river is cool but it’s heavily modular. i love it.

first off, you should choose a window manager. there’s a list on their page. for example, rill is a scrolling wm like niri. there are also stacking and tiling wms on that list.

then you should also install some tools. their wiki also includes a brief list.

• a bar (e.g. waybar)
• an output manager (e.g. kanshi)
• an input manager (e.g. channel)
• a screen lock tool (e.g. waylock, swaylock)
• a launcher (e.g. wofi, fuzzel, tofi)
• a notification daemon (e.g. fnott, mako)
• a wallpaper tool (e.g. awww, swaybg)

this would give you a fully working wm.

river + rill. i had been using niri and i love the concept of a scrolling wm, i just love that i can customize everything as i like with river.

unfortunately dwg files are a blind spot on linux. there are projects like qcad and librecad that have experimental dwg support (behind a paywall for qcad) but they require you to learn a whole new set of tools because workflow is entirely different for these.

i don’t have experience with the web version, it might be enough for files with fewer elements but your best would be to use a vm for immediate future.

alternatively, you can draft your work in 3d and export your drawings from these files. for architectural work there is a great addon for blender called bonsaibim, for mechanical work there is freecad (it also has a workbench called bim workbench for architecture) and for circuit design there is kicad.

for 2d your best bet would be qcad (free) and draftsight (paid). some distros have qcad in their repositories.

a little more sophisticated would be freecad with its bim workbench and blender with the bonsaibim addon. both of them let you draw in 3d and print floor plans off of those model.

for a quick mockup you can try sweethome3d.

https://meshcore.co.uk/

this channel has great tutorials. they’re up-to-date, too.

I have a thick as a brick vinyl from 1972 and it’s still in a great condition :) i know it’s not suitable for 8-channel recordings or anything, but maybe we should’ve invested in that type of research.

you can start out with wayfire, as it has basic a panel included.

simple cuts and joinery

is it woodwork? then there’s a decent workbench https://github.com/dprojects/Woodworking

check out other workbenches, too https://wiki.freecad.org/External_workbenches

i think gnome and kde both have graphical interfaces for this. i like doing config files.

she was just happy for me.

i’m not trying to convert her, it’s just that i’m comfortable in doing this, it feels natural to me.

because this video is a beginners guide and ventoy is irrelevant for that topic, yet here you are still talking about it.

wow, really wow.

i saw veronica talk about ventoy weirdos on mastodon, and here you are.

yes, thank you

lemmy client? it would be amazing just to have a tui.