Subj : Re: Linux
To   : Dennisk
From : Atroxi
Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 22:02:00

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 MR>   Re: Re: Linux
 MR>   By: Dennisk to MRO on Mon Aug 10 2020 08:50 pm

 Un>> boot things out the window far too often.

 MR>> why is windows so hard for you? they designed it so even idiots wont
 MR>> have problems with it. ---

 De> Idiots may not have problems with it, but anyone who isn't one, will.


 MR> if someone is smart enough, they will be smart enough not to have
 MR> problems. ---

 De> I don't think it works quite like that.  Some people are too smart, and
 De> end up creating problems they didn't need to.

 At> Yeah, I remember years ago when I really wanted to customize the crap
 At> out of the Windows 7 box, with all those custom aero stuff and
 At> aesthetic stuff that only a nerd teenager would care about. I went into
 At> a dive of modifying system files to the point of breaking my system
 At> just because I wanted to change the way it works. Then, I found
 At> GNU/Linux and it blew my mind how I can actually build a custom system
 At> from the ground up instead of stripping one away and making it custom
 At> (though still not quite).

 De> Being able to compile the kernel, and choose what goes into it was
 De> something that surprised me.  It was one of the first things I tried to
 De> customise! (After selecting the window manager I wanted).  I borked the
 De> system a few times, but my compiled kernel did run faster and leaner.
 De> I mostly customize the GUI (I use FVWM, which allows for some heavy
 De> customisation, more than any other WM I've used), the shell,
 De> streamlining things, and changing some niggly defaults that don't suit
 De> me and adding things I think are missing (like a shutdown/reboot
 De> button) on the XDM login screen, disabling pulseaudio, adding the -CK
 De> kernel patch, adding scripts, etc,

Oh yes. What a thrill doing something like that is. A few months ago I dived
head-first into Gentoo and suddenly a whole world of customization was opened
to me. I never imagined how these small tweaks would actually be beneficial on
the long run but it did. Sadly, the amount of time compiling packages really
took a toll on me, haha! And I feel like I'm not yet smart enough to deal with
stuff or maybe I'm just lazy to give up a weekend to just learn the stuff.

Right now I've pretty much integrated my whole setup around using bspwm and
terminal applications. It's surprising to me actually how little that I need to
have to be able to use my computer productively (or not, haha!). Most of the
time I'm just writing stuff and that's done through vim and I either compile it
to LaTeX or groff. Other than that, most of the stuff that I have are scripts
that I wrote to manage the system's functions like using dmenu as a power menu,
display menu, mount menu, etc. I think right now the only thing that I'm
missing is the ability to do spreadsheets, and while libreoffice does that I
would like to do spreadsheets in the commandline.

 De> occasionally using my own copy of a binary instead of the distro one
 De> (I try to avoid this, because its a headache during updates).

Oh man. It IS a pain.

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