Never heard about it, but seems like it is, indeed. Thank you.

cool 👍

• Panel 1: You know these.
• Panel 2:
  • OS: ZorinOS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Fedora
  • Browser: Brave, Firefox
  • Apps: Telegram, Signal
• Panel 3:
  • OS: Debian, Arch, VoidLinux, LineageOs (Android ROM)
  • Browser: qutebrowser, Librewolf
  • Apps: Jami, Briar (first time hear about them), Fdroid, Element (Matrix client)
• Panel 4:
  • OS: Tails (Live distro for privacy), Gentoo (DIY distro)
  • Browser: Tor
  • Apps: IRC (text chat rooms), XMPP/Jabber (messaging protocol), self-hosted community (applications you can put on your own server, I presume)
• Panel 5:
  • OS: Trisquel, Parabola, Guix (all three approved by FSF as “actually free”)
  • Browser: Icecat (gnu firefox fork), lynx, w3m (both terminal-based browsers), (missed opportunity to put emacs here as well =))
  • Apps: Emacs, Emacs, Emacs (powerful os with built-in text editor)
• Panel 6:
  • OS: Garuda, No idea ([something arch-based](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ Arch-based_distributions)), Arco Linux, Arch Linux
  • ???
  • Apps: Kvantum (qt theme manager), Latte (macOS style application dock for KDE), Plank (also app dock)
• Panel 7:
  • OS: Temple OS
  • Browser: Bible
  • Apps: Racing game, Tanks game from TempleOS, Amen.

Not sure where I fall into this chart =)

Favorite OS: OpenSuse Tumbleweed
Favorite browser: Librewolf
Favorite Apps: Vim/Neovim (not even close to anything else)

• I’m not paranoid, though. (It’s not paranoia if everyone agrees with you, most people just don’t care)
• I love FOSS culture and hate corporations with passion.
• For messaging I use Discord and Telegram
• Use old netbook from 2007 and my desktop PC is around the same age.
• I do watch Luke Smith and “Richard Stallman was right”!

You can put egregious amount of cheese on anything and it would taste atleast half as good as pizza.

Ubuntu: 😮why?

For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who’s not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

Mint: ex windows guy?

Aren’t we all?

The most stable rolling distro.

Zip is fine (I prefer 7z), until you want to preserve attributes like ownership and read/write/execute rights.

Some zip programs support saving unix attributes, other - do not. So when you download a zip file from the internet - it’s always a gamble.
Tar + gzip/bz2/xz is more Linux-friendly in that regard.

Also, zip compresses each file separately and then collects all of them in one archive.
Tar collects all the files first, then you compress the tarball into an archive, which is more efficient and produces smaller size.

Need another guide for the step F, because how the f do you not drop the sheep with that awkward grip?

mod+shift+q so you wouldn’t close hours of work by accident (e.g. when typing other mod+_ keybinds)

Half of the linux ecosystem is personal projects.
Linux itself started as

just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu

It’s not useless as you can learn from it.

Almost. It doesn’t try to solve all the problems, though. I’d say it’s a passion project like Haiku and TempleOS.

From interview: it started as a research project. The author wanted a distribution that uses the least system resources with maximum performance.
He started with archlinux, moved on to gentoo and to go even deeper - found the infamous “linux from scratch” and started to shape his own distro.

Ok, because of this post - I decided to bite the bullet and try wayland again. And it was much better experience this time:

I’ve installed sway “pattern” on OpenSuse-Tumbleweed and:

• Previous time I had some issues with lightdm not supporting sway, now - it just works.
• I still use xdotool and i3-msg in my custom scratchpad script and yet everything is working.

waybar absolutely supports clicking tray icons.

I confused it with swaybar, that’s installed with sway by default and should be an i3bar-compatible. Waybar doesn’t seem to support i3bar protocol, but anyway, after I configured it - it’s like 95% there from what I want.

• I had to force xcb platform for appimage of nekoray (qt VPN gui), because it’s complaining about missing wayland-egl plugin. But it’s a small problem with straightforward fix, so not that bad.

I could switch tomorrow if I could do my current setup:

• Tiling Window manager (sway?)
• simple status bar to output text from a script with clickable applet icons (waybar?)
• the way to show/hide windows on a button press - I have a script that I use to quickly toggle 3 dropdown terminal windows

Last time I tried Wayland in December, I had issues with waybar not supporting clicking tray applet icons. Also I’ve ported my dropdown terminals script to support sway - and it worked half the time, like, literally every second key press was ignored.

On one hand I have X session that currently has no downsides for me, on other - wayland that has no upsides. Tell me, why would I switch?

Wake up -> wash face, brush teeth -> piss -> shower -> (optional: smoke) -> 180 turn -> take a dump -> wash hands. No time wasted, optimal morning routine bathroom.