First week: https://piefed.social/c/linux4noobs/p/1977063/i-m-nearing-my-first-full-time-week-on-linux
I thought I was going to write that my second week on Linux was rather boring because I had everything set up and was just working doing everyday tasks.
That was until Friday where I decided it was time to do a distro upgrade (I use openSUSE Tumbleweed, which is a rolling distro). That did not go well. It made me question my distro choice and I even considered hopping to Debian, because it’s stable AF (or so I heard), boring (old packages), widely supported (basically all software has a an official .deb package) and has a large community and multiple resources online. At first I thought I wouldn’t like packages that are a couple years old, but it seems that my whole stack is there, so I wouldn’t notice. Meanwhile, on Tumbleweed I have issues here and there because it’s not as mainstream and is bleeding edge. For the time being, I will migrate to Slowroll soon.
I bought a couple books about Linux, started reading the first one.
I have a project to move my Google Drive, OneDrive and Google Photos somewhere else. Nextcloud seems like the best solution, but I also like Immich as a replacement for Google Photos. That made me think about self-hosting. The Hetzner Storage Share looks nice because it’s a cheap, managed Nextcloud, but not having access to the database feels like vendor lock-in and a possible friction point in the future, so I am thinking of renting a VPS. I also have a pretty beefy old PC at home, but it’s currently damaged (I think either the motherboard or the PSU is dead, I didn’t diagnose yet).
Or Devuan or AntiX.
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Same
Though mine’s been dormant for so long, it wont be so beefy in a couple years.
[Edit, PS:
Week 1 was a good read too.
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How long before you’re trying tiling window managers?
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I never felt the appeal. My understanding is that all windows must be on the screen all the time (but maybe some window managers support workspaces?) and I don’t like that. I like to have my web browser windows big, same as my IDE. I have 34’’ 1440p monitor and it’s too small for me to fit all the windows :)
Tiling and almost all have workspaces as a big feature, also I recently switched to niri, as I don’t like vaxry for obv reasons, and it seems to have all the benefits of a tiling wm, but you have infinite space as it scrolls to the right infinitely
In most tiling window managers I have both tabbing and fullscreen. Which in my use, tends be fullscreen most of the time. Switching workspaces with a keybind’s instant, contrast to the faff of alt-tabbing or moving windows around with the mouse. It’s just one more thing to get out of the way of brain ideas coming to fruition. ;)
Can always have windows floating/stacked in most tiling window managers too.