A vulgar term for the penis is “bite” (pronounced “beet”) in French.

… Damn you.

Here comes a number of hours procrastinating tinkering with my system to make me more productive on one of the numerous side projects that I will, for sure, finish now.

I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again…

I mean, if your beliefs in the unix philosophy are still strong enough to do away with the convenience that is (or can be…) systemd, you deserve some respect.

Take a baseball bat to that piece of shit and stop buying terrible “smart” appliances. I know in some cases it’s getting quite hard (fucking TVs) but for a fridge? Come on now.

Please don’t bite the bite.

I mean to be fair, I am making a conscious effort to stay open minded when I give advice to people, but I also personally would avoid snaps (and Flatpak, but for different reasons) altogether.

But this is more me being opinionated and strongly disagreeing with canonical practices. I don’t mind sacrificing some of the convenience because of that, but wouldn’t push it on anyone.

All this to say, I don’t know the reasons why people tell you to avoid snaps, but I can imagine at least a dozen that would be valid opinions from technically minded open source people, so I would not jump to conclusions.

The snap thing has spanned a whole drama since the beginning so there’s a heavy context behind you might not be aware of. Or maybe you are and don’t care that’s totally fine too.

It’s only a matter of time until you match that meme and there’s only one alternative.

_{arch btw…}

That’s funny because seeing that meme, I thought how interesting it was that the “hardcoreness” of a Linux user went from being measured by the length of the greybeard to the height of the programming socks.

Although, I guess back then, the distros mentioned would probably have been revolving around Gentoo, void, slackware, and Linux from scratch. So I suppose greybeards don’t necessarily need the high socks.

Damn shame if you ask me.

Yup there is a bit of that, and also for me, although I readily admit the above is a bit cluttered, there is something nice about having the information laid out in a plane rather than nested in a hierarchy of menus.

Obviously, that’s not always possible, but I find sometimes that, for the sake of each pane appearing “simple” and “clean”, I need to hold more context in my head of where things are, and how deeply nested they are.

If I feel like trolling a bit, I’d say this:

But in all seriousness, I just don’t like the modern minimalistic styles and sliding animations and whatnot. I would not push something like the image above onto a user, but I’d be perfectly happy using that, personally.

For an actual answer, I’ve been getting into trackers lately on what little free time I have and am really enjoying milkytracker’s interface:

I was diplomatically explaining to an older family member just the other day that the top “result” in Google now is a bloody AI summary, and to not trust it, especially for medical advice after they’d sent us a worrying screenshot of it…

I can’t wait for the next conversation.

Hey, I’m clearly not in the target audience, so take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt.

I think your motivation is great, I absolutely loathe these websites you mention and, if my mother was prone to doing these operations on her machine, I’d worry quite a bit.

By virtue of that alone, I believe this is a worthwhile endeavour and you should keep at it.

But to answer more specifically your points.

1. I don’t know about the state of other GUI tools. Maybe the problem has more to do with exposure than lack of choice? I don’t think more choice is necessarily bad, the real issue is managing to put it in front of the people you’re targeting.
2. That goes to my second point. I could subjectively give you my opinion on it, but it would be better to have it tested by someone who fits the bill of intended user. I don’t know how many of these people you’ll find on Lemmy tbh.

Personally I… am not a fan of the interface but, I am a grumpy middle aged person who started on computers way too young on an Atari running Atari TOS… So my idea of a good GUI would probably send horror shivers down a lot of people’s spines. There are objectively good points to yours: it looks snappy, reactive, there are not a lot of buttons or options so as not to overwhelm, and an easy and clear way to open the file explorer. Looks like a great proof of concept that you can keep polishing and iterating on as you go.

Good luck with it!

Nobody stays awake like me. Nobody. I am tremendous at it. Everyone says it. Even the fake news people. Some people say I am the best in the world at staying awake. I have millions and millions of awake hours, and the greatest stamina.

For signal, you can add their PPA As explained here

For Godot, their website has an AppImage. This is a case where I’d say it makes sense not to have it being automatically updated, because if you work on a video game for the kind of time frame that they usually require, you want to decide when to upgrade your game engine (or not to at all) as it may break your current project. But you know your needs, just thought I’d explain the rationale for that particular one.

For Blender… Yeah if the version is outdated and you want automatic upgrades then Snap works. Maybe someone could chime in with another recommendation but that sounds sensible to me.

I also find KDE to be a real mixed bag. Every time I have tried it, thinking “maybe it got better”, it has ranged from being a bit buggy to “holy shit this is well broken”. I may just have been really unlucky but I have been burned too many times and now avoid it altogether.

I always assumed they went straight to Linus Torvalds, and that he’d personally revoke your Linux license and flame you publicly after receiving too many.

And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.

That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

Terry Davis.

Welp, here’s sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.

Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference: I only program with butterflies. Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly