• sheogorath@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Pretty much. After I got married and started having kids I just want a PC setup that just works when I want to do anything on it. Without needing to troubleshoot some esoteric issue because apparently my motherboard is on a different revision version that changes the WiFi card to use some shit ass MediaTek card ONLY for that revision and now I can’t use WiFi or Bluetooth and I need to troubleshoot the issue for hours.

  • ULS@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    A new long term release? I’ll just start over and try every DE again.

    • brenticus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call “tweaking my vimrc” a hobby.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Once your system setup reaches perfection (it won’t), you’re finally free to fine-tune VIM to your exact needs.

    • kureta@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      god damn it! I was about to say that I’m done configuring after decades and can finally be productive, then I saw your comment. 🤦‍♂️

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Already done… but now I feel like I need to switch to Neovim… and now I have to research Neovim plugins and configs….

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ve used gentoo in my home for 23 years now. The good news is I’m down to system rebuilds once every 18 months or so.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Debian will slap you every time you decide to do some deep tinkering, so you develop healthy pavlovian reflexes.

        It’s the only way to have enough free time to organize my drawers in gridfinity boxes.

    • quantenzitrone@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      Yes.

      I’m mostly finished ricing, everything works, but every now and then i find something I want to improve or try out.

      Well there are still some things I want to implement, like adding smart window transparency to swayfx, but that is kind of a mammoth task, while I can’t even get it to compile properly…,

  • nieceandtows@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I’ve finally stopped distrohopping. I’m now on nobara (used arch before that btw), and don’t feel the urge, nor have the energy to distrohop, even though I want to find out what’s so great about nix. That said, I still only use my computer for movies, games, and browsing, so I guess the meme still stands.

    • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Same. I want to try NixOS, or immutable distros, or a fully containerized system, and I’ve been meaning to give Gentoo a shot for years as well (I’m not suffering enough on Endeavor, btw). I even got a second drive just so I don’t have to throw my current setup away, but I’m just so comfy and everything just works and it’ll be so much work to actually give a new system a fair shot.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I used to be him, missing deadlines to get my xmonad taskbar all spec’d out. Now only “hop” when my LTS is EOL, and i just run the default UI and use tmux for all my tiling since i tend to be mainly on remote systems anyway.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Problem I have, is, after I finish tinkering and settle down with my computer for some days/months, then even anything needs fixing or changing I’ve forgotten how I do it!

    • raldone01@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Now you have got a good excuse to setup something to manage your knowledge base.

      I recommend markdown:

      • frequently_encountered_issues.md
      • lots of helper scripts scripts
      • Setup guides mostly taken from their respective arch wiki pages but stripped down to only show my custom setup
      • a markdown file per os per machine
      • etc
      • Also link back to the original resources. Still copy them though. The internet is temporary.
      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        I have a collection of org-mode files and plain text. Moved more to markdown but not for my setup notes yet. But it’s still a lot of brain work to match the pieces together and remember what matters.

        Now, I neat idea I heard recently: run a local llm that can index your own notes. I don’t know how easy that is. There’s an Emacs mode for that, right?