Subj : Re: Linux To : Atroxi From : Dennisk Date : Mon Aug 24 2020 21:55:00 -=> Atroxi wrote to Dennisk <=- -=> Dennisk wrote to Atroxi <=- -=> Atroxi wrote to Dennisk <=- -=> Dennisk wrote to MRO <=- -=> MRO wrote to Dennisk <=- 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, At> Oh yes. What a thrill doing something like that is. A few months ago I At> dived head-first into Gentoo and suddenly a whole world of At> customization was opened to me. I never imagined how these small tweaks At> would actually be beneficial on the long run but it did. Sadly, the At> amount of time compiling packages really took a toll on me, haha! And I At> feel like I'm not yet smart enough to deal with stuff or maybe I'm just At> lazy to give up a weekend to just learn the stuff. At> Right now I've pretty much integrated my whole setup around using bspwm At> and terminal applications. It's surprising to me actually how little At> that I need to have to be able to use my computer productively (or not, At> haha!). Most of the time I'm just writing stuff and that's done through At> vim and I either compile it to LaTeX or groff. Other than that, most of At> the stuff that I have are scripts that I wrote to manage the system's At> functions like using dmenu as a power menu, display menu, mount menu, At> etc. I think right now the only thing that I'm missing is the ability At> to do spreadsheets, and while libreoffice does that I would like to do At> 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). At> Oh man. It IS a pain. I like groff/nroff. I have some reports that I generate, and instead of using Office productivity programs, I write a program in D to parse some CSV files, and some text explanations I put in two text files, and insert the results of the CSV files as tables into a groff template. (Its a financial report). All I then have to do, is fill in a couple of CSV files, download two more, type text comments in two files, and run a script, and I have a formatted PDF report. Another one I do, I did in Open Office, but I found it fidgety (and awkward). So again, a simple CSV file or two, gnuplot and groff, and the report is generated, a PDF with a report and graphs and tables. Sure, it took longer to set up, but once done, I generate the reports in no time. Consistently and fast. In the long run, I save time. If there is some other function I need, I can quickly write it up in the programming language of my choice (or use the unix tools). FVWM makes things even easiser, as that Window Manager has its own scripting language and ability to create forms, so I can generate these with a keypress from my Window Manager, bringing up a form, where I can fill a few details to enter. .... "42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?!" --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 .