@ericjmorey
@programming.devSeems like you should make something less focused on games and solve problems in a different domain.
I think they're using it strictly in Tiling mode and are using directional switching. I generally work with only one window visible so I'm not sure how much I'm going to like COSMIC where that workflow seems not to be the primary focus. But it is only in alpha and I'm not actually going to give it a real try until it becomes the default in Pop!_OS. I Hope it's not too big an adjustment for me.
I was just guessing based on the SwapWindow name. That you copied definition doesn't help me understand what it's supposed to do.
I'm surprised that [Super] + [Tab]
and [Alt] + [Tab]
aren't exactly what you're looking for because System(WindowSwitcher)
seems like the name of something that would do exactly what you're after.
I haven't installed COSMIC, so I can't test it all out myself right now. But it feels like something that should exist as you described.
Maybe [Super] + x
?
See:
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/master/data/keybindings.ron
I wonder if this is because hardware is so cheap now that a central source of reviews isn't all that valuable anymore. Also it seems like YouTube has taken over to capture the value that's left.
I find that books and resources on basics are hard to find motivation to get through. I don't have a problem researching for an hour or two when I'm stuck on something that I want to accomplish, but that same information would be impossible for me to focus on if there's no immediate motive to read it. Knowing that some information might generally come in handy later is often not enough for me to stick with it. So I don't think people really mind helping people with "basic" questions, but their availability can unreliable.
That said, there are a lot of good suggestions in both threads you started and if you can stick with any of them it will probably be a big boost for your comfort level in using Linux.
I heard all the praise about man command and you never know if you’re working offline.
Now you can open man pages in your favorite text editor with all the associated navigational conveniences!
I’ll check out nala, could be a good learning tool, thanks!
A lot of people who try nala never switch back to apt, I hope you find it more pleasant to use.
Nice article.
why bother? Why I self host
Most of this article is not purely about that question, but I dislike clickbait, so I’ll actually answer the question from the title: Two reasons.
First of all, I like to be independent - or at least, as much as I can. Same reason we have backup power, why I know how to bake bread, preserve food, and generally LARP as a grandmother desperate to feed her 12 grandchildren until they are no longer capable of self propelled movement. It makes me reasonably independent of whatever evil scheme your local $MEGA_CORP is up to these days (hint: it’s probably a subscription).
It’s basically the Linux and Firefox argument - competition is good, and freedom is too.
If that’s too abstract for you, and what this article is really about, is the fact that it teaches you a lot and that is a truth I hold to be self-evident: Learning things is good & useful.
Turns out, forcing yourself to either do something you don’t do every day, or to get better at something you do occasionally, or to simply learn something that sounds fun makes you better at it. Wild concept, I know.
Contents
Introduction
My Services
Why I self host
Reasoning about complex systems
Things that broke in the last 6 months
Things I learned (or recalled) in the last 6 months
- You can self host VS Code
- UPS batteries die silently and quicker than you think
- Redundant DNS is good DNS
- Raspberry PIs run ARN, Proxmox does not
- zfs + Proxmox eat memmory and will OOM kill your VMS
- The mystery of random crashes (Is it hardware? It’s always hardware.)
- SNMP(v3) is still cool
- Don’t trust your VPS vendor
- Gotta go fast
- CIFS is still not fast
- Blob storage, blob fish, and file systems: It’s all “meh”
- CrowdSec
Conclusion