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What are people daily driving these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Damn... that looks like a lot of work. Did you write your own theme?

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

Oh my, yes. The benefit is that one you figure it out it's super easy to create widgets. I wrote from 0 or adapted my own widgets for apt, Spotify, notes, timer, weather alerts... Basic plugins (like system monitor, battery, volume) you can just find online but when you need something custom is real easy. For example I wanted something to alert me when my pihole is down. 30 minutes of scripting and it's in my tray.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Intruiging 🤔 There are something things like that which I've wanted to write for years!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Give it a try. Lua is easy and the api has good documentation. There's plenty of good widgets to use as examples. And if you have any questions just ask.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've based my theme on sometimes I found but yes, I heavily adapted it. Theming is simple, awesome is flexible but not very pretty. It's more about usbility. Easily define rules for specific windows, powerful keybindings and so one. For example my config defects if I'm using external monitor or not and changes the widgets accordingly. It's just one if in the config. I don't think it's possible at all in gnome.