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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.

acockworkorange ,

Having my TrueNAS scale homeserver host some pihole, VPN and *arr. I’ve fallen behind the times.

secret300 ,

oooo. niri is a good one. I’ve had it installed on my fedora system for… Hell I don’t even know how long but I just haven’t been using it. I’ve really been wanting to use NixOS for a while but haven’t had the motivation/determination to sit down and learn it.

KrispeeIguana ,
@KrispeeIguana@lemmy.ml avatar

I kinda wanna try Gentoo just for the experience, but as someone who already uses Arch, I’m worried it will take up more of my time than my current setup already does.

bonegakrejg ,

There are a lot of “I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it” social things like Matrix 😑

zeekaran ,

DNS ad blocker. My network setup is more complex than I can understand and if I set up AdGuard/PiHole I have issues.

ResoluteCatnap ,

Pihole let’s you set up groups so you can always exempt certain devices from blocking if that’s the issue. Otherwise you just need to go to your router and change the dns server to your pihole ip

rozodru ,
@rozodru@lemmy.ca avatar

a decent tiler. I’m on plasma 6 so best I can do right now is polonium. it’s fine but I feel like I could be doing better. unfortunately I can’t find anything else that works.

chanteoma ,

I would like to give a proper try to a tiling window manager. I would like to try QTile, but I haven’t gone through the documentation to understand how to customize it properly. Currently, I use GNOME (and actually, I like it a lot). Also, I love TMUX, and the idea of having the same flexibility and keyboard-centric experience on a broader level makes me think that I will love a tiling window manager when I try it. I’m interested in QTile because I know it’s configured in Python (which is a programming language I already know), and apparently, it can be used on either X or Wayland. Have you ever tried using it on Wayland? Does it work properly? Besides QTile, what else would you recommend?

xor ,

I’m a big sway fan - it’s the Wayland equivalent for i3

Customisation takes a bit of time (as with all these sorts of things) but it was very stable for me once I had it set up

skai ,

Seconding Sway. I will admit I prefer autotiling (switching the split for new windows between horizontal/vertical automatically, rather than choosing which split you want), but overall Sway is so good in configuration that I still use it in spite of being a manual. The configuration takes time, but that’s common to pretty much any tiler.

greywolf0x1 ,

Thirding sway, although I use it with gnome. It’s a very good first choice for a tiling window

chanteoma ,

Thanks! You’ve all convinced me to try Sway. As soon as I have time to dive into the configuration, I’ll give it a shot!

gramgan OP ,

Fourthing sway, specifically swayfx and (as someone already mentioned) autotiling, both of which are available in the Nix repository without hassle.

communist ,
@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

I love arch, but i’m planning on moving to atomic fedora eventually, but I use a bunch of niche things because i’m an early adopter, plus installing hyprland isn’t easy right now

i’ll switch to fedora atomic when pwvucontrol, tofi, hyprland, hyprland-autoname-workspaces, citrix workspace (work necessary), notiflut-land, bato, wljoywake, wayland-pipewire-idle-inhibit, ananicy-cpp, easyeffects, wl-mirror, gtk3-classic, keyd, iwgtk, qtalarm, kvantum and subliminal are all available, haven’t checked which are yet

couple of those (pwvucontrol and notiflut-land) aren’t even in the AUR yet so it’ll be a while.

Anarchistcowboy ,

Nginx. I’m going to learn soon but I’m still new and it seems easy to screw up exposing things to the Internet.

QuizzaciousOtter ,

If you have to learn from scratch anyway I would consider caddy and traefik. I think those might be a bit more modern and user-friendly than nginx.

monovergent ,

Wayland, but I’m patiently waiting for xfce to support it

gramgan OP ,

A fine day that will be!

unn ,

Wayland here as well, but I don’t see compositors having xmonad functionality that I need

PureTryOut ,
@PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social avatar

Immutable distro. I love the concept but don’t want to move away from Alpine Linux…

averyminya ,

Use a LiveBoot one, then you don’t have to!

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

any distro other than ubuntu but i’m lazy after ive been doing that shit all day at work

russjr08 ,

For what its worth, I know that while a lot of the hardcore Linux community seems to absolutely despise Ubuntu/Canonical because of snaps and whatnot, I don’t think there is anything actually wrong with using Ubuntu if that is what works for you. Use the best tool for the job!

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

ive been feeling stability issues with it on the last cycles, pretty gnarly issue on gnome and they still havent pushed the point release that fixes it, been wanting a change but i need the machine for work, so i dont want to fuck around with it.

russjr08 ,

Ah, gotcha. May there be more stability in your future soon!

ruse8145 ,

Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can’t blame everything on snap!

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

touche. i like gnome a lot, but i wanted to try plasma 6 on another distro

derpgon ,

Been rocking Manjaro with Gnome for a long time, but then Plasma 6 came out, I switched over and couldn’t be happier.

russjr08 ,

Fair enough!

LeFantome ,

Well, Ubuntu does not force you to use GNOME and GNOME is not exclusive to Ubuntu.

So, what you are basically saying is that you use Ubuntu and hate GNOME.

laranis ,

I’ve always wanted to contribute to an open source project but by the time I get done with the grind of the work day I don’t have the mental energy to effectively work a second job competently.

glitches_brew ,

I feel that so hard. Open source/personal projects seem just a little out of reach with my current mental bandwidth.

Vinnyboiler ,
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There are several things I was doing in X-Org that I really don’t have the capacity to figure out in Wayland. One of them was customizing touch pad shortcuts, I used to like having 3 figure swipe commands that worked like keyboard shortcuts. The other was my KVM programs like Barrier seems unable to work in Wayland.

I hope for simple solutions to these problems in the future.

ruse8145 ,

I think the new Wayland fork will fix that

MerchantsOfMisery ,

Virtual reality, but an old friend of mine has kindly offered to buy me an Oculus Quest 2 so I’m very much looking forward to what VR can offer.

russjr08 ,

One of my closest friends also did the same thing for me, I quite enjoy playing beat saber :)

averyminya ,

I highly recommend Pistol Whip!

someoneFromInternet ,

i3w - I want to try it, but thinking, that if I’ll use other programs requiring mouse it will all be for nothing

cizra ,
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i3, or Sway if you’re on Wayland, just gets out of your way.

Have a virtual desktop for each use case, memorize where your apps are, and enjoy muscle-memory-based window management. Mod4+1 brings me to terminal, 2 is browser, 3 is work stuff, 4 is personal chat, 5 is email… Every app is fullscreen, for maximum screen real estate. Nothing annoys by blinking when I’m trying to concentrate on something else.

Nibodhika ,

That’s not true at all. I used to have pain in my wrist and went very heavily into keyboard centric usage. At the time I used AwesomeWM and Conkeror for a full keyboard centric OS, I also learned to touch type in Colemak at this time and bought a trackball. Eventually I started using PyCharm instead of Emacs, and Conkeror was abandoned so I switched back to Firefox, I switched to i3 for their better philosophy on monitors and workspaces, and switched back to a mouse for better aiming on games, and now I have lots of stuff that use mouse, but the pain never came back. And the reason is that while it is true that I still use the mouse, it’s much less than I did before, the vast majority of the time I can be programming, run something in a terminal, go to the browser and do a quick search, send a message to someone on slack and go back to my code without touching the mouse. Sure, if the result of what I was looking for is not on the front page I’ll need the mouse to click a link, and if the person on slack is not the one I was last talking I’ll need the mouse to click his name, but those are two possible mouse movements for a full workflow of stuff that would have needed 6 or more mouse movements before.

someoneFromInternet ,

what if I’m using dvorak, did you change your configuration for your layout?

Nibodhika ,

I had to write my shortcuts for i3, so I didn’t changed them, I just wrote what made sense, e.g. super+f for full-screen. Most of them are the “default” ones that the example configuration uses, but that’s because they’re sane defaults.

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