Go to? Probably Mint. Such a good distro. Unfortunately I recently joined camp KDE Plasma and no other desktop environment can even compare.
I’m on Fedora KDE now. Solid distro for now at least.
If I need to return to monkee: EndeavourOS
I got into linux at ~20 in ~2010. It’s great but got anoyed with installing windows support for games/work, and have been stuck with window since. The game engines I work on and the tools I use (visual studio, visual assist, vsvim, etc…) simply refuse to cooperate on Linux and I can’t spend valuable work time fighting my distro.
Windows is soon forcing me to switch, and changing my entire workflow, but I’ll keep it going as long as I can
You needed to replace the workstation release identity package with the plasma release identity one. I don’t remember the exact names but that will let you uninstall all gnome packages.
I don’t use awesomewm anymore, but used to. I am wondering if maybe it wouldn’t make sense to have a tiling wm community instead for content reasons. Could split out an awesomewm one later when there’s more lemmy users?
Just an idea. (also, I wouldn’t mind the space to talk about i3)
To be honest I’ve argued the exact same in many parts where people have suggested having individual communities which would split larger ones. Lounge hangers suggesting one per game. Or anime fans wanting one per anime.
So I kinda agree. Except this one time! 😜
Cos I like Awesome and wanted a chance to promote it to people.
Cos I’m full of optimism that Lemmy will explode in success such that we’ll need an individual AwesomeWM community pretty soon.
So I’m maybe a tiny bit hypocritical. But I prefer the term “hopeful”.
If you have any ideas, wanna help out, have any questions about Awesome, whatever! Reply or gimme a shout!
Syncthing. I rotate different Linux operating systems daily, but all my data is synced with Syncthing between all my machines, smartphone and a server. Kind of like Chrome OS in that I can wipe or reinstall the OS and be instantly back up and running, or even install a new version of Linux to try out.
I semi-regularly distro-hop, but Xubuntu is the distro I keep coming back to between hops to take a break or when one goes (temporarily) dormant. It’s currently running on my primary server/linux machine.
Reasons: 1.) It’s light on resources 2.) It’s very simple and clean. 3.) It works with all the programs I use regularly; only one needs to be hand-compiled (but that one has to be compiled for literally any Linux machine). 4.) I know it. Scrub/partition/install/configure in under an hour. I can pick up any of my projects again immediately where I left off.
Oh gosh, it must have been 1999? 2000ish? I have no idea what distro it was or if distros were even a thing. It took me 3-4 days to get all of my driver’s working. I clunked along with it for a week or two until an update borked the system and I didn’t know how to fix it, so I went back to Windows. I tried many more times over the following decades, usually with similar results. About 6 years ago I really learned a lot more about Unix servers and therefore about Linux itself. So I installed it again and I’ve had it on at least one computer in the house ever since then.
My dad got me a Raspberry Pi for my 10th birthday. I used Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and was amazed by the customizability. Switched my laptop in 2019, never looked back.
I used to use GNOME with minimal plugins (like adding a tea timer or my local ip to the top bar), until they changed the vertical layout. It was a while ago when I was going though some older issues I posted on the GNOME issue tracker and I realized I haven’t used the desktop switching feature since they changed it. They move horizontally now and it just doesn’t work for me on 3 monitors. It’s like the adjacent monitors switch into each other, but they don’t.
Now I use dash to dock. I tried a plugin to reinstate vertical desktops but it’s buggy as hell.
Also, GNOME doesn’t remember window states and positions anymore since the latest version, which annoys the hell out of me. I feel like every new version is equal parts forwards and backwards. Things get better and worse.
One final fuck you to the guy who decided that dead keys and diacritics should be shown while you’re creating them. That’s decades of muscle memory out the window and switching between other os’s just got worse because of it.
Linux was kinda sketchy on the hardware I had available so my first experience was installing NetBSD on an '040 Mac with a stack of floppy disks. I was able to get WindowMaker running at 16bits, 640x480. I was pretty slick, with my ‘transparent’ eterm.
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