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Petter1 ,

To be honest: my PC 🫢I just do not have enough free energy time

pingveno ,

Lapce, an IDE written in Rust. It’s nice and light compared to most IDE’s, so I use it a bit on my aging laptop from 2015. However, it doesn’t have the extension ecosystem or polish of my favored IDE, VS Code.

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

There a few things I’ve wanted to try for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it.

AstroJS (I’ve tried it, but only half-arsed)… It’s cool, but the lack of native react support scares me…

Cosmic DE… Still waiting for the alpha.

Python. It’s a good language, I’ve spent some time learning it, I’m just failing to find a use case for it atm.

Textual (Python framework). It’s really cool, but OOP scares me.

tuna ,

fish. I think it has most things i want out of the box, so it should be simpler and snappier than my zsh setup. it’s just that zsh hasnt bothered me enough to try it yet.

also nushell, im interested in the idea of manipulating structured data instead of unstructured text

pingveno ,

Just take the dive into fish. It used to have a lot of problems with incompatibilities, but that’s been less of a problem lately.

I haven’t found nushell to be that great as a day-to-day shell simply because it integrates poorly with other Linux commands. But when it comes to data manipulation, it is simply amazing. I’m currently (slowly) working on a plugin to query LDAP. The ldapsearch command uses the LDIF format, which is hard to parse reliably. Producing nushell data structures that don’t need fragile parsing would be a boon.

apotheotic ,

Estroge- oh, I’m in the Linux community whoops

4am ,

No, no - legit! Do go on.

fern ,

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Estrogen, is in fact, GNU/Estrogen, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Estrogen. Estrogen is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Estrogen, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Estrogen, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Estrogen is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Estrogen is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Estrogen added, or GNU/Estrogen. All the so-called Estrogen distributions are really distributions of GNU/Estrogen!

Brickardo ,

the lack of XWayland support scares me

I’ve been using niri lately and couldn’t believe so many apps wouldn’t launch. I didn’t know that was the issue. I had been manually editing so many desktop entries to make them work…

kolorafa ,

Immich

Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying…

Elkenders ,

The dependencies and wonky updates mean it’s not a bad thing to wait but it is good.

FrederikNJS ,

The dependencies get drastically easier if you use Docker. Likewise many, but not all of the upgrade issues also get fixed with Docker.

soulfirethewolf ,

Mainly Firefox. It has quite a good extensions engine, but the overall UX just still isn’t there compared to other browsers. I really don’t care about all the ethical or moral reasons people try to come up with for using it, I just want a browser that has a lot of good functionality in comparison with Edge or Vivaldi.

And while I am aware of some of the forks like Floorp and Librewolf, I find the latter to be too hardened, and the former to be behind compared to upstream.

moonlight ,

Firefox is really pretty customizable, more than most other browsers.

I've been using this theme:
https://github.com/Naezr/ShyFox

undrwater ,

LLM speech-to-text.

It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.

Still very cool!

rotopenguin ,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

Grab the Live Captions flatpak

undrwater ,

Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I’ll give it a try.

saltesc ,

Python. Been wanting to learn it for years but all mental capacity I have toward such stuff is drained by work. The whole situation is ironic.

rotopenguin ,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

Look at “The Farmer Was Replaced”

finestnothing ,

What are you using instead of emacs? I’m very happy with my doom emacs setup and it doesn’t feel slow at all imo

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Nano. Everything except nano and its forks is weird and bloat.

moonlight ,

Have you tried neovim? More powerful than nano, but still super fast.

GolfNovemberUniform , (edited )
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m not talking about performance but learning curve and unnecessary features. I don’t really want to learn any key bindings or a whole new ecosystem just for a text editor I use to edit a config once a month.

Also that comment was sarcastic.

chameleon ,
@chameleon@fedia.io avatar

Elixir, or Gleam/pure Erlang/some other Erlang VM language. I think Erlang is extremely cool and I've enjoyed the little time I spent with Elixir. I also have absolutely no use case to make proper use of it.

danielquinn ,
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca avatar

Btrfs. I’ve been using ext4 for so long, I’m afraid that switching up will just annoy me.

Zsh: same reason.

cizra ,

BtrFS has Stuff.

  • Subvolumes, which enable you to share the same /home between Linux distros
  • Snapshots that are an great for
    • freezing the FS during off-machine backups: create a snapshot, rsync the snapshot not the main FS, drop the snapshot
    • transient backups. Will executing this thing hose my system? If no, drop the snapshot.
  • ability to pool different disks into a single FS
  • and so much more.

Fun story: once I needed to do something (resize? can’t recall) a partition that happened to be in use. The solution involved smbmounting a network disk, losetup helping transform that thing into a virtual disk, then migrating the root FS there, recreating partitions, all while running the rootfs on that thing. Thus, pooling can bu useful.

By the way, what does Zsh have over bash that you find useful?

danielquinn ,
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca avatar

Honestly, the only btrfs feature that interests me is the snapshotting, as the current state of my backups is rather sub-par. There’s just a lot of inertia involved in adopting it when ext4 Just Works™. Maybe next time I install a new system I’ll give it a shot.

As for zsh, I rather like the general “intelligence” I see on others’ machines: the way it autocorrects typos, draws a navigable menu for tab completions complete with colour highlighting… it looks lovely. I’ve been a Bash user for 25 years though, and muscle memory like smashing the tab key to get what I want is a hard habit to break.

FrederikNJS ,

Not OP , but regarding zsh, it has much better auto completion, and suggestion support. Additionally you can theme your prompt much more, see for example powerlevel10k

GenderNeutralBro ,

Perhaps you are a more discerning filesystem user than I am, but I don’t think I’ve actually noticed any difference on btrfs except that I can use snapshots and deduplication.

bsergay ,

Zsh

FWIW, the excellent ZSH Quickstart kit has been splendid for my transition.

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

docker I guess, I still don’t know how it works, create them, etc

kionite231 ,

You don’t have to know how it works in order to use it. I don’t know either but I could host services using docker. trust me it’s way easier than it seems.

warmaster ,

Same here. Even easier if you use an app to manage it for you like dockge, portainer, Cosmos, etc.

rutrum ,
@rutrum@lm.paradisus.day avatar

Niri looks really cool. I’ve used tiling WM before but scrolling is a unique take, perhaps more productive for some folks?

Nushell is a good one. I do data science for a living and it’d be nice to have the shell handle some small data transformations instead of writing a script in python. But all the syntax and behavior is very different than bash, so I’ve been afraid to start because of the learning curve.

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