For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

  • cizra@lemm.ee
    5·
    5 months ago

    BtrFS has Stuff.

    • Subvolumes, which enable you to share the same /home between Linux distros
    • Snapshots that are an great for
      • freezing the FS during off-machine backups: create a snapshot, rsync the snapshot not the main FS, drop the snapshot
      • transient backups. Will executing this thing hose my system? If no, drop the snapshot.
    • ability to pool different disks into a single FS
    • and so much more.

    Fun story: once I needed to do something (resize? can’t recall) a partition that happened to be in use. The solution involved smbmounting a network disk, losetup helping transform that thing into a virtual disk, then migrating the root FS there, recreating partitions, all while running the rootfs on that thing. Thus, pooling can bu useful.

    By the way, what does Zsh have over bash that you find useful?

    • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee
      4·
      5 months ago

      Not OP , but regarding zsh, it has much better auto completion, and suggestion support. Additionally you can theme your prompt much more, see for example powerlevel10k

    • Daniel QuinnEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Honestly, the only btrfs feature that interests me is the snapshotting, as the current state of my backups is rather sub-par. There’s just a lot of inertia involved in adopting it when ext4 Just Works™. Maybe next time I install a new system I’ll give it a shot.

      As for zsh, I rather like the general “intelligence” I see on others’ machines: the way it autocorrects typos, draws a navigable menu for tab completions complete with colour highlighting… it looks lovely. I’ve been a Bash user for 25 years though, and muscle memory like smashing the tab key to get what I want is a hard habit to break.