Modern Linux reminds me of when I started using Linux ca. 2 decades ago.
The graphics server randomly crashing without any usable error message, all applications have different font scaling and style. Screen recording not working (let alone individual windows recording), having to re-login for gaming, desktop menu has no proper icons support etc.
My last thing is starting log-running terminal tasks in a #tmux session because I know that at some point the GUI just stops working and drops me to the login prompt.
It's alive! Though I had given up yesterday, after a few tries today I got NetBSD 10 running. Though booting is still a bit flaky and I am investigating freezes, I may resurrect this one after all. I could replace the Sony VAIO keyboard, but I just like this one's keys much better than the Sony's island keyboard.
"I hope you don’t mind me asking but what keeps you coming back to #Emacs? I am currently wondering whether to look at #Neovim again - it does seem to be faster and with a strong community around it."
Apologies for the delay, #HaikuOS fans. #MAME is currently building. I foresee no issues, so I should be able to get the pull request done to HaikuPorts tomorrow morning (UK time).
#tmux is really handy for this sort of work. I need to see if there's something better than VNC for remote desktop access of Haiku from Linux for testing graphical apps.
@llii@Presi300 It was made for apple users and evidently so (it's basically #alacritty and #tmux but closed source, cloud-based and with some AI bullcrap on top of it)
Linux vim, emacs, neovim and/or tmux users, what terminal emulator do you use and why? I heard about kitty, but idk if I really need all of that. For context, on mac I use neovim with iterm. #linux#vim#neovim#emacs#tmux#debian
#MAME 0.262 for #HaikuOS patched and compiling. Please stand by...
(#tmux on Haiku is very glitchy, whether running locally or over SSH. Look about halfway down the htop list. Getting a "stable" screenshot takes time.)
Over the last decade, I had to adopt several "modern" professional tools, pulling me out of the #Emacs bubble I had built up over the first 3/4 of my career. Graphical Email, modern browsers, video conferencing, Slack, Outlook, Calendaring and Jira. My return to #Emacs in #tmux on my #OpenBSD server, my happy place, has been eye-opening.
I still have a bailout for interacting with modern shit, and my work laptop is still MacOs. I am still cursed with Slack and Jira and Chrome for work. But now that I have my safe space back, I don't find myself as frustrated during the day when I have to use the modern sub-standard tools. It's saving me some stress budget for sure.
@louis Heh, sounds like we are on a similiar trajectory. I am considering a X1, but first I'm going to take a crack at dual boot #OpenBSD on the M1 Air.
I'm already compiling a list of tasks for that, starting at gettting my #Rustlang pwget util able to handle write operations on pwsafeV3 DBs, then figuring out why #tmux is munging lined with wide utf-8 characters, and then on to whatever drivers I'll need to touch up to get the M1 usable as a daily driver (if any?).
Decided that I'll limit several sources of content, youtube, patreon, podcasts to my phone or AppleTV for now, makes it an easier leap. The M1 will always be dual boot.
To keep my setups in sync, I previously used #nix. I had a single flake that would produce nix-darwin or nixos systems and home-manager modules. That required gigs of disk space, and the declarative power came with several layers of abstraction to learn and debug.
All of this leads me to unwinding a decade of Apple patronage. My mind if just calmer, my soul happier, with text and a ps auxww where I know every process, and have read large parts of it's code and man pages in the last couple decades.
It all let's me focus on the "problem domain" that interests me most -- connecting with humans, collaborating, and mutating our brains together.
My parting shot, err, question. What is it holding you back? And what if you didn't have to make some clean break, or declare some purity, but just make it a game, an experiment, an art project?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
I installed a few different distros, landed on Cinnamon Mint. I’m not a tech dummy, but I feel I’m in over my head....