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Skipping those I've already used

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42673820

Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali.

Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

  • kiol@discuss.onlineOP
    4·
    19 hours ago

    Just got void submitted. Will add Nix. Window manager preference? Any nix stuff to try?

    • uint8_t@lemmy.ml
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Niri is a joy! Tried it once and never looked back.

      Nix is a wide ecosystem and you have tons of tools to use for your config to your hearts content, so this is a bit tough. Id say: Make your config a flake (its an experimental feature, but it’s a de-facto default), use home manager or GNU stow to organize your .config and home directory, and if you like Nix and plan to stay, look into the dendritic pattern for your config (not the best for someone just testing nix, but for long term it’s a total life-saver)

      Best of luck to you!

      • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        When I was shopping distros to jump ship from winslop, came across niri videos and I was smitten. Having decided to try cachyOS because 1. gaming, 2. Arch with training wheels, 3. Installer has niri option, I went for it.

        I was dual booting with winslop for a week, but that one was cachy with plasma, then seeing I truly do not need winslop anymore, I wipe the whole drive and installed cachy again but this time with niri.

        I use colemak as my keyboard layout, so during the dual boot period I set that as system layout during installation, but that had some problems with games. So when I wiped and reinstall, I just leave qwerty as system default. The cachy installer installed niri with noctalia as its shell

        Well too bad, currently I do not have the understanding nor the inclination to learn how to configure niri and noctalia lol. Even adding colemak was too much. Tbf to myself, it was already 11 pm and I have work the coming morning. I’m glad that another reinstall and having all my needed software restored is o my 10 minutes.

        Tldr, niri noctalia too hard for me now. Will revisit again when I have time to learn by trial by fire.

        Although I have to say that I found a plasma plugin called mousetiler that’s almost exactly like fancyzones. That was the biggest thing I was missing dearly. I don’t have to remember so many keyboard shortcuts lol

        • uint8_t@lemmy.ml
          1·
          16 hours ago

          Yup it is. You configure your whole system by setting options in your config files, using a functional language. It’s hard at first but with time you naturally get used to it

          • kiol@discuss.onlineOP
            1·
            16 hours ago

            Where I got stuck before was in the number of packages that were not actually supported within Nix. I found the documentation very frustrating, but the community very welcoming.