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@thingsiplay Nicely done, I like it!

For years, I’ve been using a similar(?), very simple script I’d banged together. I made it originally to track down a few out of control log files, and later changed it up for a general space freeing overview.
df -h $1 && du -ha "$1" |sort -hr |head -n25

@TheMonkeyLord #AntiMicroX is a good choice for mapping controllers to keyboard/mouse functions. I use it daily to control my computer from a flight-stick when I just want to lay back and watch stuff.

@krash @steeznson I always recommend #gentoo to anyone interested in learning about linux. I’d advise LFS only as a follow up to that once they have an understanding of what goes where.

@lemmyreader Looks quite snazzy!

@nyan How different does different get than very unsame? 😜

@Successful_Try543 Fair point, yes! …but I did recommend it as a “truly different” choice. 😉

@TimeSquirrel @nicknonya Been runnin basically the same setup for the better part of ~20 years. That’s not gonna stop me from playin with stuff I don’t know or like though.

@nicknonya If it truly is “different” you want, take a look at stuff like Tiny Core Linux, MenuetOS, or ReactOS. If you want a bit more milder different, may go with a BSD/UNIX. There’s loads of really weird stuff out there if you dig around a bit. Or just plunder DistroWatch for somethin that strikes you. Who knows, you may just find a new comfortable on yer journey. 😁

@flork Granted it’s listed in a mimeapps.list file, you should easily be able to pull the program name out of there by querying against the file in question’s mimetype.

And while “can’t be easily done” may be generally true, don’t call it quits; some file managers may offer less “not easy” than others. Don’t end your customization exploration because the file manager you currently use can’t do what you want, try fiddlin round with some others. The process for each file manager is going to be different, and getting the name of the program for any filetype is also going to differ depending on the syntax required for altering each different file manager.

@barbara Is bash itself not already an improvement on ““the basic stuff””?

…and whitespace in filenames is simply unacceptable, and should not be encouraged. 😆

What’s wrong with the method we’ve been usin forever of working with dumbly named files? Just "enclose em", or use\ an\ escape\ char in em.

@Sunny @minamoog It’d be hard to argue for anything against #portage! The only time it’s not pleasing to look at is when it’s littered with [ B ] markers. 😆

@HouseWolf Maybe try testing the hardware on a known working system.

@wwwgem I’ve been extremely pleased with @tuxedocomputers in both product quality and support. Next laptop will assuredly be another from them.

@imgel I wouldn’t consider #e16 a DE (still count?); but using that, I prefer having a frame-only window decoration. I use a simple #xdotool line in my #conkyrc to display the currently focused window.

${exec 'xdotool getactivewindow getwindowname'}

I’ve also used a combination of xdotool, randr, and eesh in the past to do tiling and arrangement.

@neogeo It’s been excellent, but again, I’m not doing very heavy work with it. Although, if I do play around with large models, it has no problem redering em. And games such as Star Citizen, Starfield, and Cyberpunk 2077, all run fantastic when turned up to 11.

@JokeDeity Seeing a device called “Bluez” trying to connect to your computer (in some undefined way) doesn’t necessarily mean it has anything to do with bluez.

@neogeo I think you may be on the right track with grabbing a newer AMD card, and keeping your old nv one just for the encoding stuff if you absolutely need it. I only do quite a bit of small drawing (mostly technical) in both blender and FreeCAD, as well as some occasional video editing in blender. I’ve had a RX5600XT since before we had proper drivers for it, and I’ve had no issues with it ever since they were in testing.

@qyron Maybe look at #e16, #openbox, #fluxbox, or #awesomewm, as they will be completely usable without any pre-configuration. Those will all give you a pretty well rounded feel for the comparison of window manager vs desktop environment. All are quite easy to hack on and decently documented. The appilcations menu for e16 should be auto-generated on first login, both openbox and fluxbox will most likely need to be generated manually, and awesome should just be ready to use as-is.

@Fredol I’ve found that many times, just disabling hinting unnastifies fonts.

@solarvector @Toyful
WiFi not working after suspend should at worst only require reloading the module, not a full reboot. This is a common thing I’ve noticed with many b43 and some old iwl cards.