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

rutrum , 22 hours ago

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.

ulkesh , 14 hours ago

A billion dollars?

delirious_owl , 10 hours ago

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

ulkesh , 2 hours ago

It’s a wish, why would I settle?

kolorafa , 20 hours ago

Immich

Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying…

Elkenders , 20 hours ago

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

FrederikNJS , 17 hours ago

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

chameleon , 22 hours ago

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.

mikyopii , 23 hours ago

Ceph. I have some Raspberry Pi’s that I’m going to set up a cluster with. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I half expect the performance to be relatively terrible, but maybe it won’t and I can try to build something on top of the cluster in a sort of hyper converged setup.

It’s completely overkill for a small home lab but that’s what makes it fun.

savvywolf , 15 hours ago

I think a lot of the recent AI tools could be fun as toys to play around with, but I’m just very uncomfortable using tech that exploits everyone who doesn’t own a huge megacorp.

Also, emacs as a replacement for my graphical editor. It feels like there isn’t a “neovim” style modern version, and there’s a steep learning curve to configuring it.

Also, Wayland. Come on, Cinnamon. ;_;

dragonfly4933 , 15 hours ago

If you want something similar to vim or neovim, but without all the fuss learning how to configure it and install plugins and such, you could try helix.

PlexSheep , 2 hours ago

Any modern DE in my fucking Raspberry Pi 5. I tried going Debian testing, broken packages. I tried installing other OSes, fedora didn’t even boot, Ubuntu broke in installation and now won’t let me log in.

Gnome in Debian stable feels too old and I can’t get the screen keyboard working and disable the dann screen reader. I just want a box to put on my tv.

snekmuffin , 12 hours ago

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

mactan , 39 minutes ago

curious to check that out, going to be testing wine wayland driver on niri as well

Petter1 , 17 hours ago

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

tuna , 19 hours ago

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 , 18 hours ago

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.

undrwater , 20 hours ago

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 , 20 hours ago

Grab the Live Captions flatpak

undrwater , 20 hours ago

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

fruitycoder , 10 hours ago

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 …).

Fedop , 58 minutes ago

I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I’ve moved and don’t have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.

communism , 14 hours ago

UKI. I’m still using grub because I know how to use it. I will definitely make the switch one day when I have an afternoon free or something.

Brickardo , 19 hours ago

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…

soulfirethewolf , 20 hours ago

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 , 19 hours ago

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

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

savvywolf , 15 hours ago

github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

This is the one I’m using, if anyone needs another suggestion. I also have some local modifications to remove the minimum tab size. I don’t have a hoarding problem.