Yup. At my last job, I did my best to produce quality work, I got an award for making zero errors in a year, and I was one of the go-to people for new employees to ask for advice. I trained new team members, even while I was still a temp myself. Eventually got told that I was joining the team that dealt with all the escalation emails. I only knew how to work on 2 of the many types of products that went into that folder, but it was mandatory to work every single email that went into that box, 2 hour shift, every email had to be answered by the end of the 2hrs. I also only had a single 30min super quick “training” on how to even answer the emails (really complicated template system, which I still did not understand by the end of it)
I told my manager I wasn’t comfortable working in that box, considering they never trained me to work on most of the other products, but she ignored me and said I’d figure it out. Luckily, I only had to do it once, then they delayed my actual start date for that task, until I got laid off (along with most of the rest of my team) 3 months later. YAAAAAAY. :|
They got rid of my whole team to get rid of me? Lol, I don’t think so. The job was mortgage related, and the work volume tanked in 2022, after blowing up in 2020. I was just a barely above minimum wage minion, with no team members under me. I honestly think that along with there not being enough work for all of us, they wanted to eliminate WFH teams.
Thank you everyone for all your suggestions! I’ll quickly try to summarize them for myself. So what you suggest is:
Operating Systems:
NixOs
Debian 12
ElementaryOS
mint
PopOs
EndevourOS
Fedora
arch
Opensuse
Novara
Tiling Window Manager:
Recomended to use something based on wayland.
hyprland (can be configured from file, good compatibility with nix)
sway (proposed with Debian, multiple suggestions, config via file as well, good for custom keybindings, already options for sway in nixos)
i3
bspwm
KDE Plasma
dwm / dwl
Status Bar:
swaybar (in case of using sway)
waybar (when using wayland)
eww
ags
KDE neon
Package Managers:
flatpack
brew (is this already stable enough?)
Nix (obvious choice if nix os chosen)
snap
(pacman if arch)
integrated one
Packages:
together with wayland alacritty or kitty
foot
Yakuake
suckless
At the moment I am trying to avoid anything where RedHat is involved. Not because of the recent controversy, but simply IBM is known to kill their software solutions on a whim. (although i still use ansible), so Fedora is unfortunately out (again, no judging on how great it is). I’ve been quite interested in EndevourOS, so that might be fun to try out. Debian for the desktop probably not right now. I’m running it on servers for stability, but for a desktop environment, i prefer having more recent packages (e.g. neovim). The “sales pitch” for Mint sounded pretty interesting as well. However i’ll give NixOs a try first, simply because it was mentioned very often, same with sway.
Based on this i’ll try out these combinations first:
NixOs with sway and eww
NixOs with hyprland and waybar
NixOs with dwl and ?
If this does not satisfy, i’ll look into endevourOS and mint, but that might require some Ansible I assume.
But I don’t see the unique selling point of it compared to alacritty and kitty, besides web-enabled. Is there anything that it does better than these 2?
They took Dark Souls off the market when its remaster came along. Microsoft is not above doing the same. If nothing else, you’ll need a copy of the original Oblivion in order to play Skyblivion when it comes out. Of course I’m sure you’ll be able to get it somewhere. Really I just wanted to play it again with the Shivering Isles expansion.
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