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.
Estroge- oh, I’m in the Linux community whoops
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 use Estrogen as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Estrogen is just the kernel. You use GNU+Estrogen!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Estrogen, but it’s not GNU+Estrogen.
The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If Testosterone was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long.”
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.
Is your gender POSIX-compliant?
No, no - legit! Do go on.
I have my Estrogen tablets sitting on a shelf waiting for me to finish with fertility preservation
Immich
Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying…
The dependencies and wonky updates mean it’s not a bad thing to wait but it is good.
The dependencies get drastically easier if you use Docker. Likewise many, but not all of the upgrade issues also get fixed with Docker.
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.
Firefox is really pretty customizable, more than most other browsers.
I’ve been using this theme: https://github.com/Naezr/ShyFox
https://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.
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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!
Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can’t blame everything on snap!
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Been rocking Manjaro with Gnome for a long time, but then Plasma 6 came out, I switched over and couldn’t be happier.
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Ah, gotcha. May there be more stability in your future soon!
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.
I feel that so hard. Open source/personal projects seem just a little out of reach with my current mental bandwidth.
There are a lot of “I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it” social things like Matrix 😑
Wayland, but I’m patiently waiting for xfce to support it
A fine day that will be!
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
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
ldapsearchcommand uses the LDIF format, which is hard to parse reliably. Producing nushell data structures that don’t need fragile parsing would be a boon.
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.
Try Alpine Linux edge
I discovered that the default de want gnome actually. World don’t now.
Through I had no idea that the rpi5 required some stuff that is not yet merged into the kernel, and only raspbian works as a result, because they ship s custom one.
Alpine Linux has no default DE, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. It’s up to the user to install a DE.
DNS ad blocker. My network setup is more complex than I can understand and if I set up AdGuard/PiHole I have issues.
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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.
Have you tried zed? Written in rust, has many extensions. I gave it a try, I quite like it. It’s blazing fast. But I haven’t tried on an old machine.
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…
I’ve been using Niri with
Xwayland-satellitelately, and it works as a charm. it works out of the box, and you simply run it in background, and launch your X programs withDISPLAY=:0curious to check that out, going to be testing wine wayland driver on niri as well
Bazzite. I had it working well for a while but a bad update broke it to the point where I can’t login with Gnome anymore and I’ve stopped trying to make it work. I should be able to revert to the last good snapshot with grub, but I’m a little tired of tinkering, workarounds, and incomplete docs. I like the premise, but I think I need a fresh start with a new distro.
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. ;_;
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.
