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  • I did use the previous one. Liked it well enough, despite having some config issues. (definitely my own fault though)
    But then it entered maintenance mode, and I had a few alternatives to try out … It’s good to see it lives on though, so I’ll keep an eye on it as I might give it another go, thanks :)



  • Thanks for sharing, looks really cool! Especially with how prevalent markdown is.

    Hopefully this isn’t too off topic/thread derailing:
    As a longtime LaTeX enjoyer, lately I’ve become increasingly infatuated by Typst. With Excalidraw quickly winning my favour as well …
    However I find myself daydreaming of some of Obsidian’s powerfull features for knowledge graphing/“second brain”-ing, but given various reasons, never successfully convinced myself to use it. (Primarily: markdown seemingly a bit too simplistic for my preference, and Obsidian, to my knowledge, not being open source(?))
    Instead I’ve tried some alternatives, each with excellent ideas, unfortunately none really hitting home with my wierd brain. e.g. Zim, LogSeq, SiYuan, ...

    As such I’m curious to hear about others’ setup, and thoughts. - Is Some(Quarkdown + Obsidian) perhaps what I’ve truly been longing for for?


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    I feel like hyprland is really popular, or at least it’s the one I most often hear mentioned. It should be really configurable as well, so maybe it’s worth a look. I’m not sure you’re going to notice much of a performance difference though, unless the device has a really limited amount of RAM.


  • I’m excited you’re giving Linux a try! There are a ton of excellent ressources online for learning about Linux, how to make it your own (a practice commonly called ‘ricing’), or fix errors you may encounter. These are explored further in the links below :)

    1. Picking a distro. What I hear is that, unless you have some problematic hardware it doesn’t really matter what you pick. So if it feels overwhelming, don’t stress too much over if it’s the “right one”, you can always try different ones out. Having said that, my impression is, many coming from Windows seem to be happy with ‘Mint’. Likewise ‘Bazzite’ seems popular as of late. But ‘Pop_Os!’, ‘Debian’ or ‘Fedora’, are also all perfectly valid choices. Personally I’ve liked using Endeavour OS with KDE, for quite a while.

    2. Software. There’s so much cool software out there, so maybe search around for which can solve your needs. I like browsing Flathub.org or blogs, such as, Phoronix to discover new software. There might also be a discovery feature in the distro itself. Both Firefox (and its derivatives such as LibreWolf) and Chromium (along with its derivatives: Chrome, Brave, etc.) runs well. Even the much smaller project: LadyBird, does so. I have no experience with music production software on Linux, so cannot comment on that.

    3. Games. Might depend on which types of games you play. But to me it seems Steam (using Proton/Wine), Heroic Games Launcher, and Lutris, works great. The steamdb as others mention is also a super ressource!

    If you made it this far through my wall of text, I’m delighted by your curiousity. Two Linux “introductory videos” I’d like to share are respectively from Nick@thelinuxEXP Linux isn’t (just) better, it’s also more FUN! and Brodie Robertson’s Linux Resources Every New Linux User Needs Odysee YouTube