Hmm, yeah, that is interesting. I’d say every native German knows “nix” (as in nothing). Maybe 10% would be aware what a “Nixe” is (female water spirit).
Personally, I wasn’t even aware that there’s a male version. I could’ve guessed what it means, when used in a sentence, but if you asked me without context, I probably would’ve been too thick to figure it out. 🙃
I’ve always seen fans call it “cutting edge” or “leading edge”, as it’s somewhere between other distros with it shipping most feature updates once every six months.
Personally, I prefer something more up-to-date, but at least you don’t typically get stuff in the Fedora repos that’s so out of date, that it’s actively broken.
For example, for $DAYJOB, I need the reuse CLI, which states in its documentation to install it with apt install reuse. On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, that’s just a dumb idea, because the version in the repos is 3 years old and crashes when you go to use it, producing subtly wrong results. That cost us half a day of debugging this week, for no good reason…
“Nix” is in the dictionary. It’s a colloquial version of “nichts”, not a misspelling…
I mean, there’s still some download managers around, for example:
But yeah, I imagine this functionality is now largely integrated into the apps that want to trigger the download. The advanced downloading functionality can just be a library and then the respective apps just need to strap a UI on top.
The only real advantage of a dedicated app, is that the other app’s APK size can be smaller, which isn’t too big of a deal anymore.
Personally, I found it worth playing around with. I cared less than I thought where I had to move my eyeballs to, once I didn’t have to make the decision anymore.
And automatic tiling can also enable workflows that just don’t make sense with manual tiling, for example master-stack-layout where basically one window takes up half the screen and the other windows share the other half, and then you swap out which one’s the big window as you see fit.
But I also wouldn’t have written all that, if I didn’t have a way that you can easily try it out: You can add automatic tiling into KDE Plasma via Kwinscripts. Personally, I’m using Krohnkite: https://store.kde.org/p/2144146
(Easiest to install by going through the System Settings…)
Personally, I’ve kind of given up all structure.
I have a script that creates a Markdown file with basically just the date in the file name and then it opens it in my text editor. All Markdown files are in one big folder. Notes, todos etc. all go into the there.
So long as a file is open in my text editor, it’s actively relevant. Afterwards I’ll use full-text search (like
grep -iR), if I need something again.I will often specify a title in the Markdown, but mainly because it’s a great place for keywords to make the file easier to find again. It’s also my way of tagging the files.
I mainly like this way of working, because I spend very little time on inputting information, which I do way more often than retrieving information (at least for the files which aren’t actively open in my text editor).
But I’ve also never used a structured approach for more than a few months without it turning into chaos, where full-text search is the only option anyways.
Maybe this would be different, if my tasks were more structured. Your mileage may vary. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯