Once worked for a software company where we could run Linux on our machines if we maintained them ourselves and wouldn’t ask admins for support since they were only supporting the default windows installations. Right before Christmas new coworker joined, early twenties, got into a project that was apparently hard to get it set up locally, we told him get the project running and then spend time to configure your laptop the way you like it to be. Low and behold, he spends Christmas setting up and configuring some fancy desktop environment on Kubuntu, returns to work, shows off the fancy looks and within a week fails to get the project set up and everyone else in the project was using windows. So one week later he was back using windows and super pissed that he wasted like 5 days configuring his desktop. My heart is still bleeding for that poor guy :(
That’s why I’m sticking to Windows at work even though I hate it. I couldn’t stand the glares of the others when I fail to fix even a noob distro.
A lot of people did this at that company as well. But mainly my point was that it might be better to first get productive, or verify you can be productive with the OS you installed before you waste tons of hours configuring it in some obscure ways.
Especially since it was usually the ones straight outta university who did the fancy configuration, tons of alias, custom theming and so on stuff while most senior Devs using Linux just used default Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever installations. Something that just worked.
I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”
Now I kinda want to do that.
I’m pretty sure Emacs can do that
I’m pretty sure Emacs has a video player somewhere in there.
I’m pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.
Here you go. Grab your soldering iron.
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/16/foot-pedal-ups-vim-productivity-brings-ergonomic-benefits/
I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…
I went the opposite way, got sick of all the wireless stuff disconnecting, battery dying, or not working before the os boots so I switched to wired everything, I went as far as running a usb over ethernet extender to my couch area so I can have a wire keeb and mouse while gaming on the tv
little off-topic but
postman hands him card reader
why does the postman have a card reader?
Ours carry a small contactless POS so you can pay for the order on arrival. Maybe that’s what they meant?
Sideline him by giving him a android phone with the paid nova launcher.
I don’t use arch, but this applies to my android habits.
Nova has way too many settings now, though.
I use gestures and look&feel and that’s about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.
But that’s it.
On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.
This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls=‘ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first’
… I’ve been using nova for like, 14 years. It’s not complex. Now if you want a lot of options, FairEmail will overload your brain. Which I also have…
Backing up config files is actually a lifesaver.
The config file thing works better for NixOS, but the même is still very funny !
NixOS shills be like “your entire system is set up in one single file”.
They don’t tell you that the documentation looks like this:That’s the raw documentation. There’s plenty of other articles that are actually useful.
Isn’t it kinda sad that one has to rely on third-party articles to even understand the package manager/OS one wants to use?
Nobody said anything about third-party articles. The page linked above is supposed to be a reference, not a tutorial. But the official Nix website also has actual tutorials.
This may be the longest single page I’ve ever seen. The scrollbar moves almost imperceptibly.
That page is 17MB (of just text, no images)
can write 260 w/p on his own machine, will not find the escape key on any other
I swear, when I need to touch other people’s computers, I can’t get them to believe me that I program for a living.
Oh lord that escape key bit is me
Lol same. I stopped remapping it tho.
Ugh the caps lock key is too useless for the home row!
HUH? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?
