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I'm a cli junkie but I've gone from using very minimal tiling WMs to vanilla Gnome. So I've stopped using bitlbee for example, but bitlbee is something I'd use

I'm a cli junkie but I've gone from using very minimal tiling WMs to vanilla Gnome. So I've stopped using bitlbee for example, but bitlbee is something I'd use a lot in the days of 100% terminal. It's an IRC proxy for other protocols like Skype or Slack. I have no idea how it stands up today but I always liked the concept of having one service that handled conversion of all the modern protocols to text based. Other than that I think people have already given amazing recommendations so I have nothing to add.

lunchables 8y ago
Curious what made you leave tiling WMs? I think about switching back occasionally, but still use dwm. I also used to use bitlbee, but once AIM died I dropped it. Slack dropped their irc gateway a while ago. I recommend wee-slack[1] which is a weechat[2] python plugin that uses the Slack API instead of the old IRC gateway, which also means it is a lot more feature rich than the IRC gateway was. 1 - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack 2 - https://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/
- INTPenis 8y ago
  My focus has always been on being able to work without issue. Without OS locking up or without tools malfunctioning. Used to have laptops with 256MB RAM for example, or 1024x768 pixel resolution. So I'd do anything to cram as much as possible into a tiny screen using as little resources as possible. Now my laptop has 8G of RAM and an i7 CPU at 2.5GHz and 4 virtual cores. On top of that Linux and Gnome have made a lot of advances so it runs like a dream and I can work without having ~100 lines of configuration in my WM. More seamlessly go from my own to someone elses computer without forgetting that caps lock is my Meta key. It all pretty much resembles Windows and Mac OS more. I just don't see any purpose with torturing myself using a minimal resource desktop environment when I don't have to. The main program is still gnome-terminal and tmux, I still do a majority of my work there. Habitually use cli for as much as possible, even simple operations that I could do in the Gnome file browser. But I do it all with a vanilla Gnome configuration and I still don't miss a thing.

lunchables 8y ago

Curious what made you leave tiling WMs? I think about switching back occasionally, but still use dwm. I also used to use bitlbee, but once AIM died I dropped it. Slack dropped their irc gateway a while ago. I recommend wee-slack[1] which is a weechat[2] python plugin that uses the Slack API instead of the old IRC gateway, which also means it is a lot more feature rich than the IRC gateway was. 1 - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack 2 - https://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/

INTPenis 8y ago
My focus has always been on being able to work without issue. Without OS locking up or without tools malfunctioning. Used to have laptops with 256MB RAM for example, or 1024x768 pixel resolution. So I'd do anything to cram as much as possible into a tiny screen using as little resources as possible. Now my laptop has 8G of RAM and an i7 CPU at 2.5GHz and 4 virtual cores. On top of that Linux and Gnome have made a lot of advances so it runs like a dream and I can work without having ~100 lines of configuration in my WM. More seamlessly go from my own to someone elses computer without forgetting that caps lock is my Meta key. It all pretty much resembles Windows and Mac OS more. I just don't see any purpose with torturing myself using a minimal resource desktop environment when I don't have to. The main program is still gnome-terminal and tmux, I still do a majority of my work there. Habitually use cli for as much as possible, even simple operations that I could do in the Gnome file browser. But I do it all with a vanilla Gnome configuration and I still don't miss a thing.