it is bloat. If a program has features that I don't use (especially if they get in the way) they are bloat. Random config and cached files from programs long gone are bloat. It is not really about saving CPU/RAM/disk resources. It's like keeping my room clean. I also consider any UI element that is not strictly necessary bloat, because it gets in the way, takes up screen space and doesn't look clean. I have 485 packages on my 3+ year old Artix system right now (and some things I compile). Sometimes it can be higher if I use some extra software. But more than 700 hundred packages will start to feel uneasy. An example of bloat: I used startx to start my X server (like almost everyone else). Then I replaced it with a small shell script (sx). It worked exactly the same for me, I couldn't notice the difference. That means that everything startx provides over sx is bloat in my case: completely useless. You can see it as a form of minimalism.

Speed of a package manager should never be a major concern nowadays.

I would like to disagree with this. It's not just updates. Sometimes I add and remove a bunch of packages back to back to test stuff out or check soft dependencies or pull/remove dependencies for projects I am checking out and compiling or switch between prepackaged/compiled versions. For example I was once testing the difference between wine and wine-stable-ubuntu in combination with winetricks installed/uninstalled. That is four configurations and you might visit each one more than once. I once saw a classmate use the fedora package manager in real life and I thought it was quite slow. I am happy with pacman, it really rips through packages which is convenient.

Interesting, I never heard of setting your shell in the emulator config. I just used 'chsh' once when I setup the install.

I understand the end result you want to achieve, but what do you mean with "parse a rss reader through ffplay"? Parsing is taking in a string (text) and building some datastructure from it (like an AST). You can parse a rss feed (it's XML) but I don't get what parsing a rss reader is. Also "through ffplay"? You want ffplay to parse your rss for you? Or do you want to parse rss and than have ffplay somehow display the result (the news headlines taking from the feed)? ffplay displays videos and images (I use it as my only video player lol). If you want to render some text underneath a video stream I think you need ffmpeg first and than pipe the result into ffplay.

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Vim uses these commands like di" (delete everything inside "") instead of chords (holding multiple keys down at once). Both work fine. The reason vim does this is that many regard it as more ergonomic. You don't stretch your hand/fingers out and you can keep your fingers at homerow. You might have heard about people getting an "Emacs Pinky". It's basically down to preference. I don't use emacs but I know people use vim bindings in emacs (emacs is very scriptable after all). That way you can try or integrate vim like bindings without leaving your comfy emacs.

Artix. I went Void -> Arch -> Artix. I can't help but feel that Artix is what Arch should be. Perfect blend between the Arch and Void experience.