I can’t get used to vanilla GNOME. First things I always install are Dash to Panel, ArcMenu, Caffeine, AppIndicator support, and Pop Shell. It’s basically Cinnamon with a tiling/stacking toggle and without the need for a “restart if it crashes” setting.
Oh wow, this is really nice. I was using System Monitoring Center but this is so much nicer. My only complaint is no CPU temperature display but that’s not a huge loss.
Windows had 2 pieces of software that didn’t have a better alternative in Linux, now I just gotta find something like Notepad++ and I’m good.
I have tried both and I absolutely don’t understand why people use those. Most IDEs work better in my opinion and for just editing text files nano is better. A lot of people way smarter than me use em but I don’t see the appeal.
Idk I just kinda got used to neovim and made a custom color scheme too lol (although I’m still learning), but I might go and try out Geany again, I haven’t used it in a while. And I don’t use neovim for everything, I use vscodium for editing stuff like html and css
Nah, I’m looking for a nice text editor, not a full on IDE. Something I can quickly open to change config files and stuff that has good formatting and can also auto detect the formating. By the time vscode boots up I have gotten bored and done the changes in nano.
Have you tried Bluefish? I started using it recently for editing a web app, and I really like it. It loads quite quickly on my laptop, and it’s got a mini file browser on the left hand side that lets you open files directly with a double click. Handy for when you need to edit a few files at a time :)
I have to say that I used to be a timeshift fan but I’ve started moving to snapper instead. Both are very similar but with snapper you can have multiple configs, one per sub vol. each with different settings. I like having a separate root and home schedules set up. Means I can restore one or the other independently. Works a treat.
Nice. I’ll check it out for sure. That post I followed also i a link to the authors scripts to run a btrfs snap before apt runs.
Frankly I just moved some configs over before I did the wipe. My Linux desktops aren’t too customized.
I had to work around his how to a bit since I use nvme and a pre-partitioned disk that I had to pre-format lvm to (he used a default install run to pre-format the disks)
I can highly recommend fedora to a newbie. It’s easier to use than ubuntu. It doesn’t come with snaps. You only need one or two methods of installing apps. It’s safe. It’s well written. It’s supported very well. It’s updated frequently. It incorporates innovative technology.
I’ve slowly over the last 16 years come all the way around to Fedora. I started with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, explored Mint and then Debian, then played around with Arch, moved to Opensuse Tumbleweed when it began, and now all Fedora and Fedora derivatives.
I think the most interesting Fedora projects rn are the immutable desktops, Silverblue and Kinoite. I might consider testing out Opensuse MicroOS when the desktop versions are more stable.
A pi 3 model b for a hosting project in high school and a pi zero w to host discord bots. I like the Pis and I basically ran them headless. I had a plan to turn a portable display into an AIO computer of sorts. But that costs money I do not have at the moment.
So Linux doesn’t work for your use case or you’re not interested in the benefits vs the extra time and effort. So what? Us “old fogies” are enjoying it fine.
I had a few Raspberry Pis and some Libre Computer boards a while back, but I recently decided to just build a beefy small form factor PC and put Proxmox on it, and honestly couldn’t be happier with the results. The ability to allocate resources for services and containers on the fly is a game changer. I can spin up a fresh container running whatever service I want in a matter of minutes without the hassle of flashing to a device and setting up networking, etc.
Gentoo, for its user choice and lack of bloat. I’ve been using it for a long time, and can create my own packages for personal use if I don’t mind them looking like Frankenstein bodges, so that’s another plus. It’s stable enough if you stick with actual stable-marked packages and don’t go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot, and if something does go wrong at the distro’s end, 1. they usually fix it pretty fast and 2. rolling packages back is easy if the older version is still in the tree (and usually still possible if it isn’t, although it can get kind of involved).
Would I recommend Gentoo to another user? That depends on which user. You kind of have to be either knowledgeable or willing to learn—it isn’t a “just works” distro, although some things have been streamlined in recent years. You do have to put a little time into maintenance, but it’s usually on the order of less than half an hour a week.
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