Ah yeah, that didn’t make a ton of sense. To some degree, I wanted to say that it may show up in various config files, which you’re right, I could template with a shell script.

But then I’m using Nix for scripting, which has a concept that everything should be defined in the repo, so you shouldn’t have dependencies on external state like $HOME or $USER.

I’m still working out to what degree that’s actually necessary/useful (and I do have a workaround, so I don’t need to check in my username). But I’m guessing, it comes partially from the ‘proper’ thing being NixOS, where you define the whole OS in your configuration, so you would need to type out at some point anyways, what the user should be called, so that it can create it.

Somewhat of a cheap answer, but I feel what illustrates the difference quite well is that Linux follows the design from UNIX, which was a research project with stupid amounts of money to at least try to get things right. On the other hand, Windows originated from an OS, which was referred to by its developers as “Quick and Dirty Operating System”.

And I do feel like these foundations have informed the design of all the layers built on top.

Looks like he’s in a high-rise building.

If the part you dislike is having to manually download updates, then this might be a solution: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater

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Yeah, I feel like a big part of the reason it was designed like that, is because it was designed in the 70s, where you couldn’t really throw up interactive prompts. But interactive prompts are also somewhat tricky for scripting, as it’s difficult to detect whether a user could respond to the prompt, meaning the script might just hang there forever.

That’s kind of the problem. You almost need separate tools for scripting and interactive use, but having separate tools is also not great, since people will inherently try to use the tool they know for everything…

Ah yeah, I don’t do a ton of gaming and mostly keyboard-only. I mean, I do possess a mouse and a game controller, but an advantage of the laptop-only life is that you can throw yourself onto the couch, which I do enjoy.

And I do tend to buy higher-end laptops anyways, so luckily haven’t had to think too much about touchpad quality…

I feel like the main reason the distinction exists, is because deleting a whole directory can be potentially catastrophic.

I looked at Trashy yesterday, which gives you a command trash my_file that just moves the file into the trashcan folder. Well, and that decided to make no distinction between files and directories, which does make sense to me, since you can just restore a deleted directory.

Basically, I do lots of things with keyboard shortcuts, so my hand is hovering over the keyboard by default. Which means, it’s just much quicker for me to reach for the touchpad below the spacebar, and particularly also to later move back to the keyboard without having to find my position anew.

I do still find touchpads less precise, but I often accomplish the clicking of buttons via keyboard shortcuts, and mostly need the mouse pointer for dragging or hovering things, which don’t require a ton of precision.

Well, they mean with one keypress or at least fairly quickly. Like, I don’t know, maybe you keep in your working memory which windows you had used and then can just hit Alt+Tab+Tab+Tab without looking.

But yeah, as soon as you have to look at the individual windows while switching, it’s gonna take longer and particularly also kind of take you out of your current task.

Yeah, every so often, I’ll accidentally switch over and think to myself that I should do something on that.

But I’ve kind of gotten messy with them and they’re more just wallpaper colors and rough topics now, which makes it easier to silently start re-using workspaces for new, exciting projects.

Personally, I’m on Krohnkite (the version for Plasma 6 (which should be the only version you can find from within the System Settings on Plasma 6)).

I use a lot of virtual desktops and yeah, I genuinely disable other monitors, if I sit at a workplace where I’d have two.

I took long train rides for a few years, where I’d work with a laptop, so my entire workflow is now single-monitor. I frequently sit down at workplaces at $DAYJOB where I would have two monitors and then I disable one of them, because it’s just genuinely not useful to me.

And if that didn’t terrify you, I also prefer touchpads now. 🙃

Ah, good point. Does make me wonder how the font developers test the effect of certain ligatures, like did they actually have both Clojure comments and unconditional C loops in mind when they introduced this ligature…? I guess, it doesn’t really break anything, so could just introduce it and see if anyone complains.

Should that not be alias rm=trash-put ?

My distro tells me that trash-rm comes from the package trash-cli and the README of that says that trash-rm removes files from the trashcan.

I often use clear when I need to rerun the same command and want to see the output in isolation each time, so I might run clear && ./build.sh and then just press the up arrow and run it again.

But I think, many people are also just not aware of the keyboard shortcut or don’t care to remember it, since they don’t use it often and clear is easy enough to guess.

There’s this classic: Suicide Linux

Aha! Seems to just be a convention to use multiple semicolons for full-line comments, but that’s still probably it then.

https://ostash.dev/posts/2021-02-19-clojure-code-comments/

Thanks! 🙂

I’m not. I really don’t know how you’re reading that into my comment, where the first half literally expresses my worry about this being child labor. I’m not going to argue for a position I don’t hold.