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  • NostraDavid@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•When did you go full Linux nerd?
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    3 days ago

    Uh, just yesterday. Installed NixOS (with KDE) because I learned Debian at work, but am really missing the ability to track what I’ve installed via configuration. I like the idea of dotfiles in a repo, but want a bit more control like that for my OS.

    Context: I’m a data engineer that writes Python. Python has pyproject.toml files (toml ~= ini files) where you can specify which libraries you want to use, defining which version you minimally, maximally, or just specifically want. And I wished that setup existed for Debian as well, but it doesn’t. So after searching I found that NixOS is pretty much the closest thing. Windows 10 is EOL soon enough, so might as well switch beforehand and not wait until the last second.

  • NostraDavid@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Share your Bash prompts!
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    3 months ago

    You can see here my theme with autodetect of Python (I work a lot in Python). The orange bit is the error code returned by the previous command. Git is supported as well, and looks pretty much like powerline-gitstatus, as you’ll read about below.

    NostraDavid's Starship theme, based on powerline-status + powerline-gitstatus

    First, lets make Bash a little better:

    # throw this in your `~/.bashrc`, and then `source ~/.bashrc` for it to take effect, or just restart your terminal.

# == shopts ==
# https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html
shopt -s autocd         # cd into folder without cd, so 'dotfiles' will cd into the folder
shopt -s cdspell        # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s direxpand      # expand a partial dir name
shopt -s checkjobs      # stop shell from exit when there's jobs running
shopt -s dirspell       # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s expand_aliases # aliases are expanded
shopt -s histappend     # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histreedit     # lets your re-edit old executed command
shopt -s histverify     # I'm confused.
shopt -s hostcomplete   # performs completion when a word contains an '@'
shopt -s cmdhist        # save multiple-line command in single history entry
shopt -u lithist        # multi-lines are saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolons; explictly unset
shopt -s checkwinsize # update LINES and COLUMNS to fit output

    Autocd is a big one here, cdspell and direxpand as well. Ensures I don’t need Zsh for the same experience. With Zsh I’d just get annoyed by small stuff like having to wrap things in quotes (I think pip install some_lib[some_extra] works in Bash, but not in Zsh And Ohmyzsh just felt it kept slowing things down, so I actually dislike Zsh ^(please don’t kill me) >_>

    Anyway, I based this on powerline-status + powerline-gitstatus (if you want to use that instead (no, my config doesn’t work), just sudo apt install powerline-status powerline-gitstatus - DO NOT USE THE PYPI VERSION (it’s too outdated, and a pain to install)) because I had issues with finding the right combination of my configuration and which libraries to install for bash - there are too damn many: powerline-bash, powerline-status, powerline-rs, powerline-go, etc, etc. And they all do things just that little bit different.

    Anyway, here is my ~/.config/starship.toml (archive1, archive2). It’s a little long, and can probably be shortered, but that might break something again, and I’m not willing to risk anything right now.

    https://gist.github.com/NostraDavid/675a0706716b98816fd2809560ffe42c

  • NostraDavid@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Dev with old laptop
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    3 months ago

    Also make sure it has a decent SSD

    That means any SATA SSD that can pull 500MB/s. No need to try to stick an m.2 7000GB/s SSD into such a weak laptop. Not trying to poop on his hardware - just staying realistic for when you look for an SSD (presuming he does not already have one).

    After 10 years, I still remember switching to an SSD from a classic HDD. Probably the biggest hardware upgrade I’ve ever done.