Clap has an entry in their cookbook for a REPL:

• Derive-API: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_cookbook/repl_derive/index.html
• Builder-API: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_cookbook/repl/index.html

Of course, this works best for simple stuff, where you just have individual commands to parse.

For a Python-style REPL with a full-fledged language attached, I would not use that approach.
There’s probably some REPL languages implemented in Rust already out there, where you can look at their approach.

Hmm, seems to work like you want for me. Using Plasma 6.6 with the icons-only task manager…

Should perhaps add that you can generally run Linux distributions off of a USB stick for that first impression.

Just follow a tutorial for how to install Linux and when you see the actual installer on screen, you can just close the installer without installing and then click around in the UI.

It will be slow, because it’s running off that slow USB connection, but otherwise this is pretty much the operating system as it is when fully installed.

I always recommend Oh My Git.

Not quite a direct answer, but I feel like this world view is linked to seeing art primarily as a commodity rather than a way to express emotions.

With expressive art, it doesn’t particularly matter whether you write the millionth poem in a standard rhyme scheme and meter, so long as what you express comes across.
But commodity art is explicitly ‘clean’, it does not carry a message or at least not a particularly complex/interesting message.

And then, yeah, suddenly you ask yourself why would someone look at this particular drawing of a dragon, when there’s been a million drawings of dragons before.

Alt+F3 can also work (possibly in addition to Alt+Space)…

Same. For whatever reason, I kind of hate all cursor themes. I disliked Breeze the least, then thought about how I’d want to change Breeze to improve it, realized that would look much worse, and since then I’ve been content with Breeze.

Always amused me that sudo !! is actually more keypresses (at least on keyboards where typing ! requires holding Shift).

@Dionysus@leminal.space found out that it’s a feature in fish shell, which I can confirm.

Same reason there’s a ScrollLock key on keyboards. Didn’t always have scrollbars and if the application prints more than you can read, you want to pause that…

Yeah, it comes from customizing cars and has a somewhat racist background, but many folks learn the word in the Linux communities and have no idea of any of that…

Apparently, that’s American English. And for whatever reason, it’s the British that are less hoity toity about it:

• “brackets” or round brackets ( )
• square brackets [ ]
• curly brackets { }

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

Yeah, differentiating between multiplications vs. divisions and additions vs. subtractions doesn’t make sense, because they’re the same thing respectively, just written differently.

When you divide by 3, you can also multiply by ⅓.
When you subtract 7, you can also add -7.

There is one quirk to be aware of, though. When people notate a division with a long horizontal line, that implies parentheses around both of the expressions, top and bottom.

Hmm, what distro? I don’t use Krita regularly, but never seen it have lots of desktop files.

I do be on KDE, though, so might also be some KDE-specific fix, I guess…

It’s a mockup I found on image search (from searching “neobrutalism GUI” or the like): https://www.magnific.com/premium-vector/hand-drawn-neo-brutalism-ui-elements-collection_186004756.htm

And yeah, that theme you linked is already pretty cool. Not terribly enamored with the retro aesthetic personally (especially with bad contrast like here), but if that can be done with KDE/Kvantum, then an actual neobrutalist theme, or just one with the papercuts fixed, is likely just as possible…

Well, this kind of design language is actually referred to as “neobrutalism”, so you might find a theme under this name. But from what I’ve seen so far, it’s mostly a thing in web design at this point…

I also always find the minimalism vs. maximalism debate interesting for usability. Lots of minimal designs are so flat that you can’t tell a button from a label or icon.
At the same time, iOS’ new Frutiger theme regularly confuses me with its transparency, e.g. yesterday I saw that the silent-mode notification had a ➋ inside. It was centered and everything. Then the notification went away, but the ➋ stayed, because it was from an app icon behind.

I wish, we could throw out the bad eye candy, like transparency, while keeping the good parts, like 3D buttons and such. I feel like this kind of neo-brutalist UI design isn’t the worst direction to go in:

(This particular example isn’t perfect, like the buttons are flat, while there’s useless shadows around the boxes. But yeah, could just move those shadows to the buttons and it would still look fine.)

cfg_select! looks good. cfg_if! always added so much boilerplate that it rarely reduced complexity, even though it offered a valid solution for when you had a complex condition in one branch and then not() that in the other. It was also annoying that you had to add a dependency for those rare cases.

We did also move away from cfg_if!, though, because IDE tooling would mostly just quit working within the cfg_if! macro call. Will have to see, if that’s better with this compiler built-in, or if the IDE tooling gets updated to support that well.

Oh man, you keep finding these hex values in other places. I assumed the author of this particular theme just made them up, based on what they thought looked good.

And yeah, that is wild to me, that it passes a contrast check. I’m far from having the worst eyesight and still find it needlessly difficult to read.

Yeah, I do customize the themes like that, too, usually also #ffffff for the foreground or vice versa. It would just be nice to not need to maintain my own themes. 🥴