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it’s a shame too because it’s a REALLY good WM. it’s very lightweight as it’s based off DWM. It can do what Hyprland and Niri do but at a fraction of the memory usage. It’s just the damn config is a mess.

so as an example say you want to switch workspaces. normally in pretty much ever DE or WM it’s going to be mod+1 or 2 or whatever right? if you have a window on workspace 1 and you want it moved to 2 you’d do mod+shift+2

with mango it’s ctrl+1, 2, 3 etc to switch workspaces THEN alt+1,2,3 to move windows to them. Or focusing windows is alt+h,j,k,l BUT switching windows suddenly introduces the super+shift key. focusing a different monitor is alt+shift BUT moving windows to another monitor is now super+shift. It introduces a lot of confusion trying to remember all the combinations.

naturally you can reconfigure all of this to a single mod key and it won’t conflict with anything else thus the reason why the dev introduced 3 different mod keys is head scratching. Also depending on what apps you use you pretty much have to reconfigure the keybinds because there could be conflicts.

same great ones too. neocities is fun to just go through but my favourite is using https://wiby.me/ and just hitting “surprise me” some great old school personal sites.

mangowm. it’s lighter than both Niri and Hyprland and does a better job at what those two are supposed to excel in. That being said I do suggest you clean up the config for mango because some of the keybinds will leave you scratching your head as you can literally use one mod key for everything. For whatever reason the Mango dev decided using THREE mod keys was the way to go.

doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see why they’re saying this. all you have to do is use the various models to see within the past year they’ve all become noticeably worse for average consumer use. All the training data is out of date, all of it. The gaps between updates of said data have increased. They’re out of data to consume and it took them too long to realize that feeding off each others waste doesn’t work. combine this with the fact they’re all collectively out of money.

You’re better off just using a search engine at this point like you used to in order to get a solution. Because all these LLM’s are hallucinating now to such a massive degree in a desperate attempt to provide the user with a positive solution.

After watching a video about this last week I would pick man first arriving in Australia. the animals that existed there way back then make the stuff that’s in Australia today look tame. I just want to see the faces on these early humans when they realize how fucked they are. Giant Komodo Dragons, Giant Koalas, Giant Snakes, a damn Crocodile that could run on land. It’s amazing any of them survived.

And this is just going to fuel on the fire that is DHH’s crusade. He’s already called the linux community “a bunch of clowns” so this is just going to generate more money for his dotfiles and more than likely grow the userbase.

Granted the Omarchy userbase are a bunch of morons. Also doesn’t help that youtube linux content creators are all pretty much praising the damn thing and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know why. Makes it easy to know which creators to unsub from but it literally leaves it with 4 left one of which doesn’t post anymore.

I can also attest to this. about 2 to 3 years ago when dev houses and startups started utilizing AI I transitioned from a contract dev to a sort of glorified code reviewer/digital janitor. I saw the writing on the wall and figured my skill at code reviewing would become valuable. In hindsight that was an understatement.

Senior devs who have completely embraced AI have stagnated or regressed in their skill set. Juniors/fresh grads are just glorified prompt monkeys. NONE of these places can fix anything that the AI agents build. None of it scales. None of it can be potentially refactored. I get contracted to try to “fix” these issues and I simply tell them it can’t be fixed. they need to start over and ACTUALLY build the thing from scratch with qualified and competent devs. the problem with that is they already laid off said devs or fired the ones that refused to utilize AI in their builds. And even if they wanted to hire those devs back either most have totally abandoned the field (obviously with good reason) or, and good for them, are asking for much higher pay to return.

So yes it’s not going to be a problem, it currently is one. Initial builds can potentially work just fine but after that good luck, everyone is collectively screwed. There’s no one coming out of school that is going to save this and the ones that could save it have said “nope, I’m done”. Myself I’m retiring by the end of this year. I’m also done. I figured I’d focus on FOSS projects but even those projects are drinking the AI Kool-Aid so I’m not going to do that. the few projects I was contributing to or helped maintain I’ve told them I’m done. I’m just not going to touch code anymore unless it’s updating my personal websites or nixos configs. that’s it. I’m out.

AI is a tool, like a hammer, and should be used as such. And like a tool should require training. The problem is people aren’t using it as a tool and rather look at the hammer and say “go build me a house”. That’s where the issue is. Does a hammer know how to build a house on its own? no. does AI excel at end to end builds? no. but people are using it for said end to end builds.

Devs, vibe coders, god knows who else still to this day fail to understand that AI doesn’t understand how to build things correctly. All the agents care about is getting to a solution as quickly as possible to retain a userbase. that’s it. will what ever it builds scale? no. will it be full of exploits? very likely. will it be able to refactor whatever it wrote? no because it will believe YOU wrote it. so upgrades/improvements to whatever are virtually impossible.

THEN you combine all that with the fact that EVERY AI’s training data, currently, is incredibly out of date. Tech moves too fast for it. So you have people building shit with libraries and what have you that are already out of date and they don’t know that.

You don’t actually have to be 1337 to use arch

Omarchy users in shambles right now. oh who am I kidding, they can’t read.

honestly once you learn how to install Gentoo and/or NetBSD every other install is an absolute cake walk.

Really though like you said it’s valuable knowledge to learn.

they’re going to re-re-release WoW classic? why? I don’t understand it. like how many versions of the original do you need?

still remember mine: 18982172

I’ve been using IRC for going on 30 years now and always love finding new/interesting Servers so I would appreciate a PM with details so I can check it out, thanks!

I like Haiku, i’ve installed it a couple times. An incredibly easy and insanely quick install. If you’re looking for a simple OS to browse the internet and do some light dev work and need it to run on old hardware you honeslty can’t go wrong with it. Out of all the none linux OS’ I was honestly surprised it had Floorp, don’t even have that on any of the BSDs.

ok hear me out: If a user is going to build and compile their own kernel to simply put in a couple cheats for a specific game then…hey let them cheat. I HIGHLY doubt your average cheater is going to go through all that to cheat in like arc raiders or something.

I just don’t see hundreds or even thousands of players doing this. Not enough anyways to ruin the online experience for others.

could it look close? eh maybe. the visual customization of it is still kinda limited. like if you’re looking to have the same customization levels of say Plasmashell you’re out of luck. If you’re ok with the “pill” look then it’s fine but beyond that you couldn’t make it look like say DWM’s bar or what have you. But I suppose if you wanted it to look like cosmic or maybe gnome it’d be more doable since they all kinda share the same principal of “pills are a great look”

As far as if it’ll play nice with GNOME? no clue. I’ve used it with Kwin in the past as a replacement for Plasmashell and it worked fairly well.

you don’t use Noctalia alongside plasmashell, it just works alongside Kwin so I’m assuming that’s what OP meant. Noctalia just replaces your plasmashell.

every now and then I like going through and reading Linus’ commit messages for uemacs. It’s impressive that he’s still maintaining that thing on a near weekly basis.

Also he writes some of the longest commit messages known to man to the point where i’m like “I didn’t know you could write them that long”

I just use Floorp with my linux and windows installs. on OpenBSD my options are a bit more limited so I need to either try to compile Floorp for it or find something else (if there even is anything else)

Hell Floorp is even on Haiku. It’s a rock solid firefox fork made by a Japanese dev team that doesn’t release/update until things are absolutely rock solid. I can’t even recall the last time floorp broke, if it ever has. good browser, always my go to FF fork.