sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm newly retired, and I wanna go all in. Starting place?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, just install it? Since you’re a Mac person, it’ll probably be easier to install on a non-Mac device, so pick up something and just install a popular distro. Pick something mainstream that looks nice to you, and go for it.

  I recommend Linux Mint or Fedora. They’re both easy to install, have large communities, and largely do what you want out of the box.

  After that, learn whatever strikes your fancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qt || ^Qt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also kind of nasty with software that was designed for a mouse, which is pretty much everything.

  I get 90% of the benefits of a tiling WM with KDE/GNOME shortcuts and tmux, and avoid pretty much all of the downsides. It’s not quite as nice for dev vs my old XMonad setup, but it’s way nicer for random GUI software (looking at you, GIMP and Steam).

  My kids honestly haven’t really used Windows or macOS, they’ve mostly used my Linux computers (both currently run Plasma 6) and ChromeOS at school. Even my 4yo can launch and run Minecraft on my computer, and there’s no way they’d be able to grok a keyboard without knowing the alphabet first. The mouse is fantastic for lowering the barrier to using a computer, it’s just not as effective as a keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qt || ^Qt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use KDE Plasma, but I honestly prefer GNOME. The main reason I use KDE is because it doesn’t break stuff all that often, whereas GNOME keeps breaking my extensions.

  I honestly don’t care about the DE, and I would use a tiling wm if it worked properly with Wayland and was easy enough for my kids to learn. I just need it to launch apps and stay out of the way. Both largely handle that, though I need an extension to auto hide the top bar in GNOME (or maybe it was a GNOME Tweak Tool thing), and I’ve had that break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endeavouros alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any system can match those, once it’s configured and you keep it simple.

  1. Any notifications can be disabled
  2. Use a simple DE like Xfce, or a WM; also, turn off unnecessary services
  3. Again, if you don’t install much, there’s less to cause conflicts
  4. Should work with any distro

  I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Here’s how it aligns with what you’re looking for:

  1. Notifications depends on the DE you choose; disable the automatic SW update checker and notifications will be minimal
  2. Pretty much any DE/WM is supported, pick a low mem one
  3. zypper dup every week or two and you’re good; make an alias if you’re lazy; if something breaks (very rare), boot into the old image and run snapper rollback and try updating again in a few days
  4. I haven’t used OBS, but you probably need pakman repos for codecs; I doubt it’s more effort than opi codecs

  Debian stable could also be a good pick, and it’s what I generally recommend. Just use FlatPak for most software and the older system packages shouldn’t be an issue. It may take more work to get OBS setup though, I haven’t tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free software pioneer Stallman reveals cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a weird dude, but nobody should have to go through cancer treatment. I hope he lives many more years after treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software you used to enjoy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  XMonad

  I really liked my setup, but some programs sucked to use with it (GIMP comes to mind). It was the tiling WM that I stuck with the longest (also tried i3 and AwesomeWM).

  Maybe I’ll find Sway a shot now that I have an AMD GPU so Wayland should work properly. If anyone has any recommendations for Wayland tiling compositors, let me know, I see there are several now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software you used to enjoy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was more petty, I bailed when they moved my window buttons to the left (Ubuntu 10.04 I think?) because I saw the writing on the wall for further unwanted changes. And sure enough, they moved to Unity as their DE, which I couldn’t stand.