For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).
Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
Niri looks really cool. I’ve used tiling WM before but scrolling is a unique take, perhaps more productive for some folks?
Nushell is a good one. I do data science for a living and it’d be nice to have the shell handle some small data transformations instead of writing a script in python. But all the syntax and behavior is very different than bash, so I’ve been afraid to start because of the learning curve.
Elixir, or Gleam/pure Erlang/some other Erlang VM language. I think Erlang is extremely cool and I’ve enjoyed the little time I spent with Elixir. I also have absolutely no use case to make proper use of it.
LLM speech-to-text.
It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.
Still very cool!
Grab the Live Captions flatpak
Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I’ll give it a try.
A billion dollars?
Do people even wish for a million dollars anymore? Shit doesn’t even buy a home in most cities.
It’s a wish, why would I settle?
the lack of XWayland support scares me
I’ve been using niri lately and couldn’t believe so many apps wouldn’t launch. I didn’t know that was the issue. I had been manually editing so many desktop entries to make them work…
Neovim. I tried to use it a year ago, but I felt like I was fighting it every time I just wanted to make progress on my project. VSCode doesn’t get in my way. I’m going to give it another shot in a few years.
If you aren’t already, you could get familiar with the vim motions within VSCode via a plugin. Moving over to a vim setup can be overwhelming, setting up your lsp,linters, other packages. Adding on the need to still learn key bindings makes it extra difficult. I started with VSCode using vim motions, went to doom emacs and used evil mode and then my mentor got me hooked on vim. Do it in steps and you’ll get to a config that lets you code without much fussing, good luck!
Oh, yeah, vim motions are wonderful. I started using them when I installed Linux on my Chromebook due to the lack of a good keyboard setup (I still don’t know where the Delete key is on that thing).
Haven’t used neovim, but I had to try vim way too many times. I can’t use anything else now.
I just moved from Neovim to Helix. I think it’s worth considering, especially if you don’t know the keybindings yet. Plus, Helix is probably easier to learn.
Try kickstart.nvim. I was skeptical until I tried it. It’s a very good starting point for Neovim. Pretty much eberything else I’ve ever tried is either too bloated, too complicated, too outdated, too overwhelming, or a mix of the above. Link: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
I think a lot of the recent AI tools could be fun as toys to play around with, but I’m just very uncomfortable using tech that exploits everyone who doesn’t own a huge megacorp.
Also, emacs as a replacement for my graphical editor. It feels like there isn’t a “neovim” style modern version, and there’s a steep learning curve to configuring it.
Also, Wayland. Come on, Cinnamon. ;_;
If you want something similar to vim or neovim, but without all the fuss learning how to configure it and install plugins and such, you could try helix.
I’ve been using Niri with
Xwayland-satellitelately, and it works as a charm. it works out of the box, and you simply run it in background, and launch your X programs withDISPLAY=:0curious to check that out, going to be testing wine wayland driver on niri as well
SimulaVR or any Linux VR desktop experience.
I want to lean back and be immersed on the desktop so bad, but only if it is worth the cost (e.g. not trading ever detail of house in ewal time to Facebook …).
I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I’ve moved and don’t have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.
Python. Been wanting to learn it for years but all mental capacity I have toward such stuff is drained by work. The whole situation is ironic.
Look at “The Farmer Was Replaced”
There a few things I’ve wanted to try for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it.
AstroJS (I’ve tried it, but only half-arsed)… It’s cool, but the lack of native react support scares me…
Cosmic DE… Still waiting for the alpha.
Python. It’s a good language, I’ve spent some time learning it, I’m just failing to find a use case for it atm.
Textual (Python framework). It’s really cool, but OOP scares me.
Zed - I’ve been kind of using it for one-off edits, but it’s just not mature yet for most languages.
And they use extremely bad coding practices
Care to elaborate?
Have a source?
Somewhere on Lemmy but dont bother to look as it has no search.
There also is a Github issue. Search for “zed automatic download plugins”
There are a lot of “I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it” social things like Matrix 😑
DNS ad blocker. My network setup is more complex than I can understand and if I set up AdGuard/PiHole I have issues.
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