I've been trying to do this, but I told myself before I did, I would get my macbook in good working order mechanically, so finally fix the sticky key spacebar and then:

• actually bookmark any important tabs, make those social media posts about anything else, and send those links to people I meant to, so I can close ALL my tabs
• make sure ALL of my data is actually backed up to nextcloud, and also at least somewhat organized so I can actually find it again when I move to asahi
• remove all software I don't use, and make notes of either open source alternatives, if needed

So far I fixed the spacebar on my macbook, and let me tell you, it is a delicate pain in the ass. You need like, a playing card or an index card, and a tooth pick, and a tooth brush, and 99% IPA. Also, get this: there's a QR code under the spacebar that is alcohol soluble D: So if you get any alcohol on the QR code, you'll smear the ink all over everything ​

Anyway, now that that pain is over, I'm onto closing all these tabs I don't need, but boy is that also pain, becuase a lot of it is stuff I wanna buy, but can't justify breaking the budget on right now D:

I've done it! I've closed every non-essential tab! Now all that's left is to get all my data into nextcloud, and then make sure any software I have is either backed up or removed or whatever. SO. CLOSE.

Switching the OS of your daily driver is pain, but worth it when you're going harder on FOSS! I don't want to get rid of this laptop, because there's nothing actually wrong with it. It's got 32GB of memory. It has a really nice screen. It has the keyboard I love. It has 2TB of storage. It's literally the nicest laptop I've ever owned, and it was free. I have to make this work, but I just can't tolerate Apple anymore.

This is harder than switching from samsung to fairphone though...

OK, I've cleaned out all the apps I don't need anymore, and backed everything up that was related to them. I cleared out my Downloads folder (a massive feat, honestly), and now I'm going through my home directory one last time to make sure there's nothing I wouldn't be ok losing, and I find a file with no extension just called shrek from 2023. I cat it and it's just:

I don't actually know what I expected...

Its happening! Its finally installing Debian bananas! Its at 70.6% now. 

BTW, I took the opportunity to take everything off of icloud and move it to nextcloud. Very very happy about that 

#debianBananas #asahiLinux

OK, almost everything is working. Things not working so good:

• tree-sitter broke.... but just for python? In neovim, if I run :TSInstall python it says it can't find tree-sitter, but it shows as installed via brew 🤔 edit: this had nothing to do with debian bananas. See further down in thread.

• keyboard is wonky. I'm not sure what to select to get it to pick up my dutch macbook keyboard correctly? 🤔

• window tiling broken, because I have no idea how to get my apple key to behave how it did in macosx 🤔

I indeed don't see the tree-sitter command in my path... maybe I should install it via apt or something instead of via brew? 🤔

update: uninstalled tree-sitter using brew and then reinstalled via apt using:

Now I can run :TSInstall python in nvim, but it didn't fix my syntax highlighting :(

Another random thing that was kind of annoying was that it kept randomly clicking things on the page while I was typing. To sort of fix this: In KDE, I went into System Settings > Touchpad > Tapping > Uncheck Tap to Click.

That helps a little bit, but is not a perfect solution. While typing this, it still tried to randomly zoom into the page ​

#debianbananas

OK, update, I was wrong to blame Debian bananas for my tree-sitter nvim woes, sorry Debian 🍌​. It's literally because I upgraded neovim and tree-sitter in the process of going to debian bananas and this would have happened regardless. It's a whole thing, but if you're curious, this is now my treesitter.lua:

https://git.smallhack.org/jessebot/dot_files/src/commit/12a9e9d926e053c8fa8ffd4de4ad63e3074d20ef/.config/nvim/lua/user/tree-sitter.lua

#ItWasNotDebianBananas

Fixed window tiling! In KDE, I went to System Systems > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Kwin. Then I searched for "tiling" and remapped all the things to what I'm used to in Spectacle/Rectangle:

• tile left: ctrl+alt+left
• tile right: ctrl+alt+right
• tile up: ctrl+alt+up
• tile down: ctrl+alt+down

That has made my life so much better. I basically never use a second monitor, so tiling across a screen is incredibly important to me ​

#debianbananas #kde_plasma

OK, so what left?

• fix keyboard layout. The key next to my z key on my keyboard is labeled with a tilde and a back-tic, but if I hit, it types a < or with shfit I get a >... which is confusing. To be honest, I basically never used the other on the top right that is supposed to be tilde on US keyboards, because it's... I don't know what that is actually lol it kinda looks like an s with a little circle in the middle? And if you hit shift, you get what looks like a plus sign with an underscore? ​

Either way, I have gotten used to the tilde being next to my z key and I want it back there, so I can remap that other weird key to screenshot.

• no easy way to screenshot, see above.

• zathura not pretty

• have not attempted to setup email or vpn yet

But we're moving! I can see this being a lovely daily driver by Kubecon! ​

#debianbananas #kdeplasma

Zathura is pretty now thanks to this little repo:

https://github.com/dracula/zathura

I'll eventually develop a spacechalk theme for it, but this will get it over the line for now ​