4 ms·

What timing!! I am so tired of ubuntu derivatives... Call me crazy, but too many things are getting in the way of me just using Linux. I went back to Gentoo on

What timing!! I am so tired of ubuntu derivatives... Call me crazy, but too many things are getting in the way of me just using Linux. I went back to Gentoo on most of my boxes, but was actually feeling like Slack not two weeks ago, only to see it still on 14. A bit dated. Now I can check it out again! Get slack!

klyrs 5y ago
Nearly all of my complaints about Ubuntu evaporated when I switched over to using i3wm. There's still a couple of weird annoyances, but I'll gripe about anything I use.
- markstos 5y ago
  Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.
  - klyrs 5y ago
    Okay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?
    - markstos 5y ago
      I was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... As long as I was getting started with a new environment I wanted to make a forward-looking choice. Due to Wayland, Sway does have smoother window resizing with less jank. One detail I liked about Sway at the time is that it supposed an "include" file directive, allowing you to break up your config file. i3wm has recently adopted that feature from Sway: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...
MisterTea 5y ago
I had Linux Mint drive me to nearly throw my computer out of the window before I realized there were two different network configuration UI programs fighting each other. One accessed from the Cinnamon system tray and the one in the configuration menu. One was set to dhcp and the other static and the static setting was overriding the dhcp setting. Complete WTF moment. Now I just use Void Linux Musl with XFCE and install bloated programs like LibreOffice or Steam via flatpack.

klyrs 5y ago

Nearly all of my complaints about Ubuntu evaporated when I switched over to using i3wm. There's still a couple of weird annoyances, but I'll gripe about anything I use.

markstos 5y ago
Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.
- klyrs 5y ago
  Okay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?
  - markstos 5y ago
    I was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... As long as I was getting started with a new environment I wanted to make a forward-looking choice. Due to Wayland, Sway does have smoother window resizing with less jank. One detail I liked about Sway at the time is that it supposed an "include" file directive, allowing you to break up your config file. i3wm has recently adopted that feature from Sway: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...

MisterTea 5y ago

I had Linux Mint drive me to nearly throw my computer out of the window before I realized there were two different network configuration UI programs fighting each other. One accessed from the Cinnamon system tray and the one in the configuration menu. One was set to dhcp and the other static and the static setting was overriding the dhcp setting. Complete WTF moment. Now I just use Void Linux Musl with XFCE and install bloated programs like LibreOffice or Steam via flatpack.