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As if I needed more reasons to love Stephen Fry!
As if I needed more reasons to love Stephen Fry!
What’s that tablet it’s running on?
This is awesome! Thank you!
These look great!
I’d personally be curious, though, to experiment with non-standard input and UI designs on these phones. Although the touchscreen model has become standard, I’m not sure it’s ultimately the best for all things—I’ve been deeply enjoying my Garmin watch, for example, which has four buttons rather than a touchscreen. I think buttons, dials, etc., (besides simply feeling good to use) are faster for some things. If we’re gonna go against the grain, why not go crazy? I think physical buttons (or at least stuff like the back button on Android) may be to touchscreen interfaces what keyboard-centric workflows are to the mouse and GUI (in terms of efficiency).
I guess I should have written the post a bit more clearly.
I’ve got the for_window
part, it’s just that after I set the opacity for all windows app_id=.*
, the following lines of the config cannot override that for the specific windows I want different opacities for.
How have I never heard of this! This is awesome!
Very cool. yabai
is a great project that makes macOS actuallly usable.
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.
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.
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?
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.
There’s a school I’ve worked at that’s got somewhat old desktops running Ubuntu. I smiled when I saw it.
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).
Will 2025 be the year of the ARM Linux desktop?
Keeping my fingers crossed for XFCE…🤞
Have you given any thought to using a window manager with your desktop environment? Maybe one that can be customized to provide very basic functionality? I use bspwm with XFCE, for example.
Wow this looks awesome! Is Debian the only option?
Good question, I don’t know! I haven’t touched a Chromebook since at least 2020…
If I were to do it now, I’d probably still use crouton, but get it to download something other than Ubuntu 16.04, or I’d just dual boot.
I tried
imv
and hated it. I just usefeh
(through XWayland) ormpv
now.