Same.

I dont do much customization, but the endevorOS community edition has decent defaults.

Just working cleanly with tiling feels so good. You dont have to use the mouse to move all the windows around. But if you hold the super key, you can just drag windows around to make a perfect layout. But often than not, i just want 2 windows side by side, with no wasted space. Done.

Can you still use KDE connect if my main WM is Sway?

That’s why I always use hexagonal windows. It never goes out of style.

Damn. This doesn’t match my experience in Hawaii at all. My in-laws live there, and everytime I visit I sustain my life with fruit and Avacados. I’d kill for some plant based SPAM.

Yeah, two separate drives. Do you set up bios legacy from the bios menu?

Damn, that would be perfect. I’ll give that a go. Thanks

Interesting… but that just replaces an existing step with another step. I’d like to reduce the overall steps to get to each system. And if I can’t do that, I’d at least like to switch the order to win>EOS>Deb

That is incredibly true. I try to automate everything I can. That’s where laziness is a superpower.

That sounds pretty slick. I envy your scripting prowess. You really have to know your system top to bottom to be able to boil it all down like that.

I’m just beginning my journey into this whole space, and it’s really interesting how many different ways people have to deal with the same basic things.

I’m also incredibly lazy, so maybe more scripting is in my future! Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed reply!

I really like this strategy. I currently use proxmox for my home server needs, but I am curious what you use now instead?

EDIT: I am dumb, and just needed to download the font to my system. Please ignore

Heyyo, me again. I have been tweaking with the Yambar for a little while now, and I thought I was getting somewhere, but now I have a different issue, and I can’t seem to get the proper terms to google. Again, I think I’m missing something basic.
It’s the emojis, why can’t I see them? I can’t see them online in people’s example dotfiles, I cant see them in vim (I imagine this is intentional?) And I surely can’t see them in my status bar. It’s driving me crazy. I really want to have a super minimal, lightweight bar, but I don’t want it cluttered with all sorts of text!

Thanks again,

Thanks for the quick reply! (and for going out of your way to help). I renamed the YAML file, and tried to run it from the terminal and it threw some errors (missing dependencies for some of the content in that example YAML. I installed those dependencies just to see if it would show up, and it did! All the icons are broken (guessing that’s a font thing?) and a few of the bits/bobs aren’t working properly, but it runs!

Thank you so much. I will now begin the fun task of tweaking (AKA breaking it, fixing it, and breaking it) until it fits my needs.

It’s definitely not as pretty as bumblebee-status! But if it’s lighter on resources, than it’s a win. I guess I’ll have to test that somehow…

I’ve found vibration sensing to be the easiest.

Interesting! Looks pretty slick. Might be a nice stepping stone into that world. This chromebook is so old that it could be a perfect playground for this sorta thing. I don’t have any important files/apps or anything on it that I’m afraid of damaging or being without. Thanks for the suggestion.

After some serious googling, it looks like gestures is a feature that really only exists in the “luxury” DEs. There is something called Touchegg and Touche that can add them to others, but I’m not far along enough to know if it will do what I want it to.

I just tried debian with Xfce, and it’s pretty fast, but I REALLY love using gestures! It makes my tiny screen feel way bigger.

I’ll be honest, I’m a bit scared of Arch, but this might be the push I need to give it a go. What’s the worst that happens?

Can you add trackpad gestures to Arch?

Yeah, you don’t have to remove it (I didn’t when I tried this 10 years ago) but if you don’t you always have to hit ctrl+l when it boots, or it could get stuck looking for ChromeOS. The hardware is so old now, I don’t really care if I brick it. I’m just learning about linux by goofin.

Looks interesting! Seems it pantheon is built on top of GNOME, so wouldn’t that make it a bit heavy for my 2GB RAM beater? Or is there really not that much difference between the different DEs with regard to resource usage?

Dang, that’s a nice deal. I think I want something with a bit more juice, as I would like to play Minecraft from time to time. I’m leaning towards used thinkpad

I think this is the way forward.

I’d love it if I could find something with a decent GPU so it could run some Minecraft action.

Is eBay my best bet?