poinck

poinck , 7 months ago to memes in Meow.

Thank you, I needed that (:

poinck , 7 months ago to programmerhumor in Every Time

I work 36 hours, so Friday is only until lunch. So far, it was always possible to start the weekend directly after the lunch break. (:

poinck , 7 months ago to linux in 10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023

Indeed, but what has this to do with my recommendation? ^^

It clearly depends on what the new wants to get in to. Gentoo is a smart way to learn a lot while installing it. I mean it; this is no joke!

poinck , 7 months ago to linux in 10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023

I never used a spin-off of a unique distribution of GNU/Linux on my own computer, except the dark Ubuntu times. It seemed right at the time.

Now, I don’t see why I should recommend a distro that tries to be easier on new users when the original has sane defaults and is closer to upstream regarding all the tools and software bundled with it.

Here are my recommendations for new users in that order (regardless of their computer knowledge): Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Slackware, LFS. Friends can help with the installation and should consider easy maintainability when dealing with users who just want to use it.

My personal preferences are Gentoo and Debian.

poinck , 7 months ago to linux in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

I have made very good experience with Steam installed from flatpak. Only my loved browser “qutebrowser” seems to be abandoned in the flathub-repo. It takes so much time to compile it on Gentoo, so flatpak is a very good fallback for programs with painful compile times.

poinck , 8 months ago to memes in 30's wheel of pain

Yes, Pilates is great! Still need to find a new course for after work (old one is not campatible with my work hours anymore), but at least 34 km on 3 to 4 days by bike is my current workout. Don’t do home office unless you use the time saved for something like Pilates, jogging or other recommandations from above.

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in What is your favourite floating window manager?

This was a fun one! Now, I use Gnome, after I discontinued my own fork of catwm called ocelot (but this was a tiling wm based on dwm, anyway).

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards

Thx, I’ll try that

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards

Annoyingly so, how can one disable it?

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

No, I don’t. I saw it on Flathub; will install it from there.

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

I think, I should switch to Codium for personal projects. Let’s hope there is a binary package on Gentoo.

poinck , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in Questions that arise in my head at four in the morning

I could only make the switch to my custom layout on the Planck, because the small size of the keyboard makes it possible to use it everywhere.

I have 4 of them with identical layout. (: I cannot type on regular keyboards anymore. ^^

Maybe the Ergodox is for you: ergodox-ez.com

poinck , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in Questions that arise in my head at four in the morning

I am using a Planck 40% mech keyboard I consider high-end (as in personal endgame) and my base layout is euro/iso, but I have a custom layer for programming related signs like the $-sign. This way I have a better experience than I would have with a US-layout.

Programmers using mainly US-layout is a false assumption. I have only 2 out of 10 colleagues using it.

poinck , 8 months ago to linux in What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

I wish gnome-builder had a better vim-mode, I would use it more often over VSCode.

poinck , 8 months ago to memes in On culinary crimes

But it needs to be an American cheese cake with pinapple, not that stuff we have here in Europe.