Mastodawn

@jloc0 Yeah, after that first go I went all in on OpenBox and landed on ArchLabs, where I met @nwgpiotr, who was doing his first Sway magic. And he picked up on Hyprland very quickly. Since I wanted to go in on Wayland I used his toolkit pretty extensively, mostly with Hyprland. That's how I ran into you; the rest is greybeard history 😂
#archlabs #nwg

Mark 3d ago

@jloc0
Bug hunting 101: for some obscure reason Spectacle wasn't working in Slim 6.7. (Re)install tesseract and leptonica (available in your repo anyway), all good!
It's always the user that effs something up 😆
#slackware #archlabs

Mark 5d ago

It's difficult to grasp, perhaps. But that you build your own dwm, and just schlepp it around with you, remains unbeatable.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

Mark May 9

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

Mark May 4

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Mark May 3

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Mark May 1

Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

wickedlester Apr 28

#voidlinux #labwc #nowplaying #meshuggah #archlabs

Mark Apr 27

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

wickedlester Apr 24

#dwm #artix #archlabs