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callyral

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favorite bands · Lemon Demon; Tally Hall.

favorite artists · cavetown; Neil Cicierega; Bo Burnham; Jack Stauber; Will Wood; Toby Fox.

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Retweets are like parentheses in math

callyral,
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Retweets are like parentheses in math

^sorry if this shows up as a double comment, i’m not sure why it wasn’t posting my comment^

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crossing the street beside, but not on, a sidewalk

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uBlock Origin + default Firefox tracker blocker on ‘Strict’

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Here’s my distrohopping journey (including non-Linux OS)

  • Windows 7 →
  • Windows 10 →

Mid 2021, I tried Fedora Linux in a VM and was unable to install it, but I liked it regardless.

So, a while later I decided to try this “Linux” thing on my computer.

  • Linux Mint (late 2021) →
  • Arco Linux (arch felt too intimidating) →
  • Debian (stability = good?) →
  • Debian Sid (stability = boring) →
  • Artix Linux OpenRC (omg i hate systemd so much!1!!) →
  • Void Linux →
  • Artix Linux runit (it didn’t work) →
  • Arch Linux (how do i use systemctl wtf) →
  • Void Linux again (ah, ln -s /etc/sv/something /run/service/)→
  • NixOS unstable (since January 2024)

Honestly, I’m just glad I found something I liked, as NixOS is perfect for tinkering.

During all that distrohopping, I “DE-hopped” even more. Currently I run SwayFX, but I’ve used Cinnamon, XFCE, Plasma, GNOME, AwesomeWM, i3, bspwm, dwm, swaywm and Hyprland.

edit 1: add Artix Linux runit

edit 2: remove NixOS stable from the list

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I though only GNOME cared about having client-side decorations? Probably why any GNOME app I have has an annoying toolbar when I’m using a tiling window manager.

callyral,
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how is that fragmentation it’d be a front-end not a whole new software

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I use NixOS, and I’m confused. Why is a fork of Nix necessary? I’m out of the loop.

edit: currently looking at lix.systems and aux.computer for info.

So… should I just switch to Lix? Like are there any problems I should expect?

edit 2: i tried switching to it, but got an infinite recursion error in my flake.nix, and honestly i don’t feel like dealing with it right now.

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Unfortunately, my dotfiles aren’t public

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bug repellent, my beloved

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It depends on what kind of game you like. Here are 2 video games I play on Linux:

  • Minecraft is a sandbox game with a survival aspect, where you can be as creative as you want while still having fun challenges. There are many different playing styles. It costs about $30 and requires a Microsoft account to play legally. Minecraft: Java Edition officially runs on Linux. Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (the one with console cross-play) does not run on Linux by any official methods.
  • Mindustry is a techy/industrial game, I’ve heard some say it’s like if Factorio was a tower defense. It is free and open-source (under GPLv3), requires no account.

For purchasing or acquiring games, I’d recommend Steam. It has lots of games and many of them work on Linux. There’s also Heroic Games Launcher for Epic and GOG games.

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Yeah, I think I might also switch from Hyprland to something like SwayFX or Plasma 6 (with Polonium for tiling, I heard it’s gotten better).

edit: welp, the background is black, system settings crashes and i have searched and searched for what this issue could be but i’m too lazy to make an actual support ticket so i’m complaining on lemmy instead.

thankfully i made a separate git branch in my config for plasma, i’ll use hyprland until i figure out how to get plasma to work properly. then i’ll configure it, if i don’t like plasma i might go back to swayfx as i said previously in my comment.

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Burn a live Linux system onto a USB (can be one with just a terminal, like Arch Linux). If you don’t have another computer to plug the USB into, this can be done on an Android phone using EtchDroid.

Then, boot from that USB and mount your main filesystem. Inside of the Live system, chroot into the mounted filesystem and run sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg which should fix the bootloader.

After that, you can just exit the USB system and return back to your OS which should boot now.

(If you don’t know how to mount a filesystem or chroot, I would explain but I forgot how to do it. If someone else could explain that would be neat)

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Linux Mint in late 2021. Now, in 2024, I am on NixOS.

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how is that going through the floor

edit: i commented this and immediately realised the poster thing was actually small and near rather than big and far away.

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Edit that represents what I kind of thought was happening in OP’s image

kind of like this but since there was no indication of a reflection i was very confused

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A fish, unless I’m underwater instead of it being on land

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I doubt a.out executable format is supported anymore, but that at least used to be an option

is that why when i compile c programs the default name is a.out?

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I used Void Linux for a while, but now I am staying on NixOS. It’s got great features that I’ll probably miss on other distros.

callyral,
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i made two issues and a small pull request once, haven’t donated money to any foss yet but i should and i will when possible.

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idk, i’ve heard that ranger works in alacritty with image previews, so this could too.

callyral,
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I can’t read some text on there, you should make the image have a background since, at least my browser (firefox) seems to default to white for PNGs

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Apparently my love language is installing @linux on the laptops of people I really care about.

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They both use the ActivityPub protocol, this means that Lemmy and Mastodon can communicate with each other.

callyral,
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i basically sleep like this

Gumball Watterson (cartoon character) sleeping in a very weird position.

callyral,
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idk it’s weird to have ^C, ^M and other control characters and have one be ctrl+shift+c and the other be control+m

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as a racist femboy gamer,

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Meanwhile, here are my Garfield requirements:

  1. is an orange cat
  2. is funny
  3. is part of a comic strip called “Garfield”
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i think the .tar.gz extension is more common than .tgz

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did you buy it in the gnu year?

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The documentation. It needs more of it.

the distroIt’s NixOS, the docs could be better, had a lot of confusion and had to watch a lot of tutorials when getting started, when I should’ve been able to just read the documentation instead.

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That’s not grammar, it’s choice of words.

callyral,
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*it’s a googol thing

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musl is not a programming language

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the sun pisses light at the earth

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...

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it’s nice to see more gecko/firefox-based browsers

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animations aren’t really important for me

I don’t think SwayFX has animations yet, it’s on the roadmap but for now it’s window blur, rounded corners, etc.

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i can carry 225 grams very easily

callyral,
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could you link to the issue

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“install flatpak”

why would someone do that in NixOS? nix has a lot of packages and using flatpaks imperatively would lead to less reproducibility

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Any recommendations for a rolling-release immutable distro? Or does that not matter?

I haven’t distrohopped in a while and I just might after hearing about Fedora Sericea (Immutable Fedora with swaywm). I just need to understand this whole immutable thing more, because I kind of get the idea but I don’t understand basic things like how to install packages, for example.

Also, any way to install packages in an environment and not have it create config files in your home directory, but instead in a temporary directory? Like when you wanna test software but have to clean stuff up later, it’s annoying

"Must Try" distros and DEs?

Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

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i don’t think lemmy markdown supports tables, though it should

edit: lemmy uses commonmark which doesn’t appear to support tables

callyral,
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nushell is a new type of shell that has some really cool features

lf is a file manager inspired by ranger

dash a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh that is fast and simple

eza is a modern alternative to ls

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