What's that one feature you liked so much while distrohopping that you want it by default in all distros?
I have always been discovering new things about Linux distros while distro hopping. And when I get something I really like, I just copy the package name and make sure I install it in every distro I use in the future.
Let me start:
1. Clipboard manager (Gpaste)
2. KDE connect
Let me start:
1. Clipboard manager (Gpaste)
2. KDE connect
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in reply to Jerald • • •1. It allows you to add (effectively) tab pages to your shell, and split each page into multiple windows. Yes your terminal can likely do this, but this is running inside your shell, so it works the same way if you’re logged in locally or running over SSH.
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in reply to Normal Mode • • •You can also have a bunch of tmux sessions running in a single tmux server, and switch between them with a couple of keystrokes.
Once you start using tmux (or screen) it’s very hard to imagine going back to life without it!
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in reply to Jerald • • •My next want would be having the ability to make your system declarative (at least, the initial config) in a fashion that NixOS and Guix do.
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
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in reply to eshep • • •sudo pacman -S package_name
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in reply to russjr08 • • •I haven't yet done it, but Arch is so reliable I'm tempted to create a daily
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cron job (or, more precisely, a systemd timer job, because I'm only yet running Artix on a couple of systems). The only thing that gives me pause are the kernel updates, which are frequency and necessitate system reboots.Those kernel updates really make me wish Linus had focused on a microkernel architecture.
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in reply to Secunergy 🐧 • • •It uses incremental snapshots, so they won't take up infinite space...
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in reply to Jerald • • •- Your configuration is written in code, it is therefore persistent. Do you know that annoying feeling of "oh shit, how did I configure x program that I want to install on this other machine"? Never again.
- You can wipe your machine and recover your config in no time. I have 3 machines working with the same config except for small variations. If I change the command to take a screenshot it changes in all of them. If I change my firefox bookmarks it is persisted accross them too. Its awesome.
- NixOS generates revisions of your config automatically. Ifyou change something and it breaks you can always use a previous version of your system that you know works to fix it.
- The Nix package repository is the largest (by far) in all the linux ecosystem. And, even if a package you want is missing, adding
... show more- Your configuration is written in code, it is therefore persistent. Do you know that annoying feeling of "oh shit, how did I configure x program that I want to install on this other machine"? Never again.
- You can wipe your machine and recover your config in no time. I have 3 machines working with the same config except for small variations. If I change the command to take a screenshot it changes in all of them. If I change my firefox bookmarks it is persisted accross them too. Its awesome.
- NixOS generates revisions of your config automatically. Ifyou change something and it breaks you can always use a previous version of your system that you know works to fix it.
- The Nix package repository is the largest (by far) in all the linux ecosystem. And, even if a package you want is missing, adding it yourself is not that hard.
I am probably missing other nice things, but those are awesome already.It's true that the learning curve it a bit steeper than usual, but there is no distro quite like it and even for non coders you can get a lot out of it.
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in reply to lhotze • • •This is sick! thank you!
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in reply to lhotze • • •One question I'd ask you is how much upfront work it is to get, say, a stable setup for a laptop where all of the little things are working (opening/closing the lid, connecting to external screen, switching audio outputs, media keys. Laptop stuff!)
As context, a long time ago I ran Gentoo and later Arch, so I'm not technically clueless, but eventually decided to switch to easier distros that came with a reasonable system defaults that works out of the box. I'm super interested in NixOS for all the reasons you mentioned, but worried about how time I'll end up spending just getting that config file to where I want it!
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in reply to dotCaffe • • •NixOS as a distribution is pretty easy to get running, if you are familiar with the desktop environment that you install in your system getting it setup is much much simpler than doing so in other distros like Arch, since it usually consists of adding a line like
desktopEnvironment.gnome.enable = true
to your config and the system takes care of almost everything. I even think that gnome gets installed by default on the first run.dotCaffe
in reply to lhotze • • •I'm going to keep tinkering in a VM though, and maybe I'll have a breakthrough. Keeping configs working across two computers especially is tempting (read: an excuse to get a second computer).
One last question - one of the things I worked on was Firefox with home manager. How did you get it set up so bookmarks were included in the config?
lhotze
in reply to dotCaffe • • •bookmarks
. You can set them there:You can always look at the home manager reference, I usually look here.
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in reply to lhotze • • •Laser
in reply to Tiuku • • •Does Guix have an equivalent to flakes or does it even need one? I never looked closer into the design.
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in reply to Jerald • • •For KDE Connect, there's a headless program called mconnect with no Qt (or KDE) dependencies. I use it with the KDE Connect Android app, and it works well. All of the commands on the Linux end are CLI, and many of the functions are supported.
Edit: link to source
GitHub - bboozzoo/mconnect: mconnect - KDE Connect protocol implementation in Vala/C
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in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 • • •Are you talking about a situation where it's not possible to install those Qt or KDE dependencies (then it might be useful to me)
Thank you for your output either way!
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in reply to Jerald • • •MXLinux's Conky manager... havent got it to run normally again.
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