“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”

• Alpine Linux: Immutable root with atomic upgrades (wiki article, not an official how-to)
• Alpine Linux: Alpine Local Backup (lbu) (run everything in memory)

nano -m <file> or set mouse in your nanorc

and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus

as others have mentioned, a window manager is one component of a desktop environment – under ideal conditions, a desktop environment collects and integrates a whole set of packages (both primary and supporting), unifying functional aspects as well as look-and-feel – whereas people starting with a window manager add in tools where working for them takes priority over working with other tools

• minimizing your desktop environment
  • Gnome and KDE
  • Xfce
  • LXDE and LXQt
• tiling extensions to existing desktops
  • Pop Shell, Tiling Shell, PaperWM for Gnome
  • (I know KDE has an equivalent, don’t know what it’s called)
  • can get simple half- and quarter-tiling in Xfce just through hotkeys
• switching out window managers in existing desktop environments
  • LXDE typically used Openbox
  • LXQt is pretty much window manager agnostic – distros commonly add Openbox, KWin or Xfwm – Tsujan seems favorable towards LabWC
  • Regolith packages a Gnome desktop with either i3 (Xorg) or Sway (Wayland) as the window manager
• starting with a window manager
  • can either start straight from tty or rely on a desktop manager
    • supporting apps usually handled by whatever autostart feature the window manager provides
  • stacking/floating – most traditional choice is often Openbox (Xorg) but looks like LabWC (Wayland) is continuing its legacy
  • tiling
    • tiling window managers tend to rely a LOT more on keyboard hotkeys and less on mouse usage
    • Xorg – HUGE selection, all down to how much work you want to put in and how large a community there is to help you out
    • Wayland – currently at the top are Sway (continuing i3’s tradition) and River (trying to grab the Awesome fans)
  • getting a window manager up and running is only one part of the equation
    • obvious next steps include choosing a file manager, an image viewer, a document reader, a video player, a web browser
    • less obvious is the behind-the-scenes apps – seat management, policy kit, clipboard handling, notifications, app launchers, desktop manager

such a weird dichotomy in Windows – secure kernel space and privacy-nightmare user space … “we’re the only ones allowed to steal your data”

NOT a fork of Linux, but Redox is aiming for a Unix-like OS based on Rust – but even with “source compatibility” with Linux/BSD and drivers being in userspace, my guess would be hardware drivers are still going to be a big speed bump

Firefox *might* be *thinking* about bringing back webapps: How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?

another vote for Lua – lua5.4 is available for all 8 Alpine architectures, tiny installed size (120–200 kB) (and Alpine package only installs two files)

just point it out to Vance

“douche”

and not Zilla Slab (which even had an opentype feature to replace “Mozilla” with “Moz://a”)

doesn’t help when you have “Arch BTW” types that like the mystique that myth gives them

Stage 1 Gentoo installs

Why? Why not?

Currently running Debian Stable, but in the process of switching over to Alpine (yes, Alpine on the desktop). The lightweight, stripped-down feel calls to me and I like the little BSD-isms thrown in. musl might present problems down the road, but a lot can be bypassed by using flatpaks. Also using the change as incentive to try out Wayland and LabWC (bringing back that Openbox goodness). Kinda enjoying the process of piecing stuff together rather than trying to pare it down afterwards.

parted -s or parted --script – never prompt the user

tOo BiG tO fAiL

EPA issues rare emergency ban on pesticide that damages fetuses

(no, not that Shapiro, the other Shapiro)

telling the aliens their equivalent of eat glue and mix cocktails from bleach …