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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

As others said, the Arch wiki is so well made that it should be the only source you need. Videos will not bring you anything given your background. The main difference with other distros will be the package manager.

A video about the install process will just be someone reading the wiki to you, and a video to "explain" pacman to you will be overkill ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This recent post may be of interest to you: https://lemmy.ml/post/27474047

You may also find some ideas here or there.

I personaly use the power of neomutt and notmuch, but it's not a GUI option if that's what you're looking for.

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

I will not reiterate what others have well explained Re: the use of &, though it's surprising to see someone able to use dwm before getting control of the basics of the command-line :)

Coming back to your issue, have you applied the patch and recompiled dwm? Also, you may want to take a look at the note on this patch's github (which was last updated 13 years ago).

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

There are a lot of software alternatives depending on your needs and preferences. You may want to take a look here or there.

Linux is full of options to let you build the best system for you. That means you'll have to invest some time to decide what you want (starting with the distro). Moving to Linux is discovering a brand new world where it's easy to get discouraged and flooded by the freedom you're given.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

In your efforts of developing a new desktop, I'd suggest to look around for already existing Linux desktops focused on visually impaired users. While they may go beyond what you're suggesting in your post (screen reader, text speech, braille output...) you may still get some inspiration from them.

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

Maybe you can find some inspiration here.

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

You may find what you need here or there.

Like @[email protected] I would personaly recommend the power of neomutt and notmuch, but it's not a GUI option if that's what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Combined with this list, you should be covered :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Note to OP: you don't want to use obsidian, but obsidian.nvim is not related and not dependent on the software with the same name. Obsidian.nvim offers a Zettelkasten approach too.
https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim https://youtu.be/5ht8NYkU9wQ

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

No one's job is to screen PKGBUILD of AUR packages so it's technically not safe to use them. That being said the large community is keeping an eye on these packages and, while problems are not fully preventable, malicious stuff are caught pretty quickly.

So, to contrast with my first statement, one could argue that it's mostly safe to use AUR. That's even more true for packages used by a ton of people because issues/risks will be flagged almost immediately should they ever exist. That's the case for browsers, especially when developers themselves offer an AUR package (like Librewolf: https://librewolf.net/installation/arch/).

Packages from the AUR basically do what is written in the PKGBUILD and install script so that's why everyone will instruct you to learn about that before installing AUR packages with an helper. That's too much for some people though and at the end of the day you also have to trust the person who wrote the source code and which is compiled locally.

Nothing is 100% safe. I personally have 96 AUR packages installed because there's no other packages available (this includes stuff like my windows manager, python tools, 3D slicer, web browser...).

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

Same for me. It's frustrating to not see this one getting more popularity.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello fellows,

I'm currently looking in 13-14" laptops with no immediate needs for one but just because it's exciting. I love my Dell XPS but I feel I should support companies with which I share more common views. I could make the effort to go a with a less attractive look (especially for bezels) but I don't want to go wrong with hardware so what are your thoughts on Framework, Starlab, Purism, and System76? I'll be running Arch and I tend to have a preference for Framework for now.

Do you have feedback (positive and negative) to share on any of these companies?

Thanks for the knowledge you'll bring me. That'll be extremely useful when time comes to go with a new machine.

Update 1: Still wonderful to be part of such a great community. Thanks for all the great feedback (looking for more :) ).
So far everyone is standing behind Framework. Anyone with a less positive experience or who would like to speak for the other companies?

Update 2: Thank you fellows for the time you've spent to share your honest feedback! I didn't want to influence your inputs but you all confirmed the Framework picture I had in mind. It's a piece of mind to read real world experience so thanks again. I was surprised to not see the system76 community speaks louder. Anyway, when time comes I will (virtually) push Framework shop's door.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've been curious about NixOS for quite some time. Reading about it I couldn't see how the config sharing capabilities, setup, or rollabck would be better than Arch and sharing the list of installed packages, using downgrade or chroot.

So I decided to run NixOS in a VM and I'm still confused. An advantage I can see for NixOS is its better use of cores and parallel processing for packages install.

It's clear that I'm missing something so please help me understand what it is.

Edit: Thank you to everyone in this great community! It's always so nice to have a constructive and sane discussion.
After reading so many comments, they all confirm what I've read before and I may realize that my real problem is already having a stable system and no need for the great NixOS options that are very neat but would not benefit my specific and simplistic needs. That being said I can't refrain myself from being curious and will continue testing NixOS.

The need for only 2 config files is the top of the iceberg but hiding more complex configuration to rely on. Not that I really have too much spare time but I do enjoy learning and tweaking NixOS. With its current development state, things are changing a lot so it can keep me busy for months. That's probably what I was mostly looking for: another toy to play with.

Along my journey I will learn a lot about NixOS and may find a feature that will motivate my switch to it. Thanks again for all your precious feedback!

I'll also take this opportunity to share the best help I've found so far to start with NixOS: https://github.com/MatthiasBenaets/nixos-config And his 3 hours (!) video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVXJ-TIv3Y

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