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This. This. A thousand times this. I hate Windows / MacOS but love their desktops. I love Linux / BSD but hate their desktops. So my most expensive most powerfu
by jart 1y ago
This. This. A thousand times this. I hate Windows / MacOS but love their desktops. I love Linux / BSD but hate their desktops. So my most expensive most powerful workstation is always a headless Linux machine that I ssh into from a Windows or MacOS toy computer. Unfortunately most developers do not understand this. Every time I run a command in the terminal and it tries to open a browser tab without printing the URL, it makes me want to scream and shout and retire from tech forever to be a plumber.
- tux1968 1y agoYou can replace the xdg-open command (or whichever command is used on your linux system) with your own. Just program it to fire over the url to a waiting socket on your windows box, and have it automatically open there. The details are pretty easy to work out, and the result will be seamless.
- mbreese 1y agoI usually do this with a port forward (ip or Unix socket) over SSH. This way my server just sends data to ~/.tunnel/socket, and my SSH connection handles getting it to my client. (It’s a bit more complicated with starting a listening server in my laptop, making sure the port forwarded file doesn’t exist, etc, but this is the basic idea.)
- hyperbolablabla 1y agoHey Justine! Thank you for all your fantastic work
- jart 1y agoThanks!
- amelius 1y agoI can recommend to spend a day finding and configuring a window manager that suits your needs.
- graemep 1y agoThis was my thought. Given the huge range of desktop environments and window managers available there has to be one that suits you. Probably one that suits you pretty much out of the box.
- Eisenstein 1y agoI doubt that she spent the time to create a cross platform C compiler library but didn't bother trying out a few Linux desktops.
- amelius 1y agoI doubt that there is no wm that suits their needs.
- VladCuciureanu 1y agoOr just display the URL in terminal. I spent 5 years of my life ricing my Linux machine to get it as I want it to be only to realise that, at least for my needs and likes, nothing matches MacOS’s DE, compositor and font rendering. Not a bash on Linux desktop users, just my experience.
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