Yes, I replicated some features of fish in zsh because I liked some parts of fish but I didn’t like the different syntax (not that I’m too familiar with the shell, just familiar enough to get annoyed sometimes when using fish).

I use zsh and it’s fine, I use it with starship, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions

It’s SDL 2.6.5.79.79, which uses the a.b.c.x.x version numbering scheme where you increment the numbers whenever you feel like it. The x is repeated for security and redundancy.

That joke is kinda plane, it made me yaw.

I had already converted my home manager configuration into normal config files and was using Home Manager just to manage symlinks.

I was using Nix for system configuration but that doesn’t mean that I forgot how to set up a Linux system by more conventional methods (it’s like learning how to ride a bike). While I do like the declarative aspect, doing everything in one language didn’t appeal anymore after over a year of using NixOS…

Also, I wanted a package manager that told me what packages would be updated, and which let me search packages from the command line easily… Nix didn’t provide that and it was annoying me.

I do miss flake.nix or shell.nix files and Nix shells though. But XBPS (Void’s package manager) has its fair share of cool things as well and seems easier to understand, which is a bonus.

Here is my distrohopping journey: Mint -> Arco -> Debian -> KDE Neon -> Artix -> Void -> NixOS -> Fedora -> Void

slow to lauch things it installed permissions finicky non-integration with host system’s things

It’s a great way to install apps without cluttering ~/.config, ~/.local/share, etc, since each app has its own directory in ~/.var/app (unless it has write permissions somewhere else in which case it might use that), and I don’t care as much about managing configuration files of specific GUI apps. I run Librewolf as a Flatpak and it launches quickly, also.

I use it to reduce bloat, because I can install an app to try it and not have to worry about cleaning it up later. Also my system uses only 1.1GiB of RAM without any apps open which is fine since I have a lot running in the background (Niri, Waybar, terminal server, XDG portals, etc.)

Only GUI apps I specifically don’t use it for are Steam - because I heard bad things about Steam running as a Flatpak - and KeePassXC - because it’s the one Flatpak app I couldn’t make the system theme work for no matter what I did, so I used the one in the repos.

For the system settings, yeah it doesn’t integrate at all if you don’t configure it. I just used Flatseal (a convenient Flatpak configuration GUI) to set environment variables for all Flatpak apps, and gsettings to set themes, and now it works for most apps, except KeePassXC specifically for some reason. Understandable take on system settings.

Main reason I use it though, is that compared to my previous distro (NixOS), Void Linux’s repos don’t have nearly as many packages.

I use xbps and Flatpak

AI images are often not labeled regardless of whether they’re trying to mimic real life or mimic art. Someone who knowingly posts AI images is lying to you about who made the image, it’s specially worse when they’re unlabeled

A piece of art and an AI-generated image are two very different things that can often look the same, because that’s what generative AI is made for: mimicking what humans make, a computer lying about its identity as a computer, and pretending to be human. Every AI image is a lie.

I fear GNOME doesn’t have support for running with other compositors, but I could be wrong, couldn’t find anything about it online.

From what I’ve searched, a good alternative is PaperWM, a GNOME shell extension that provides tiling and scrolling features similar to Niri.

…you may also be interested in trying Niri with Noctalia Shell, though I don’t know if it’s easy to setup, or how similar it is to GNOME’s UI, since I just use Waybar.

i did use awesome many months, maybe a year or two ago, but nowadays i’m a niri person

I use niri btw

Is that MacOS or GoboLinux

Edit: I see macports which sounds like a MacOS thing, and Macs as a concept are somewhat related to Linux as they’re both Unix-like.

nuh uh, i already won something and can’t recall what it was

I will look at the source code later, but your comment is very ominous

The structure is defined by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 3.0, which could be implemented differently depending on the distro. /bin is usually a symlink pointing to /usr/bin.

See also (if you’re curious) two distros that purposefully don’t follow the FHS for one reason or another: GoboLinux and NixOS (there are probably others)

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Click on one of the “Get it on …” buttons, you probably want the F-Droid one, but if you have one of the other app stores you can use the other buttons.

I use IronFox, not sure how much it depends on Firefox though.

This is why you hover over links before clicking on them… I recognize it…

glad i recently bought an SSD. it was expensive, and it will be more expensive in the future, damn :(