The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

TyroneCoalburn said:
Does anybody use tiling window managers here, since everyone talks about lxqt, xfeces, KDE but not bspwm or dwm, the patrician's choice?
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Yeah man! i3 in particular was getting a lot of love a couple pages back. Tiling window managers are great!

I've been meaning to finish setting up my own i3 on KDE. I'll get around to it sometime this weekend, maybe. (Okay, I've been procrastinating. It's been the first time I've had a fast, working KDE Plasma setup on a computer in a long time, and I wasn't expecting Plasma to be so damn clean.)
 
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Yotsubaaa said:
Yeah man! i3 in particular was getting a lot of love a couple pages back. Tiling window managers are great!

I've been meaning to finish setting up my own i3 on KDE. I'll get around to it sometime this weekend, maybe. (Okay, I've been procrastinating. It's been the first time I've had a fast, working KDE Plasma setup on a computer in a long time, and I wasn't expecting Plasma to be so damn clean.)
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Plasma is a massive improvement over the old KDE. If you enjoy all of the KDE/QT tools it's a nice desktop environment. Most of the tools I use are command line so I stick with i3 (i3-gaps specifically).
 
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He Who Points And Laughs said:
Plasma is a massive improvement over the old KDE. If you enjoy all of the KDE/QT tools it's a nice desktop environment. Most of the tools I use are command line so I stick with i3 (i3-gaps specifically).
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It's even a massive improvement over where it was 2-3 years ago. It seems like I used to see that old Plasma crash dialog with the ladybug every single time I tried to do anything at all goddammit:
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Lately, I haven't seen this guy once yet! (Knock on wood!)

Still miss proper tiling though, so i3 is definitely coming! I was just pleasantly surprised by how productive I could still be in Plasma now, is all.
 
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TyroneCoalburn said:
Does anybody use tiling window managers here, since everyone talks about lxqt, xfeces, KDE but not bspwm or dwm, the patrician's choice?
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dwm gang reporting in. The idea that suckless programs are difficult and require knowledge of C is way overblown, but I think they like it that way.
I don't have a sweet screenshot like above, and it would be a hassle setting up the patches to make dwm look that way, but I mostly stopped caring about looks around the time I went from i3 to dwm.

TBH I want to move towards "emacs is my WM" from using spacemacs, but every time I try to configure something I get incredibly confused, and I think it's missing some important features like a PDF reader and a modern browser.
 
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Slaundromat said:
TBH I want to move towards "emacs is my WM" from using spacemacs, but every time I try to configure something I get incredibly confused, and I think it's missing some important features like a PDF reader and a modern browser.
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Check out EXWM. It's pretty impressive. Firefox and your favourite pdf reader will run seamlessly as children of Emacs as a window manager.
 
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I've grown fairly attached to using Linux Mint recently, but a new SSD means a chance to change distro, so recommendations sought - what good reasons are there for kicking off the training wheels and ditching what i know?

For reference I've also previously used Slackware (presumably it's less objectively worse now?), Debian which was fine apart from it shitting the bed with regards to nvidia drivers after every dist-upgrade and Ubuntu which was fine but also was before Canonical's IP policy went all Redmond.
 
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Twitter Hate Mob said:
I've grown fairly attached to using Linux Mint recently, but a new SSD means a chance to change distro, so recommendations sought - what good reasons are there for kicking off the training wheels and ditching what i know?

For reference I've also previously used Slackware (presumably it's less objectively worse now?), Debian which was fine apart from it shitting the bed with regards to nvidia drivers after every dist-upgrade and Ubuntu which was fine but also was before Canonical's IP policy went all Redmond.
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Arch Linux has always had the best package management out of all the distros I have used, I had some issues with the base group in the past, but they fixed that.

I'm not currently using it on my laptop, because I somehow borked my install, but if I ever want to change my distro in the future, I'll chose Arch.
 
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In my last three distros I went from lubuntu > Arch (2 years) > Linux Mint (last 2 years). I'm tempted to switch back to Arch but I feel like I'll waste my time tinkering with various configs. I always felt compelled to try and tweak things a little more and could never be content with the current setup I had going. With Mint, I just turn it on and use it. I'm lazy these days when it comes to OS stuff and would rather spend time on other hobbies that are more fulfilling.

I know I'm not the only one who has felt that way about Arch because I was discussing it with a friend a while back. He mentioned it's like a siren's call. We all know how those end up.
 
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Twitter Hate Mob said:
I've grown fairly attached to using Linux Mint recently, but a new SSD means a chance to change distro, so recommendations sought - what good reasons are there for kicking off the training wheels and ditching what i know?

For reference I've also previously used Slackware (presumably it's less objectively worse now?), Debian which was fine apart from it shitting the bed with regards to nvidia drivers after every dist-upgrade and Ubuntu which was fine but also was before Canonical's IP policy went all Redmond.
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If installing Arch is a bit too OCD, you can try out Manjaro. At its heart it is Arch, but it is designed in a way where anyone can install it easily.
 
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Twitter Hate Mob said:
I've grown fairly attached to using Linux Mint recently, but a new SSD means a chance to change distro, so recommendations sought - what good reasons are there for kicking off the training wheels and ditching what i know?
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Thirding Manjaro. And for reasons, how about because it's (nearly/already) 2020, baby! What better way to start the new decade?

greengrilledcheese said:
In my last three distros I went from lubuntu > Arch (2 years) > Linux Mint (last 2 years). I'm tempted to switch back to Arch but I feel like I'll waste my time tinkering with various configs. I always felt compelled to try and tweak things a little more and could never be content with the current setup I had going. With Mint, I just turn it on and use it. I'm lazy these days when it comes to OS stuff and would rather spend time on other hobbies that are more fulfilling.
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I'm sort of the same way. However I recently jumped back to Arch, and I was actually pleasantly surprised by how well everything worked once I'd set it up this time. Sure, the install took some configuring/tweaking and all that, but as I was reinstalling the programs I use for work it really struck me how easy it was this time around. An example would be the Keras/TensorFlow libraries. It was the cleanest installation ever on Arch: literally a couple calls to pacman and it was done—and working! Every other OS I've had to install it on so far (Windows, Mac OSX, Debian, Ubuntu) had me waste hours messing around trying to get it set up and fixing errors, and that was even when I was virtualenv'ing the whole thing.
 
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Yotsubaaa said:
However I recently jumped back to Arch, and I was actually pleasantly surprised by how well everything worked once I'd set it up this time. Sure, the install took some configuring/tweaking and all that, but as I was reinstalling the programs I use for work it really struck me how easy it was this time around. An example would be the Keras/TensorFlow libraries. It was the cleanest installation ever on Arch: literally a couple calls to pacman and it was done—and working! Every other OS I've had to install it on so far (Windows, Mac OSX, Debian, Ubuntu) had me waste hours messing around trying to get it set up and fixing errors, and that was even when I was virtualenv'ing the whole thing.
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Everything is just easier in Arch (aside from the install). My editor of choice for large scripts is Atom (small scripts is the domain of the lovely nano). While on Kali the install is a bit involved, on Arch pacman took care of it with ease.

If something isn't in the main repos, just google aur + program name and git clone, makepkg -si. Elegance.

The name Arch Linux is fitting.
 
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