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Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.

I still remember the time I managed to unwillingly run two DE at the same time simultaneously. The screen was refreshing between gnome and kde at 50Hz. It was tripping.

There's the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.

What do modern devs need more than ttys for if they're just shipping ai generated code that nobody takes the time to review properly?

This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.

So therapeutic some days......

First time using hyprland with cachyos: wow it's so productive, I love it!

After one month I log in after a yay and everything is broken. I waste a full day adapting the config from 0.44 to 0.45. Wow that was worth, I love it.

Another month passes, and again it's broken to 0.50

I just gave up

Can't they just put a discontinuation warning for a couple releases to let people adapt their config instead of suddenly having the surprise of booting to a broken wm?

This is the greatest truth of being a computer person. Our shit is also broken, just in ways you'd never heard of.

my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.

• We tried setting up hyprland with Arch
• Used an older guide, updated and translated it to the newest standard, learning about the unique scripting
• Get almost everything working
• Actually loved the feel of the ui and did get used to using terminal for almost everything
• Things started falling apart
• Steam started fucking up, everything was going horrible.
• joined the support discord, found problem doing good over more :)
• Update? Oo oki!
• Hyprland: hmm nice fully custom set up you have here, would be a shame if someone were to change all the ui script you literally just learned :)
• :(
• Back on KDE + Cachy OS as we didn’t want to fight with our computer anymore, it’s good, great even, but… missing the window management of Hyprland now.
• Don’t get us wrong, we’re very happy with KDE! It’s just… that window management 🥺
• if only we could get that in KDE

I am a computer person. My philosophy is probably a common one, if it works don’t touch it.

Guys and gals, please use Niri. It has animations, blur and wayland.

Never crashed in my one year of using it.

I tried to get on the Window Manager hype train — I know it is productive and shit and much more efficient than traditional desktops — but dropped it because it just needs to be configured endlessly and yet I still end up using the mouse when I am just laid back on my chair eating a banana. Installed KDE Plasma and stuck with it ever since. Everything doesn’t need to be text files and command line. A bit of user friendly GUI in life doesn’t hurt.

That's why, as a computer nerd, I use a non modified Linux Mint.

At least for me, Linux people are never content with their system.

There's always something new to try...

This is precisely why I use NixOS. I have almost my entire configuration as "code" (data structures more like, but what's the difference any way?), such that when I break something, I can just undo my commits and go back to a working version (and the OS itself retrains several snapshots, so I can always pick the previous one.

And with LLMs the bar to do things, with my nix configuration (nixcfg), has lowered to the ground. Throw in a few videos from Vimjoyer and you got a stew going.

Gentoo Linux user here. Sometimes when I open my laptop's lid, the hard drive disconnects

Might be worth doing a bit of research on the associations surrounding Hyprland https://drewdevault.com/blog/Hyprland-toxicity/

When I used to work at Microsoft I had an uncanny knack for making installs not work. Things that just simply worked for other people would die with errors and bluescreens. I started to think I emitted a weird bioelectric field or something. But this only happened at that company, and strangely only when I worked on the premises.

No joke, I was getting tired of the constant breaking changes in Hyprland, so when I learned about the Lua update I just said fuck it and moved to Sway.
I wanted the "Debian Stable" of Wayland WMs and figured Sway was it.

I keep spare computers around just in case I break something but still need to be productive

I've recently moved everything over to CachyOS after a Windows 10 LTSC security update failed to install multiple times.

I'm actually really surprised by how well everything works, including my nvidia GPU, microphone, and drawing tablet. The only thing that's not working rn is my Canon printer but that might be more of my own skill issue with using CUPS and CAPT and can be remedied by emailing myself a PDF and printing from my phone.

I was fully expecting to fuck my shit up forever.

EDIT: To be clear, Windows would occasionally crash on me and take forever to start back up. Linux is running much better.