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gramgan,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c8231296-fa31-4abd-8072-ecaf74a9a0f2.jpeg

gramgan,

Always nice to see Helix :)

gramgan,

Yeah actually is there a way to NOT have nano on the system? I’d really like to remove it…

gramgan,

I think it’s possible to remap Helix to be almost (if not completely) Vim-like. I got it to be (I think completely) Kakoune-like with like 15 lines in my config.

gramgan,

Out of curiosity, what program are you using to write? I think I saw they have a web editor, but I there’s a neovim plugin (and maybe an LSP) as well I think.

gramgan,

I think it’s also worth pointing out the social factor in pen/paper notes as well—jotting things down on a notepad seems a lot more attentive than typing into your phone.

gramgan,

The best way to understand really is to install both and try yourself, but basically I would say Kakoune is more “radical” than Helix, which feels more like Vim. Both move the selection in normal mode, but Helix has you extend it using what’s basically visual mode, whereas Kakoune cuts out visual mode altogether and has you hold Shift. As you can see in the config, reconfiguring what Shift does causes issues with normal Vim bindings (like joining selections with J), so Kakoune solves this with Alt.

After using it for a few days, it made a lot of sense to my brain—I would say, in general, Kakoune feels enormously well thought-out and carefully considered in every element of its design.

gramgan,

I was able to go zero to Nix in probably 6-10 hours, and could’ve done it sooner if I’d known about this sooner (and I’m not a super technical person).

gramgan,

Tablet?

gramgan,

P.S—

My main problem is screen tearing (my display refresh seems to be 59.999, and I notice this when moving windows around or watching 60 FPS video or even just scrolling PDFs)—is that something Wayland would even help at all? Am I just wasting my time here?

gramgan,

FreeBSD has rollbacks like Nix?

gramgan,

Grass. He’s outside. He’s escaped the computer.

gramgan,

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but the nextcloud-client package works fine on my system.

gramgan,

There’s a school I’ve worked at that’s got somewhat old desktops running Ubuntu. I smiled when I saw it.

gramgan,

Is that the Nyoom neovim distribution? I’ve never seen it out in the wild! How is it?

gramgan,

Will 2025 be the year of the ARM Linux desktop?

gramgan,

Give it a decade, I reckon. As traditional SMS and phone calling die to platforms like WhatsApp/Telegram/etc., and those platforms become available cross-platform, the idea of a Linux phone might become possible. It’s just a matter of decentralizing the distribution of that software, at that point (like how GrapheneOS and others current have the problem of needing the Google store for installing proprietary apps).

gramgan,

Keeping my fingers crossed for XFCE…🤞

gramgan,

I read something about this but is MATE as viable an option for most users as XFCE in 2024? I can’t tell if there’s much of a community around it.

gramgan,

Switching to Nix could certainly simplify a lot of things. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went that direction soon.

gramgan,

I use GNU stow for my dotfiles because I like it better than the way home manager does it (but I still use home manager for other things). Big piece of advice I’d give is to just remember, as you learn Nix stuff and get all excited about “reproducibility” and “declaring” things, that you don’t have to do everything the Nix way. You could very easily have a single configuration.nix file that mostly just specifies packages and then do nearly everything else the old-fashioned way. It’s your system and your comfort. (But for the record, I used arch-based systems for a long time as well, and though it took me about a week to figure out what I was doing in a NixOS VM, the satisfaction when I finally deployed to bare metal and everything just worked exactly as I intended it to was quite nice). And as others have said here, nixpkgs is massive and likely has all of what you need.

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