This is a woefully underpowered laptop I got for free! I'm working to make it into a secure portable machine (since it does support secureboot & TPM-backed disk encryption) to take on the go that I don't fear losing. This is mostly for doing programming & study, on stuff that doesn't require high-performances, so the 2 gigs of RAM are just about enough for regular use -- and it prevents me from being distracted, as I can't load most website on that poor thing…
I'm using 2 bars -- I originally only wanted to use a vertical one, unfortunately not all waybar modules support rotation, so I settled for this, which works quite well in my experience :3
Stuff I use:
- Catppuccin Frappe as a color scheme on most things
- Emacs for programming & taking notes (org-mode my beloved)
- Alacritty as a terminal, with the fish shell
- Firefox (fuck chromium)
- stmps as a music player, connected to my selfhosted Nextcloud instance, with a bunch of songs obtained through legal means (obviously)
- Waybar for a bar, with nm-applet for controlling networkmanager and blueman-applet for controlling bluetooth
- fcitx5 + mozc for japanese input
- dwl with the following patches
- ipc
- toplevel management
- touchscreen
- autostart
I will probably release all my configs in an organized way once I feel like this setup is closer to completion.
well, the point of flatpak is to have bundled dependencies so they run predictably no matter the distro
if one of your software's dependency gets updated, and your software isn't, you may run into issues - like a function from the library you're using getting removed, or its behaviour changing slightly. and some distros may also apply patches to some of their library that breaks stuff too!
often, with complex libraries, even when you check the version number, you may have behavioural differences between distros depending on the compile flags used (i.e. some features being disabled, etc.)
so, while in theory portable builds work, for them to be practical, they most often are statically linked (all the dependencies get built into the executable - no relying on system libraries). and that comes with a huge size penalty, even when compared to flatpaks, as those do have some shared dependencies between flatpaks! you can for example request to depend on a specific version of the
freedesktop SDK, which will provide you with a bunch of standard linux tools, and that'll only get installed once for every package you have that uses it