Why would you carry around your secure password vault in your pocket? #thatsjustdumb

Windows 95b

DK is really small, and doesn’t try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.

I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I’ve grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.

DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in “DE’s” like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.

Oh no! Anyways …

VSCode is one of the best free editors second only to Neovim (and maybe DoomEmacs), and the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not. Azure runs Linux, and a lot of work has been put into WSL to where it’s pretty darn handy if you’re forced to use company Windows hardware but need to do Dev/SRE tasks.

Windows 11 and Teams though can die in a tire fire.

We get it, you’re a filthy casual.

Tell us you know nothing about running Linux and rely on app stores for your software.

The marketing sounded interesting, but after a bit of digging I realized I’m not the target audience. As a turn-key solution for non-Linux people however it seems to be making great strides.

I was in the same boat. I just want the VPN for my torrent client, without it impacting any other running applications/services. Try https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono, which uses network namespaces and has killswitch functionality.

As for Nix, I have no idea.

No one uses Thunderbird anymore anyways, which doesn’t matter as the ToS changes to Firefox are a nothing burger and won’t dissuade millions of people using it daily despite what the neck beards on Lemmy would have you believe.

I just run rtorrent with vopono/openvpn in a tmux sesession on a raspberry PI. It can be a bit of a pita getting utmp working though.

(e.g. you use Firefox to make a post, they have to process those keystrokes through Firefox to send it to the server, and thus could require permission to do that in the form of having a license)

A better example would be stored credentials, credit card information, and other PII type data.

Agreed. Using X11/DK as the WM, sxhkd for keybinds, polybar, and bemenu with frequency as an app launcher. 100% keyboard driven.

I used Sway on wayland for a bit but I couldn’t deal with the way screen sharing worked.

Sometimes I’ll be on Zoom keys and see a co-worker struggling to resize/move windows around and I just want to scream.

I completely agree, though in that case I can’t see what the advantage would be if you already have Windows, to switch to Linux. It’s a challenge, you’re going to be constantly looking for alternatives to software you’ve used for years. Let’s face it, the software world is still primarily focused on Windows, and while there are a lot of developer and server packages that Just Work Better™ on Linux, but if you’re an end user who’s only interested in gaming, why bother?

You never really said what you like about linux or why you even want to use it. You want an ‘easy-to-use’ distro, but I’ve never really run into a ‘difficult-to-use’ distro, and that’s going back to the Slackware/RedHat 4.2 days. PopOS!, Ubuntu, EndeavourOS, Slack, Debian, they’re all ‘easy-to-use’ when you don’t specify a use case.

Personally I love the challenge, and that nothing is forced on me. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday researching and trying to figure out how to get spell checking working in qutebrowser, and I got a little dopamine hit when I was finished.

Windows doesn’t make me excited to use a computer. Linux does, because it’s challenging.

Yeah that’s weird, after a systemctl soft-reboot, both picom and xorg’s memory usage is way down. Either way, it’s still not that unreasonable to see Windows idling at 2GB.

Really? My arch install is idling at 2.8gb. Picom (310mb), XOrg (160mb) and pipewire (140mb) are big chunks, and kitty isn’t cheap either but the rest is mainly sub 50mb services that all add up. I’m not running anything heavy like Gnome or KDE either, just bspwm and 2 polybar instances (one for each monitor).