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.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Btrfs. I’ve been using ext4 for so long, I’m afraid that switching up will just annoy me.

    Zsh: same reason.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Perhaps you are a more discerning filesystem user than I am, but I don’t think I’ve actually noticed any difference on btrfs except that I can use snapshots and deduplication.

      • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Not OP , but regarding zsh, it has much better auto completion, and suggestion support. Additionally you can theme your prompt much more, see for example powerlevel10k

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Actually, tutorials like that address a big train that I don’t want to switch. The first steps are things like:

        • Install these fonts that only work in a GUI environment
        • Install these programs straight from GitHub without your package manager

        …and all I hear is: “this stuff isn’t ready yet” and “I’m going to be starring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI”.

        If I can’t easily and securely install a shell on every environment I use as I don’t want to be constantly context switching, then I’m going to have to stick to Bash.

        • crater2150@feddit.org
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          2 months ago

          …and all I hear is: “this stuff isn’t ready yet” and “I’m going to be starring at Unicode glyphs the next time I have to tinker outside of my GUI”.

          This really isn’t a zsh problem, but a “people putting too much stuff in a ‘getting started’ config”.

          I used zsh for 15 years before looking at any plug-in manager, you can get a lot of the good stuff like the completion by just going through the first-run wizard included in zsh. A lot of stuff is included directly with zsh, including various prompt themes (which is what that tutorial wants extra fonts for, because they use a fancy prompt with custom glyphs; I don’t think any of the built-in ones need that)

          Things like fuzzy history search with fzf is usually included with fzf’s distro package and the additional zsh-completions package for less used or newer commands is also packaged by most distros. In my experience, a lot of the other plugins are stuff that could be a standalone script instead of a plug-in anyway.