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mmgutz commented on Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

skayvr · 5 months ago

My progression has been st -> kitty -> ghostty. I wanted to love st, but found too many unpolished corners. Kitty was great, but it felt like the exact opposite of st. Very large and opinionated. ghostty, at least originally, was new and something between st and kitty. With claude code I wonder where the landscape of personalized software will land. st and others may be on to something in this era.

mmgutz · 5 months ago

[foot](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) is an excellent st alternative on wayland.

mmgutz commented on Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

GuinansEyebrows · 5 months ago

> Kitty terminal can essentially replace a big part of a linux desktop environment, if you want it to. It's infinitely customizable AND has own opinions at the same time.

i'm interested in this idea. can you expand on that? what functionality are you replacing? i don't currently use a DE and i get along pretty well doing most of my work in alacritty and firefox-esr. occasionally i drop into pcmanfm if i need a visual file browser, and i use feh to preview images.

mmgutz · 5 months ago

I'm on wayland. Kitty can be used as a layershell window. So you can build panels, taskbars, etc if you were so inclined. For example, you want fastfetch or htop as a live desktop background? Kitty can do that.

mmgutz commented on KDE is now my favorite desktop kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

sirwhinesalot · 5 months ago

We now live in a world where KDE looks nicer, more professional, and more consistent than the latest macOS. I don't know how that happened, and KDE isn't even particularly nice looking, but here we are.

For many years now KDE has focused on polish, bug fixing and "nice-to-have" improvements rather than major redesigns, and it paid off.

mmgutz · 5 months ago

To be fair, "more consistent" if you only use KDE apps. Once you start adding other Linux apps, you end up with a motley crue of GTK 3, GTK 4, QT 5, QT 6, Electron apps with some dark, some light and everywhere in between. Consistency doesn't exist on any OS.

mmgutz commented on Jeena's Hyprland Demo tube.jeena.net/w/2EpbXJnM... · Posted by u/jeena

3836293648 · 5 months ago

Having tried Niri, it's probising but very much not ready for primetime yet. And extremely miserable to use without a trackpad, as opposed to all other tiling WMs that are keyboard first.

mmgutz · 5 months ago

As someone who spends most of his time in nvim and TUIs (yazi, lazydocker, termusic, tmux in ssh ...), Niri is as keyboard centric as you want. Mine is configured to use vim keys.

mmgutz commented on Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/transpute

PhilipRoman · 7 months ago

>N100 based computer draw 9W at idle

That number seems suspicious. Right now my i5-6500T server is idling at <5W and an N100 is supposed to be even more efficient.

mmgutz · 7 months ago

Can confirm 8-9w idle for my N100 homelab server having 1 NVMe SSD, 1 SATA SSD, 16GB RAM.

mmgutz commented on Dagger: A shell for the container age dagger.io/blog/dagger-she... · Posted by u/gk1

zamalek · a year ago

> I've found the Nix ecosystem to be lacking, missing packages, wrongly built packages

This is an interesting problem you've faced, their marketing claim is that they have the most comprehensive catalog of packages (and I'm inclined to believe it). I very rarely run into broken packages, and that's usually resolved by using a stable release for that specific package - and it's not like my usage of packages is lightweight (7292 lines of nix config). That's on NixOS (and Silverblue, and Ubuntu) at least.

mmgutz · a year ago

That's on NixOS, but on other distros there are issues. When I tried nix last year, installing alacritty, for example, required an opengl wrapper. Neovim couldn't compile plugins without environment hackery.

Things just work with pacman or dnf.

mmgutz commented on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed eggnog.ai/entertimeportal... · Posted by u/samplank2

samplank2 · a year ago

Don't think so, which shorts are you talking about?

mmgutz · a year ago

In the shorts, you wake up as some famous person in history: Cleopatra, Caesar ... It's a first person POV of their life and surroundings. They're AI vids.

mmgutz commented on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed eggnog.ai/entertimeportal... · Posted by u/samplank2

mmgutz · a year ago

This looks like those youtube shorts I've been seeing. Did you guys create those?

mmgutz commented on The Future Is Niri ersei.net/en/blog/niri... · Posted by u/mattjhall

qalmakka · a year ago

I just can't wrap my head around tiling WMs (and I've been doing Linux since a _long_ time ago). I just don't see how usable they can be when you have a "small" screen to be honest.

mmgutz · a year ago

Tilers can remove Gnome's overly whitespaced decorations, probably saving 10% in screen pixels alone.

If you want to maximize all windows on run, niri can do that with a rule. It then becomes like a monocle layout where you can use swipes/keyboard/scroll wheel to navigate between maximized windows. I don't know of any DE that will run all windows maximized by default.

Too bad I no longer have an 800x600 netbook. Niri would be perfect for it.

mmgutz commented on The Future Is Niri ersei.net/en/blog/niri... · Posted by u/mattjhall

75902846575 · a year ago

We're calling 400MB RAM usage ultra-lightweight now? OpenBox needs 7MB of RAM, and there are WMs that are even lighter on memory requirements.

> Compare that to Gnome+paperwm (1.6GB)

Anything seems lightweight if you compare it to a DE well known for its bloat.

mmgutz · a year ago

Niri doesn't use 400MB by itself, that's the entire memory footprint of everything running. In comparison, OpenBox with all the utilities needed for wallet, ssh agent etc is in the 450MB range on my box. That's probably due X11 vs Wayland.

A minimal Niri functional environment is similar to IceWM in RAM usage. I used to run antiX in VMs.

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