Yeah, this is nice. I have been going nuts trying to get this going.

Thanks

Agreed.

Me thinks someone has a secret affection for a certain group of people.

Beat down .

What other good options are there out there?

yeah, the new Plasma is hard to beat. I want to like Gnome… I just see no compelling features, really.

And Krita!

i think Zotero is indeed open source, free software

Right, thank you. I haven’t had my coffee yet. I should have been more clear.

Okay, so I haven’t installed Debian in quite some time, but I think I know what’s happening here.

It’s looking for the CD / DVD “repos” because it may be enabled in your apt sources. You just have to comment out the lines involved with CD and DVD in your /etc/apt/sources.list file I think.

Uh, yeah. Cheers

I am not entirely sure why I thought it was something to do with the filesystem. It’s just weird.

I found that if I put, say, a text file in Documents then log out and back in, those symlinks show up.

Ah well. so long as nothing breaks, it’s not that bad.

Unfortunately, there’s a whole lot more to burn

Took a while to learn and get all set up but now all my stuff uses NixOS.

Says them, I guess. Feels kinda weird to me.

And at this time, our telemetry system won’t be rolled out to any team or business using 1Password.

Uhh, what? If it’s opt-in why does it matter if team or business doesn’t have this? Different standards? To go through such lengths to explain this telemetry stuff to convince people, “Oh, no worries, yo! It’s OPT-IN! Trust us!” feels very dirty to me.

Oh, I get that. They do introduce some bloat. Though, at least for me, I have enough resources to manage it without much concern. I wouldn’t recommend flatpak’s if you want a lean, mean, machine. That’s for sure.

I used arch for a long time and only recently switched over to fedora silverblue. One of the things I missed most was the AUR (and pacman), for sure. However, I discovered something called distrobox. It allows me to install an archlinux container and from there I can use the AUR with no problems. It’s pretty seamless, too. So, if there is something I can’t find something then it’s no problem now.

Though, fedora has pretty much everything anyway. Flatpaks are getting damn good.

Yeah, I have been experimenting with Helix. Configuring it is so much easier than other editors out there. So far, the keybindings haven’t been too hard to manage (coming from vim.) I really like how the cursor works in relation to text editing. I may jump ship at some point.

The only reason I stick with (neo)vim is, well… vim is EVERYWHERE. Remoting into a server never has me confused because vim … is … just … there.

Silverblue is surprisingly good.

For 3D/2D -> Blender

Office stuff: LibreOffice

For programming -> Neovim, Insomnia (for testing out REST api’s and whatnot)

Virtual Machines -> KVM/Qemu (Virtmanager, Boxes, etc) This one was a huge improvement for me

I use VLC for most of my multimedia needs

For game development (related somewhat to 3D/2D) -> Bevy and Godot

Plus a tonne of others I’m leaving out. It’s really a nice feeling.