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What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?

For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

MonkderVierte ,

My TV. *arr stilll not set up and the gaming rig is still in its planning phase.

Tywele ,

I want to use Neovim but I haven’t gotten around to really learning it yet.

cizra ,

NeoVim is almost a drop-in replacement for Vim (the configuration file is under .config). Plugin installation might be different, tho.

Find a migration guide and be brave.

iiGxC ,

I used neovim but recently switched to helix and highly recommend it. If you haven’t tried nvim yet, give helix a try before deciding. A good way to compare is do the tutorial of each and see which you like more nvim +Tutor and hx --tutor (orhelix --tutor).

If you’re a current vim user the helix keybindings are only a small learning curve after the tutorial, and feel a lot smoother imo

narc0tic_bird ,

I love Helix. I like that it pretty much works out of the box and the only thing you have to do is install language servers and in some cases configure them, but that’s (mostly) well documented. No need to install plugins or use a preset “distribution” like with NeoVim. I also like the built-in keyboard shortcut hints, for example when you press g (goto) it shows you what key will do what.

The way Helix does “select first, then act” is subjective, but I like it.

iiGxC ,

Agree on all counts. I didn’t like finding and comparing plugins for neovim, and then wrestling with environment stuff to get them to work, and having to change a bunch of options to get nvim to work how I want. With helix, my config of things I’ve changed from default is very small, and there’s no wrestling with plugins.

And yeah, “select then act” feels a lot smoother and more intuitive to me. If you like that and like plugins tho, check out kakuone

jbrains ,

This is the reason I liked kakoune right away after I started using it: select, then act, and every movement is also a selection.

Sunny ,

Could you elaborate on what helix is?

iiGxC ,

A keyboard and terminal based text editor, similar in some ways to neovim, vim, and vi

jimitsoni18 ,

I’ve used helix for a few months and liked a few default keybindings. Didn’t like the reversed sequences (movement then action) so switched back to neovim and configured helix like bindings for some actions.

dinckelman ,

The learning curve is absolutely colossal, especially if you want to use it as a full IDE. Even with the legend panel it still doesn’t tell you have the story

morbidcactus ,

That’s me as well, I’ve used vim for simple edits over the years but more and more just used nano for most of my terminal based edits. Finally ran vimtutor (mainly because I wasn’t aware of it) and wow, I should have done that years ago.

jimitsoni18 , (edited )

Same, niri. Want to move away from hyprland for so long. Also Emacs but I don’t want to spend months configuring.

Also a foss android distro, but I can’t find one for this phone.

there are also lots of other things like common lisp, Redox OS, cosmic desktop, trying to make my own compositor, rope science, activity pub, webtransport, bevy, ecs, and much more.

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.

danielquinn , (edited )
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca avatar

Actually, tutorials like that are a big reason that I don’t want to switch. The first steps are things like:

  • Install these fonts that only work in a GUI environment
  • Install these programs straight from GitHub without your package manager

…and all I hear is: “this stuff isn’t ready yet” and “I’m going to be staring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI”.

If I can’t easily and securely install a shell on every environment I use as I don’t want to be constantly context switching, then I’m going to have to stick to Bash.

crater2150 ,

…and all I hear is: “this stuff isn’t ready yet” and “I’m going to be starring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI”.

This really isn’t a zsh problem, but a “people putting too much stuff in a ‘getting started’ config”.

I used zsh for 15 years before looking at any plug-in manager, you can get a lot of the good stuff like the completion by just going through the first-run wizard included in zsh. A lot of stuff is included directly with zsh, including various prompt themes (which is what that tutorial wants extra fonts for, because they use a fancy prompt with custom glyphs; I don’t think any of the built-in ones need that)

Things like fuzzy history search with fzf is usually included with fzf’s distro package and the additional zsh-completions package for less used or newer commands is also packaged by most distros. In my experience, a lot of the other plugins are stuff that could be a standalone script instead of a plug-in anyway.

danielquinn ,
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca avatar

Well that’s much more encouraging. I may just give it a try if the first run wizard is simple enough. Thanks!

theshatterstone54 , (edited )

Also I stopped Using Emacs… because it’s very slow

I’ve been using a mix of Emacs and Neovim and plan to switch completely to Neovim when I have replicated enough of my Emacs config to be comfortable in Neovim. And speed is the main reason why.

Also, qutebrowser. I want to use it but it lacks workspaces support and as a self proclaimed tab hoarder I need my workspaces. I’m also still looking into a pasword manager for it (though I can always just use Bitwarden as an app)

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

NixOS

cizra ,

Nix flakes, me.

leastprivilege ,

I just started yesterday in a VM. It’s no stress and you can easily put your configuration on metal after. Pretty fun stuff.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I have my garuda installation just where and how i want it to be. NixOS just always seemed very interesting, but i don’t want to run it on my daily machine.

gramgan OP ,

The most satisfying part of the NixOS process is deploying to bare metal and watching it work exactly as you intend it to

theshatterstone54 ,

Agreed, but I found getting NixOS the way I want it, to be super overwhelming, and documentation simply sucks. I’ve been thinking of forking ZaneyOS (Link: gitlab.com/Zaney/zaneyos) and basing my NixOS config on it. Otherwise, it’s just too much.

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

I want to use COSMIC but its design sucks, I prefer KDE (and on the Rust side: slint).

I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.

I want to use Haruna or many other KDE apps, but GNOME/GTK apps are often better and I dont care.

I want to use Gapless as it is the only music player on Linux that seems to not suck? But it lacks many features.

davidgro ,

I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.

Watch the list actually get longer over time.

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/127071

Including a bit of ranting

pingveno ,

Does COSMIC’s design suck or is it in pre-alpha?

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

No that is the design they want. If something is ready, then their design.

theshatterstone54 ,

Its design sucks

Agreed. But I’m SO tired of trying to find and configure a good tiling WM that has rounded corners and isn’t impossible to install or created by assholes (it also helps that nice QoL features like easy kb layout switching are included ootb).

Qtile, when scenefx support happens (which will happen when scenefx releases v1.0 aka anytime between this year and the next decade by the looks of things), will be perfect for me but until then, I’m torn between Qtile, Hyprland and COSMIC.

livingcoder ,

Neovim. I tried to use it a year ago, but I felt like I was fighting it every time I just wanted to make progress on my project. VSCode doesn’t get in my way. I’m going to give it another shot in a few years.

Goun ,

Haven’t used neovim, but I had to try vim way too many times. I can’t use anything else now.

theshatterstone54 ,

Try kickstart.nvim. I was skeptical until I tried it. It’s a very good starting point for Neovim. Pretty much eberything else I’ve ever tried is either too bloated, too complicated, too outdated, too overwhelming, or a mix of the above. Link: github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim

randint ,
@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

I want to learn stenography, but haven’t really got to buying a keyboard designed for it. I also want to host an EteSync server, but the HTTPS thing has been a bit of a headache for me and I’ve mostly just left it sitting there.

lemmyvore ,

There are alternatives if you want to host your calendar and contacts and sync them securely. You could use Radicale and put a reverse proxy in front of it (Nginx Proxy Manager makes it easy to set up and easy to get and renew certificates).

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.

IronKrill ,

You don’t have to… if the project you want to use has a good setup process. Otherwise you’ll be scouring Docker docs, GitHub issues, and StackOverflow for years.

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Doker, how they work?

fruitycoder ,

SimulaVR or any Linux VR desktop experience.

I want to lean back and be immersed on the desktop so bad, but only if it is worth the cost (e.g. not trading ever detail of house in ewal time to Facebook …).

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

A billion dollars?

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Do people even wish for a million dollars anymore? Shit doesn’t even buy a home in most cities.

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!

I_am_10_squirrels ,

Is your gender POSIX-compliant?

CyberSyndicalist ,
@CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net avatar

executive function

snekmuffin ,

I’ve been using Niri with Xwayland-satellite lately, and it works as a charm. it works out of the box, and you simply run it in background, and launch your X programs with DISPLAY=:0

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