What are you using instead of emacs? I'm very happy with my doom emacs setup and it doesn't feel slow at all imo
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Nano. Everything except nano and its forks is weird and bloat.
Have you tried neovim? More powerful than nano, but still super fast.
I'm not talking about performance but learning curve and unnecessary features. I don't really want to learn any key bindings or a whole new ecosystem just for a text editor I use to edit a config once a month.
Also that comment was sarcastic.
I would like to give a proper try to a tiling window manager. I would like to try QTile, but I haven't gone through the documentation to understand how to customize it properly. Currently, I use GNOME (and actually, I like it a lot). Also, I love TMUX, and the idea of having the same flexibility and keyboard-centric experience on a broader level makes me think that I will love a tiling window manager when I try it. I'm interested in QTile because I know it's configured in Python (which is a programming language I already know), and apparently, it can be used on either X or Wayland. Have you ever tried using it on Wayland? Does it work properly? Besides QTile, what else would you recommend?
I'm a big sway fan - it's the Wayland equivalent for i3
Customisation takes a bit of time (as with all these sorts of things) but it was very stable for me once I had it set up
Seconding Sway. I will admit I prefer autotiling (switching the split for new windows between horizontal/vertical automatically, rather than choosing which split you want), but overall Sway is so good in configuration that I still use it in spite of being a manual. The configuration takes time, but that's common to pretty much any tiler.
Thirding sway, although I use it with gnome. It's a very good first choice for a tiling window
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I want to use COSMIC but its design sucks, I prefer KDE (and on the Rust side: slint).
I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.
I want to use Haruna or many other KDE apps, but GNOME/GTK apps are often better and I dont care.
I want to use Gapless as it is the only music player on Linux that seems to not suck? But it lacks many features.
Its design sucks
Agreed. But I'm SO tired of trying to find and configure a good tiling WM that has rounded corners and isn't impossible to install or created by assholes (it also helps that nice QoL features like easy kb layout switching are included ootb).
Qtile, when scenefx support happens (which will happen when scenefx releases v1.0 aka anytime between this year and the next decade by the looks of things), will be perfect for me but until then, I'm torn between Qtile, Hyprland and COSMIC.
As far as rounded corners and easy to use, I’ve had a tremendous time with swayfx for the past few months, which I switched to from Hyprland.
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Btrfs. I've been using ext4 for so long, I'm afraid that switching up will just annoy me.
Zsh: same reason.
Zsh
FWIW, the excellent ZSH Quickstart kit has been splendid for my transition.
Actually, tutorials like that are a big reason that I don't want to switch. The first steps are things like:
- Install these fonts that only work in a GUI environment
- Install these programs straight from GitHub without your package manager
...and all I hear is: "this stuff isn't ready yet" and "I'm going to be staring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI".
If I can't easily and securely install a shell on every environment I use as I don't want to be constantly context switching, then I'm going to have to stick to Bash.
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I want to use Neovim but I haven't gotten around to really learning it yet.
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Immich
Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying...
The dependencies and wonky updates mean it's not a bad thing to wait but it is good.
The dependencies get drastically easier if you use Docker. Likewise many, but not all of the upgrade issues also get fixed with Docker.
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Elixir, or Gleam/pure Erlang/some other Erlang VM language. I think Erlang is extremely cool and I've enjoyed the little time I spent with Elixir. I also have absolutely no use case to make proper use of it.
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