The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Belisarius Cawl said:
The one thing that slightly annoys me about ranger is that I can't get it to recognize .pdf.xz extensions. All my archived PDFs are compressed to save a little extra space. For now I have to enter r then atril. (Atril handles decompression on its own.)
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If you want batteries included. But better than ranger. Yazi is what I recommend. Lf is also faster, and more stable than ranger. But it definitely takes more setup, and knowledge to use.

Yazi is pretty easy. And it has a plugin system, where you can install them with a plugin package manager it comes with. Then just follow the readme on the plugin to make changes needed to enable them. But even without plugins it basically just works. I do think smart-enter and the one that lets you make the preview window full screen with a keybind are really nice though.

Edit: seeing the context of why you plan to use a thin file manager.

My recommendation is get comfortable with doing file management on the cli. If you are good at that, you really don't need a file manager at all. And the only real convenience they bring is having an interactive visual representation of the the file system. You can sometimes be more efficient without one. But that's going to depend on knowledge.

Trans Fat 41g said:
Kitty always felt slower to me than every other Terminal Emulator I have used, even compared to Xfce4-Terminal. I know there's a flag/option that's supposed to fix that but it wasn't consistent at all.
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Test it. Run time on some long command that will have a consistent result and give a lot of output.

Something like time ls -r / (or time sudo ls -r because you will probably get permission errors) it might be capital r for the recursive flag.

You can do that and run it in a few terminals. Probably a good idea to do it more than once. Because the first time might be slower no matter what, because the second will have some things in memory, or some kind of caching helping. With speed.

I've tested a few. Really most of the decent ones give pretty similar results.
 
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Aidan said:
I've never cared that much about which terminal emulator I use and never understood why people do.
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Multiplexers and heavy reliance on terminal commands for system maintenance or are usually way. It doesn't really matter if you are on a gui centric set up. I used to use tmux a lot, but I switched to Wezterm because it has a multiplexer builtin. It's very useful for running multiple things in a single terminal. I'm on IRC a lot, and having the ability to listen to music, edit files, and torrent stuff in the same terminal is nice.
 
Ferryman said:
Yep, GPT. Might be a weird quirk with how rufus flashes the image? All my installation media has been created with dd in linux.
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Appreciate it. I gave up on Artix and ended up using systemd-boot instead of grub because it seemed easier to get secure boot working. Just finished installing Windows and I can move between the two without going into the bios. I just need to figure out the using a key file for decryption and then putting Windows in the systems boot entries.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
Multiplexers and heavy reliance on terminal commands for system maintenance or are usually way. It doesn't really matter if you are on a gui centric set up. I used to use tmux a lot, but I switched to Wezterm because it has a multiplexer builtin. It's very useful for running multiple things in a single terminal. I'm on IRC a lot, and having the ability to listen to music, edit files, and torrent stuff in the same terminal is nice.
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Other than file editing, I don't do any of what you said in the terminal and tmux works for me so that's probably all it is.
 
ghastlyretard said:
Appreciate it. I gave up on Artix and ended up using systemd-boot instead of grub because it seemed easier to get secure boot working. Just finished installing Windows and I can move between the two without going into the bios. I just need to figure out the using a key file for decryption and then putting Windows in the systems boot entries.
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Completely understandable. As much as I hate systemd, sometimes it just works. On that note, since I need a systemd system for work, I decided to try Omarchy, and as far as config/skin packs go, it's pretty good. First time trying Wayland/Hyprland and I'm pleasantly surprised. Excellent OOTB, and easily one of the most intuitive and easily configurable Arch flavors out there. Took me about an hour or so to tweak it for personal preference, but other than that, really good config. Do beware it ships with some custom scripts and a tweaked Chromium browser, but you can really easily trim it down without breaking anything.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
Just to counterbalance the Luke Smithian white nationalists in this thread, I've been a desktop Linux user since 2001 and I love wayland, I use Gnome, and I've fully embraced systemd.
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perfect example of stockholm syndrome. I've bet you have never used a different distro in years and just convinced yourself that this is just what Linux is like.
 
I don't use multiplexers that much as I found this fancy system called "X Windows" which lets me put 2 OR MORE terminal emulators on the screen at the same time. Sure, when you only had the one terminal then they were very handy. Mostly now just use tmux or screen to persist stuff and detach when needed.

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Screen was very handy on these, for instance.
 
DavidS877 said:
I don't use multiplexers that much as I found this fancy system called "X Windows" which lets me put 2 OR MORE terminal emulators on the screen at the same time. Sure, when you only had the one terminal then they were very handy. Mostly now just use tmux or screen to persist stuff and detach when needed.

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Screen was very handy on these, for instance.
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No, don't forget: two or more instances of xterm, AND xload, AND xclock!
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You can even have a pair of googly eyes that follow your cursor! What an age we live in!
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Aidan said:
This sounds like spyware.
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You know what's a spyware? Applications trying to put their windows on top when opening, like if you click "open file location" in your browser after downloading a file. Or starting GUI process through the terminal. In wayland you need a protocol just to negotiate being put forward on activation...

For reference: link1 link2 link-to-protocol
 
DavidS877 said:
Look at Mr. Fancy here with an X Server that supports the XShape extension.
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First deployed as a fancy feature of OPENLOOK in 1992, and a standardized part of core X11 with X11R6.3 just 27 years ago in 1999. Maybe in 2046 the last Wayland tranny will finally make Wayland stable, and will be able to start on 'nice to haves' before killing itself.
 
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