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There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.

Starting to feel like a boomer with st/dmenu on xorg.

less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it’s not that different from more… My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.

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I understand the problem of “code it yourself”. But if they won’t code it themselves, and it ought to exist, who has to? Everything that is provided is provided for free and with love and passion. If something is lacking in that there are only a few options. Including code it yourself or pay someone to code it for you. The only reason you get anything at all is because of the “code it yourself” attitude of the people who developed the software in the first place, as well as their willingness to share it.

Yes, indeed. Even agreed! Joking i was, poking some fun. All in jest, even the emoji couldn’t put the overly serious answers to rest!

Debian users analyzing graphs in order to estimate when they can upgrade from really old software to slightly less old software 🤣

Void linux

I like fucking around and finding out. I also don’t like roll backs, real men only roll forwards :)

(don’t take that too seriously please)

Artix because it is more Arch then Arch according to Arch’s own goals: “focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance”. There is no way systemd is more simple, minimal and elegant than its alternatives. I don’t think systemd is bad, but I do think it is a bad fit and Artix is what Arch should have been.

Unless you have a particular reason for sticking to POSIX, who cares? I’ll take the user experience improvement without worry.

I like fish abbreviations. They are like aliases but expand when you press space or enter. That way you can edit it, and also still see the full command so you are less likely to forget it when you don’t have your aliases. Of course I have some scripts as well.

Is suckless surf small enough? https://surf.suckless.org/

I don’t, I didn’t do it back then and I ended up using this system for much longer than I thought I would(4+ years). I want to do it next time but I don’t feel like reinstalling just for that.

I always shut it down every night, so usually not much more than 12 hours at best.

My terminal doesn’t “scroll” at all. Page up and down is all I need. I also don’t smooth scroll in my browser usually. Does it add anything? Isn’t smooth scrolling just worse actually (just like any other animation ever)?. The sooner the screen stops moving the sooner your eyes can lock on, focus and read. I never payed attention to it but you say it’s not widely supported, and that kinda makes sense to me. I can’t think of any reason to have it. I do lots of things in the terminal, I don’t even have a file manager. Smooth scrolling would make me slower and I would go crazy. Also you could scroll and end up with half a line visible on the top or bottom, which is just kinda weird and wasting space.

• I build software that I changed or patched
• When the bat version in the repos was broken I just installed it with cargo which compiles the latest version
• You can get a compiled version with a ‘-git’ package from the AUR if you need the latest features not yet in a stable release
• Some pieces of software I use I made myself so they are compiled by me
• Maybe you want to install some software that is not available precompiled
• The XZ backdoor didn’t work if you compiled it yourself: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Personally I wouldn’t call that replacing. But that’s probably because I am a deranged minimalist. I can’t answer this thread because technically I didn’t remove anything that my installation started out with.

Do you really replace bash though? I also use fish but even as a relatively deranged minimalist I haven’t removed bash as it has so many dependents.

I don’t know of any. I do like keyboard based workflows so I have VimiumC in firefox which does what you want. A tiling window manager is the solution for the desktop environment part. The tricky part is navigating existing GUI apps.

They all work using macOS’ accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

Because linux doesn’t have a unified framework because of our freedom, things like this are very tricky if not practically infeasible (at least as far as I know).

edit: There was also a thing where you divide up the screen recursively with keyboard shortcuts and when the intersection hovered over whatever you want to click you could hit a key and it would generate a mouseclick there. I forgot the name, never tried it either. But a plus is that it doesn’t need applications to implement a certain API to work so it would work system wide.