Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.
You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it'd be well worth the time invested.
I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you're looking at. Which honestly doesn't take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I'd say a month or so learning time).
Ahhh, I see. There should be others that have run into the same issues you have. Don't give up! I'm sure you'll run across something that works.
Linux is a great community to be in. I will say that before it rose in gaming popularity, there was a lot of gatekeeping, though. But in the end, 99% of Linux users are just people that go, "I KNOW this can work, and I won't stop until either I break my system or I figure out how it works."
This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.
I'd love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that's completely open source, but I've tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that's why I'm working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.
Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.
Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I'm currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I'm happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.
I'd take it home and raise it as my own and name it Billy for the billion I gave up for it. I'd give it snuggles daily and be happy, knowing that no amount of money is going to solve whatever the fuck is wrong with me and the world we live in.
Hm, well it looks like others have been putting out some good troubleshooting tips for the controller. Linux should have kernel modules to deal with every controller and it's wireless. I know my Dualsense works wirelessly out of the box with everything because of the hid_playstation module
Sleep and hibernation is a well known common issue. I feel like its more hardware related than software, as some people have no issue and some need to do a little tinkering to get it to work. I know my PC will hibernate but not sleep. Or vice versa. I can never remember because I don't like my PC going to sleep on principle. I haven't done any troubleshooting because I don't use it anyway. I just know there are a ton of fixes floating around on the web for you to try.
Flickering and visual glitches is something I used to have. I used to get weird diagonal lines across my screen when certain colors would be in a certain position. There's a few things that could do this. First, if you're using an Nvidia card, be sure to use proprietary drivers on Linux install rather than Nouveau. Nouveau is getting better, but still isn't quite ready for gaming imo.
Second, you could try another video output. I fixed my diagonal lines by switching from Display Port to HDMI. My friend suggested it and I was sure it wouldn't work, but to my surprise it did. Third, if you're using Wayland you could try to switch to X11 (or vice versa if you're using X11).
Hmmm... that's strange. Afaik, Xbox controllers should be very well supported out of the box in most distros.
Ahhhh, I see. I did a bit of reading out of curiousity. You're looking to have it work wirelessly. Hmm. I see a forum post troubleshooting the same thing recommending a package called xpadneo. There's a github page for it here and it seems to have some package maintainers in a handful of distros (you can use the manual method if your distro isn't listed).
I checked it on the AUR, the most up to date maintained package was from last December, so the app seems fairly up to date(ish). If you want to see the forum post I was talking about its this one.
Good luck, hope you get it working.
Fedora is still good for now, but that's the same for any distro. Any dev can pull shady shit. I really want to check out Nobara, which is Fedora based and designed for gaming. I believe it's developed and maintained by GloriousEggroll, who we all know from GE-Proton.
But I'm too happy with vanilla Arch and NixOS.
This sounds great and I'll have to look into it. I have nice glassware pieces for home, I rarely like to take glass out in my pocket. I remember this gaming convention I went out to, there was a field in the back. We went back there to smoke and there was already circle.
In this circle, they were passing around chocolate Godiva vodka and this really REALLY cool piece. It was a large bowl, fat and completely see through. Inside was this massive plastic replica of a HUGE joint, rolling around free. On the side of it, it said "The Labrador". It was an old first production Tommy Chong piece. Felt honored to smoke from it.
My step-dad is a straight laced guy; ex-manager higher up in the mill business. He bought a lathe. For Christmas he gave my gf a really nice pipe from a kit he bought, which surprised us all, lol. The kit comes with a cone pieces, metal tubing, a mouthpiece, and even a screw on cap with a small hole in it, too keep your herb inside when it's tumbling around in your pocket. He buys acrylic blocks and lathes them to make different colors.
He's been making a decent side business selling them to local headshops for $25 apiece and buys the kits for $15. I've told him he could charge more, but its just a hobby and he doesn't want to get greedy with it. He can make tiny short ones, or double pipe long ones. The cones even have a shelf to set screens on. I've always just flattened a piece of sticky bud to make a screen and keep the ground material out of the works, but the little screen shelf is great for that. I bought one and that's what I use to carry around. Its an all metal-acrylic construction.
Here's a pic of one (not the best quality camera, lol):
He gets all kinds of cool acrylics and the metal can be silver, gold, or black. My gf loves halloween, so she has a black one with a bright orange mica design acrylic. It completely screws down to the base components, so it's super easy to clean.
My gf still uses the toilet paper roll/dryer sheet trick. The whole apartment smokes, but she likes to be discreet and respectful. She used to also burn incense, but I think the massive amount of incense she's burned during our time together has made me allergic. Every time I'm near one my throat gets narrow, my eyes water, and I can't stop coughing.
About a week ago I forgot my pipe so I took my brother-in-law's knife, dented a beer can, and stuck holes in it. Gen Z can hit that pen all they want, but I'll be the one still getting high when the apocalypse hits. These are not tricks. These are key survival tactics.
I love it as a terminal to use to run background processes when I need them. For example, I use it for lowfi, a CLI app that plays lo-fi in your terminal. I can get into Kitty just as fast with Rofi.
Alt-Space, "kit", and enter. Boom. Its up in the same amount of time it would have taken me to move my hand to F12. Then I do my updates, grabbing packages, running my file manager, etc.
I love Yakuake. If you head to the Yakuake settings, head to the Appearance tab and click Select New Skins, the Tabs Only skin would match your aesthetics perfectly. Its my favorite one. It does remove your settings button, but you can get back in with
Ctrl-Shift-Commaif you decide you don't like it.I use a Debrid service and still go out of my way to get the torrent and seed 3-4x. The only reason I don't use the torrents directly is that Stremio is just quick and easy on the TV for now. Once I get a pi setup on my TV, I'll be torrenting and watching via that while I seed.
Debrid is easy and convenient. That's it. However, I'm not a fan of Debrid, nor am I a fan of private tracker sites. Making something a paid service or a closed group invite only is, by definition, the complete opposite of what piracy is supposed to stand for. Leave that shit to capitalism, imo.
Basically, private and paid anything is for the birds, man. I'm still out here torrenting on public like a real buccaneer. Do I pay for a VPN? Yes. Its a necessity, especially if I want to open a port and make sure every peer can get to me. Other than that, I don't want to pay for shit. The only payment I condone is seeding.
Lmao, I suppose that's true. But think of the snazzy fetch ascii.
I guess if I want to learn the inner workings of Linux it'd have to be LFS. Iirc, LFS is just like, "here's a kernel, good luck".
Pop will make sure you're nice and comfortable. Its in the top two for great starter distros alongside Mint. Both will take care of you and your driver/dependency needs, regardless of GPU.
Honestly, unless you have any real problems running Nvidia, I'd say upgrading now would be a waste. Unless you need more vram for something like localhosting large AI LLMs. Nvidia is getting better at just being supported and stable out of the box, even on Wayland.
Definitely something to keep in mind when you actually need an upgrade, though. AMD and Linux just pair well without any extra steps, like coffee and cream.
But Nvidia is as easy as selecting proprietary drivers on install these days and has very little issues. At least not enough issues to warrant upgrading such a newer card. I'd just save the cash up for the next big AMD release.
As someone who started his tabletop experience with Star Wars 3.5 and moved to D&D 3.5, I agree. Its hard to find a group in my area, though.
I should try to get something going. I have the complete 3.5 D&D collection as well as a complete GURPS set.
It has been one of the best choices I've made. The itch to play does go away after a while once you break the routine.
I started out customizing my Neovim shortcuts, too, since my keyboard layout is set to Dvorak, but after realizing that I'd have to do that for everything that used Vim shortcuts I forced myself to get used to the defaults. I used to use Vimium, a browser extension/addon that incorporated Vim shortcuts into your browsing. You don't even need to touch the mouse. You just hit "f" and bring up letters by links and type the letters to go to them. "Shift-f" would bring up link letters that open in a new tab. j and k scroll up and down. Things like that.
Eventually, I moved to Qutebrowser instead; a browser that comes built in with vim-like commands. O will bring up ":open -t" for new tab. Lowercase will bring up :open which would open in the same tab. You can make quickmarks, too, which allow for custom site abbrevations. So I hit "o" and type lmy to go to Lemmy now. It's quite a nice browser. Open source and runs on QT-Webengine. You can use Vim commands, too. :q will quit, of course, but :wq will quit while saving your open tabs. It's actually really smooth and has built in dark mode for websites. :Ss will take you to the huge settings list, but you can opt for python config (or hybrid config) as well. You can use brave-adblock, python-adblock or both and add your own adblock lists in.
There's a cheatsheet for it here.
I'm going off topic now (I love Qutebrowser), but I decided not to change the shortcuts because there are so many applications that use Vim commands that it would take forever to change them all. I recently went back to my old custom shortcuts and found that I hated them.
Yet: A yeti youth, not quite of age to be a full yeti.
If it fails again, try these two tricks:
I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.