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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/unixporn@lemmy.world

I'm curious, what do you do about VLC if you use a tiling WM ?

  • Do you ignore the pain and still use a theme ?
  • Do you not use a theme and live with it messing up your nice color scheme ?
  • Do you just not use VLC ?
[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the tip I always forget about the 32 bit thing and then wonder why stuff doesn't work ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Wait how did I watch so many videos of this channel in preparation for switching to Nix but miss this one ? ๐Ÿ˜‚ (Thanks !)

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submitted 3 months ago by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/nix@programming.dev

Hi, I am considering switching to NixOS and I was wondering what level of hassle I should expect for gaming.

I have been using linux for about 10 months so I don't know a lot yet. I am wondering if it is worth it to try gaming on Nix or if it is going to be way too much of a headache considering my limited knowledge.

I've had wildly different experiences trying gaming on different distros, and very differently from what I expected. It went from fine for a weird niche distro (antiX), to really awful for a distro supposedly "easy" and "good for gaming" (Manjaro ๐Ÿ˜‘), to absolutely amazing gaming distro (Nobara), and finally to surprisingly good for a "don't try unless you are a Level 99 Tech Wizard dual-classed Zen Master you idiot" distro (Arch). So I really have no clue what to expect from Nix.

I really like Arch but my main issue is that I keep forgetting what I have already configured and how and with which settings, or I leave stuff partially configured because adhd then I forget it wasn't finished and where I was at, so using config files instead sound insanely more convenient and I've been wanting to try Nix for a while.

I'd be really glad for anyone willing to share their experience of gaming on Nix ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Talking to people I don't know and initiating conversations in general. If the other person doesn't approach me first, I can't do it myself. I'm not much into dating, but it's really inconvenient for socializing in general.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Nothing yet, I'm still trying to figure out how to get my orange pi working... not much progress yet because I am just starting and making a server is very intimidating ๐Ÿ˜… For now I'd like to just get it working so I can access a hard drive, and if I manage that and feel very daring, then pihole, jellyfin and home assistant.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Cat pictures ? Definitely the best possible use of a server ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Whohoo it's nice to hear good news concerning the gaming industry for a change ๐Ÿฅณ

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Wow thanks, I'm definitely going to alias that :)

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I thought I had left that crap behind years ago when I ditched Internet Explorer for Firefox, and then Firefox for Waterfox... but since switching to linux a few months ago I haven't managed to install it so I've been stuck with Firefox... ๐Ÿ˜  Time to try Librewolf I guess.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

As a general rule :

  • Never doing stuff that will take care of itself. Since the dishes want to dry themselves, it'd be really rude to prevent them from doing so by manually wiping them.
  • Minimising the time spent in pointless effort for things that will need to be undone. So never making my bed, only folding clothes that really need folding and that I won't use soon, etc.

Random stuff :

  • When cooking, making food for several meals at a time.
  • Using a rice cooker (or other appliances that cook food for you and that you don't need to watch).
  • Using several laundry bags, one for each type of laundry program or liquid, so that it's already pre-sorted and I can see easily if there's enough in one bag for a wash. It avoids going through everything only to find there's not enough black clothes/white clothes/delicate clothes/towels/bedsheets/whatever for a laundry.
  • Never using laundry clips. They take too long to put and remove. Instead I use hangers and S hooks, and for the small items that can't be hung on hooks and won't stay on hangers like gloves and socks, I just dump them on a shelf made of metal bars (there's folding ones you can put on a radiator).
  • After doing laundry, leaving clothes I will probably wear soon where they hang instead of folding them and putting them in their place only to have to take them out later.
  • Having a "to put in bathroom" and "to put in kitchen" basket where I put stuff I need to put back in the bathroom and kitchen, so I don't have to walk there for every item.
  • Not putting a duvet in a cover because it's very tiring and I really hate doing it. Instead I sandwich it between two larger bedsheets.

On my computer :

  • Keybinding every frequent apps and actions, rofi almost everything else (apps, ssh, file browser in some cases, calculator, unit converter). Saves a lot of time, pain and aggravation by not clicking so much all the time.
  • Using 'vim -y' for simple text editing cause I don't have months to spare learning regular vim, or years reconfiguring emacs' shorcuts, just to take some notes or make an ASCII drawing. And nano's shortcuts make my brain hurt almost as much as emacs make my hands hurt. (To be fair, I probably would save more time in the long run by just learning vim but my brain starts going "NOOOPE I'm on strike" whenever I consider doing it ^_^")
  • I'm considering trying NixOS because I keep wasting time forgetting if I already configured something, how I did it, what settings I used, etc, and having a declarative config file instead with everything listed in it seems much more practical.
[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

ยซ Ad funded ยป ? Don't they mean ยซ Google funded ยป ?

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Definitely Nobara, it's a distro optimized for making games actually work. On other distros I always had some games that wouldn't run, but never on Nobara. Zero hassle.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

More properly, GNU/Richard Stallman, or GNU + Richard Stallman

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