Probably somebody can provide a better answer, but for me tmux is useful due that it has session manager (really useful if your remote connection drops) and the ability to split the screen in multiple screens (usually I split vertical, but you can create easily 4x4 screen).
The only trick is the learning curve of the actions (usually ctrl + b and the key required). For example to split the window vertical, you must do ctrl + b and then %.
But as I said, probably you will get better and more technical answers ^_^U
The irony is that once you find your way around through the default keys and search a little you soon discover how easy it is to reset them with “sane” settings. Same for window frames, etc. But yes, there’s definitely a learning curve.
I’m a /home on separate drive/partition kind of guy. I like it just following my installs. Though seeing some using guix/nixos to create a config for my desktop has got me wanting to spend a weekend trying that out.
The rest, ansible for any sufficiently complex enough setup at the moment. Good for integration work with LDAP, etc if your using that. Again may play around with guix on that front.
I was just thinking yesterday when looking at how NixOS works. The config file seems to be quite reminiscent of an Ansible Playbook. I mean maybe I’m way off the mark, I haven’t really dug into Nix much yet.
Guix/nix seem very powerful. The reproducibility is something ansible just isn’t built to same level robustness for, which makes them seem very promising to me.
I’ve been using chezmoi for dotfile management and have been really happy with it. You can directly import existing files to get started and template out any differences between systems.
Only one thing: never give up. You’ll get things fixed by copy and paste until one day youll have a broken system and think wait I actually know how to fix this because I’ve been through it five times before.
Who needs time shift when you can just slowly break your system while trying to fix a bug and then just either reinstall the os or switch to a different distro bc might as well
It is indeed, I tried to go straight WM (i3) but I’m not used to it so I installed xfce which I’m familiar with (I’m also using it on my server running Lubuntu).
I can’t confirm that (I distro hopped to NixOS) I can confirm that Arch is a solid distro worth learning and will give you the skills to manage it long-term. Compared to Arch based distros like Manjaro, EndeavorOS and Garuda where people tend to screw up their install easily when installing the wrong packages from the AUR and updating with dependency conflicts.
I tried manjaro, it was a total mess after a few days of setting it up. Decided to just nuke it and go with arch and I’ve never looked back. Been 5 years now :)
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