this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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[–] p0wer 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Relatable. I spend my whole day ricing my linux. I use arch btw

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I once spent half an hour fiddling with the font sizes in Mint. Does that count?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

That is very fast. I count in days.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NixOS, Helix, and Hyprland 😁 But I'm graduated, so I just procrastinate everything else instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sell me on Helix real quick. I've heard about it and it looks interesting but I'm not sure what the hook is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I came from vscode and nano. I wanted something within the terminal as powerful as vscode. I tried doom emacs and vim but they didn't feel right.

Reasons I use it:

  • I found it easier to learn than vim/emacs in my opinion
  • Written in rust
  • Pretty easy to get language servers running
  • config is super easy
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's better than the Dome fossil. #PraiseHelix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I initially read that as "It's better than dome." Which is an objectively solid pitch for anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

One well rounded package that doesn't need a complicated config or possibly unmaintained plugins.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I stopped using emacs because I was spending more time in config files than actually doing anything useful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Look into Helix :D

It’s missing plugins… but aside from that, as of now, it’s about as configurationless as it can get.

I just have some extra keys mapped and that’s it. Single <30 line config file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hot take, micro is the best text editor. Easy keybinds Has plugins

Works very well for editing text

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm have been NixOS curious for quite a while now. I am afraid I will be consumed by it, if I fully commit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Addressing your concerns in order: You should be. You will. It's not up to you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

To anyone who needs this in the future, a lot of scanners need some extra firmware files (found on their backend's subpage, accessible from here) and those can be added to your nix configuration in a way some good people discovered here. Knowing all this would have saved me around 3 hours yesterday, so you're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

another day another game of whack-a-mole commenting out packages just to get a rebuild to not fail

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Kinda like biology: knock out a gene (package) and see what happens.