Huh… I was trying to make a joke like people usually do at the expense of emacs but I came across some humourless accounts. (And this is my alt… don’t be weirded out)

Replying from my alt:

I was trying to make a joke but seems it rubbed off the wrong way. Although I do think there’s a philosophical discussion of complexity to be had here.

The problem with thinking “We have now simplified xyz software” is software developers have this bad habit of often assuming that the world updates to the latest and greatest version of software the moment they deploy it and they erase any semblence of past versions, shortcomings, or even workarounds that others may have deployed and trained their muscle memories on.

Complexity actually goes up the more versions of software that are released in the world.

You now have neovim <= 0.12, <= 0.13, 0.13 to keep in your head if someone comes to you for advice on how to setup this cool editor on their distro and they may or may not be able to upgrade to the latest version.

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if the US can enter the middle east at their own will and bomb the civilians there then yes those same people should be allowed to enter the US for free. You want powers but not the consequences?

It’s not just “woke”. DHH actively longs for the London of old with less brown people. Which is a bit tone deaf when you don’t understand that white people meddling in the middle east and africa are reasons why said brown people came as refugees on boats to Europe.

Allowing only raw resources to flow from these regions but putting up a wall for people is un-just.

On a side note, your installation of Void reminded me of my very first archlinux experience back when ‘archinstall’ wasn’t a thing yet.

oh is there a controversy with BSD?

as someone who is perpetually an intermediate beginner in all things in the computer science world (even though I have a CS degree):

(And, as a long time vim user who has moderate knowledge on what vim can do for me, and has grown up with ctags, cscope, fzf)

Does anybody else feel like we need to tame the complexity that is neovim configuration? Distros exist but they just package the complexity into sane defaults. Argh! every way of handling this seems boils down to trade-off and preferences if i go down the rabbit hole far enough.

but I feel like there should be a better way to organize this complexity. The other day I gave up trying to understand lua and just asked an LLM to set me up the LSP, tree-sitter, telescope, which-key, and few more plugins.

The most important thing I remember and share was I wanted to make these powerful plugins able to take advantage of each others’ expressive behaviors.

One example is LSP operation that has multiple results like “All references to this symbol” can be displayed and moved to with a telescope window, while binding it to ctags like key-binds.

I keep trying to learn lua and lua tables and it just doesn’t stick after sometime. Maybe my brain isn’t as elastic anymore now that i am above 30 or something.

the commitment is from open source maintainers who honestly need to see some support and traction. Hopefully the idea that necessity is the mother of all inventions motivates the few who still have 486 chips to contribute support.

came to comment the same. But it’s been a while since I was in tiling window land so not sure if it matches what the poster is looking for.

Case in point*

I think you’re the one who keeps thinking about what your friends recommended. They simply gave you an option and moved on. you on the other hand seem to have devolved into a crusade against an alternative choice in running your own OS.

Honestly I have never heard of upscroll. Whatever you did sounds like a good thing to me, especially the “Here’s more of the thing with more people and ticking more of your boxes you can be a part of” as a suggestion.

It doesn’t sound as tone deaf as “Use Linux” advice, although it’s also an area where I wish people took “Use Linux” as more of a “Here’s something you like” instead of “YOU MUST DO THIS”.

the metric that makes sense for that qualifier i guess is customizability. But one can argue its straightforward control of the packages that is clearly different and unique about it

So I would like to know from experts working on Realtek or those who are following closely enough to understand the details what exactly does the “Big HAL layer” entail interms of so much refactoring?

From what I can understand it looks like most of the vendor released stuff is not inline to the design of the kernel and thus it works in a different manner than the rest of the kernel.

But then, why wouldn’t experts try to clean room implement the driver by mimicking the official driver?

yeah thanks for the resources. I decided to just go through the manual.

And yeah, the older terms… I understand them as I am a crusty millenial and kind of like the charm of it.

my goal is to shift to emacs for work as I am drawn to the efficient notetaking + planner + dev environment with org mode.

any quick way to learn emacs syntax for a long time vim user? I understand if you suggest evil mode but lets assume i actually want to learn the emacs motions.

I can go through the emacs manual but that is more of a longer term engagement.

I tried nixos. But alas, I don’t have the time to unlearn traditional Linux management and get into the groove that makes it click for others. I don’t run a homelab, my dev environment is my company’s macbook that connects to development rhel servers through ssh or vscode. I run popOs for what little time i have to tinker in my free time.

I tried tinkering with NixOS in a VM on apple silicon. The experience of finding what image to download for Apple Silicon and installing the OS was straightforward and i did manage to start getting the hang of it. But very quickly realized you start out maintaining packages through the system config file, invest some time, discover home-manager, and then later discover flakes. Then I also discovered none of the tools like neovim, python work like they do on imperative distros.

At least with python the right way to manage is to forget using pip or uv in the traditional manner and simply use the nix-shell feature per directory which is actually the most frictionless way to do that in my experience.

I can see how nix and nixos are godsend for DevOps, server folks who need reproducible builds, love configuration as code that compilss the same way every time and anywhere, and hate non-deterministic behavior.

But yes. The author is right. I too felt like the OS needs your time until you set it up just right for your needs. Daily driving it is not a install and go affair unless you already have a repo of configs built up.

And if you’re like me and anxious about having everything organized “just right” it will be a nightmare of ignorance until you find the best practices which certainly takes a lot more time and kindness on yourself than you might allow or actually possess.

nah they no longer care about retail. the real mullah is made in corporate and B2B.

That’s the driver behind every enshittificatiom behavior.

if you have a link to the list/copies of it, please share it here. We can spread awareness so we can get some traction.