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wongogue commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
baq · 4 days ago
> I have no idea how people are still using alt tab in 2025.

Everything is full screen almost always. In a week I need windows tiled for maybe 2h.

wongogue · 4 days ago
This workflow is even easier on a Tiling WM.

These days I use niri which at its core, is just Alt-Tab blown up as your actual desktop.

wongogue commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
phkx · 4 days ago
I switched from MacOS (from a 12 year old first generation retina MBP) to Arch and started out with hyprland. It was really nice initially while I mostly used terminals, a browser or launched Steam. But when I needed to do some paperwork (taxes, stuff involving wide spreadsheets) I often ran into trouble, e.g. when I needed to read some numbers off a pdf quickly. Rearranging the tiling to have everything in appropriate size was rather slow. I often use overlapping windows in such cases, where I only need to see parts of a document and the floating tiles in hyprland just didn’t work for me (not as easy to arrange and so it felt clumsy). I moved on to KDE and that has been working great for half a year now. Maybe I‘m missing some functionality or just didn’t take the time to get used to it - stuff needed to get done ;)
wongogue · 4 days ago
If you want to have tiling but don’t like windows being automatically resized or having to do any resize at all, try niri. It’s a scrolling tiling window manager based on PaperWM. It is in the Arch repository and a KDE plugin called Karousel also exists on the same PaperWM paradigm.
wongogue commented on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux   mark.stosberg.com/univers... · Posted by u/uncircle
cryptonector · 12 days ago
I use ctrl-Ins/shift-Ins and it works in my terminals and in the browser. I've not checked if it works in other apps because ctrl-c/ctrl-v always work in other apps. I'd be happy if ctrl-Ins/shift-Ins just always worked; I don't need innovation here.
wongogue · 12 days ago
Innovation would be to actually have that key on most laptop keyboards.
wongogue commented on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/swyx
neepi · 3 months ago
That seems to be a completely inappropriate use case?

I would not hire a blind artist or a deaf musician.

wongogue · 3 months ago
Even Beethoven?
wongogue commented on Binary Wordle   wordle.chengeric.com/... · Posted by u/eh8
tetris11 · 3 months ago
quite difficult, there aren't many horse anagrams
wongogue · 3 months ago
My trick is to use HORSE as the starting word.
wongogue commented on Firefox tab groups are here   blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
clumsysmurf · 4 months ago
I tried using vertical tabs and tab groups simultaneously, but there seems to be nothing like 'list all tabs' / Recent tab groups, so my tab groups are already lost amongst the other tabs. 'close duplicate tabs' is also missing from vertical tabs.

Since I keep having to go into that menu I just disabled vertical tabs.

wongogue · 4 months ago
When you enable vertical tabs, the main toolbar gains a List All Tabs button at the very right.
wongogue commented on 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make   petapixel.com/2025/01/16/... · Posted by u/wallflower
the__alchemist · 7 months ago
I'm still having a hard time: It's difficult to tell the camera FOV.

I looked it up: it's 1/4 of a degree. The sun and moon are each 1/2 a degree.

So, Andromeda appears half (diameter) of the sun or moon.

wongogue · 7 months ago
Did you ask an AI?
wongogue commented on GitHub Git Operations Are Down   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/hunkins
Over2Chars · 7 months ago
I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.

So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.

That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.

wongogue · 7 months ago
They were using BitKeeper for years but git was created when BitKeeper pulled the rug licensing-wise.

Source: A Git Story from https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/

wongogue commented on iTerm2 critical security release   iterm2.com/downloads/stab... · Posted by u/tjwds
Lammy · 8 months ago
Open source — monkey's paw curls — but spies on you https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amicrosoft%2Fterminal+tele...
wongogue · 8 months ago
That’s anything Microsoft makes these days.
wongogue commented on Guide to mechanical keyboards   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Bluestein
mikae1 · 8 months ago
> The most important thing to look for (imo) is programmability.

This. In Plasma I swap some keys, but when I switch to TTY the keys are not swapped. Frustrating. This should clearly be done at hardware/firmware level.

wongogue · 8 months ago
Have you tried Kmonad?

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