Rather, id be ashamed as it shows i waste alot of fucking time
I think you're just doing it wrong. I have three machines running the same installs for over a year now. The most I have to do is put in update commands.
PC - Lubuntu w/ lxqt + openbox
Laptop - OpenBSD 7.2 -current w/ ratpoison wm
Arm Board - Armbian w/ Cinnamon desktop.
No time wasted on any of these machines.
@curiousthinker
Cheater! You could've installed Gentoo and waste time on computer-related autism like all other cool kids do π
@tiskaan
@curiousthinker
I know man, 't was just a joke.
TBH the amount of computer-related autism grew exponentially when I got back into linux. I spend a lot of time fixing things to make them work the way I want. Maybe that's wasting time, but when I was using Mac OS X or Windows I was using that valuable time on being frustrated. Or yelling at computers. Or hitting them π
Because when you can't fix it you can only learn to live with it. Maybe that's better, I dunno π€·
@tiskaan
@tiskaan It's true usually. But I'm just that kind of person who always goes on tinkering with stuff, it's not necessary technical, I spend a lot of time choosing proper fonts or colours. It's purely psychological, sometimes you have to tell yourself: "That's good enough, do something else". On the other hand, if you don't feel motivated to do what you think is more useful, you'll just procrastinate in some other way. And I have fun "wasting" that time, so who cares π
@curiousthinker
@tiskaan
Last week I've spent 20 minutes on patching imv so it's closed when you click the middle mouse button. I like using tut to browse Fedi, it's a tui app and images are opened with imv and I wanted to use mouse only to navigate (yeah, using TUI app with mouse only π€ͺ).
I could've found another way, like another program or keep using keyboard. But it wasn't hard, none of the linux stuff is particularly hard, I grew up using it and I've got decades of experience, so why not?
@curiousthinker
tut? sounds interesting.
tbh i just want to use unix-derivatives for aesthetics mostly lol.
theirs also the minor positive of adding it to my CV and perhaps improving my studying workflow as undergrad mathematician lol but i doubt its effect is very big.
@tiskaan tut's definitely worth checking out. Edit config file right away to enable mouse support and other cool features that might be disabled by default. And if you care about aesthetics, it's themable. Default theme didn't blend well with my environment so I changed the colours. Once you get accustomed to it, you'll like it. Despite being TUI, it's fully functional, but of course it has to rely on external programs for audio/vids/pics.
@curiousthinker
@tiskaan If you use Matrix, I also recommend gomuks β it's also TUI and written in Go. It can even display images β well, previews, using colored characters.
These TUI apps are so cool that I came to relying mostly on them. They might, unlike GUI apps, have a steep learning curve, but once you get around, they are really easy to use. Well, some aren't, e.g. vim, mutt and w3m, but tut, gomuks, amfora and cmus are pretty straightforward IMO.
