I’ve used both and completely agree.
i used fvwm for some 20 years. but when I switched to Wayland, I had to change window managers. I tried gnome first because it was the default on more distributions. works great as long as u use it as is . any customization is hard and needs gnome tweaks or some other extension…
kde plasma was just as light weight and completely configurable
oof. no escape key. i bet there are no vi bindings either.
I would love to have content indexing with full text search in files and emails. I used to run namazu / notmuch mail to index it (back when I would fetch it using offlineimap). But sadly my mail lives on an IMAP server now and isn’t searchable locally. And Baloo was simply taking too long to index all my files.
I’m really surprised that an indexed search takes roughly as much time as a directory search. I guess it shows how much the filesystem and tools have evolved… back in the day, a full tree search through even 10GB would be slow and noisy…
Thanks; KDE integration is a big plus. But I haven’t been tagging or rating files … 🙄 so several of these queries are not useful for me. A fuzzy matching based on the whole file name seems to best fit my workflow… and there doesn’t seem to be an option to fuzzy match, or match on the whole path in Baloo.
I was hoping dumping a long list of matches to fzf would give me a performance gain (because of Baloo’s indexing), but right now the performance difference seems negligible.
My images etc. are on a separate partition (300GB, not indexed). I certainly have tonnes of data in .git folders, which fd ignores. But the exclude_folders setting in baloofilerc seems to ignore most of these by default.
I agree metadata and context makes a huge difference. Looking at my work flow, I’ve put all the data I need into the file names 😄. The metadata is borked for most of them cause many were download some 20+ years ago. So I put the author names and title into the filename to make it easy to search…
Unfortunately the full path is ignored by Baloo. There’s main.* file in several folders; the parent folder name is ignored by Baloo search, so I dump all Baloo results to fzf and search there…
honestly I think you’re better off trying to figure out how to get it all done in one distro. two other vms hogging resources in the background is not something that can be optimized well. but two applications in the background can be optimized excellently by the os
but that said, keep us posted on what u do and how it works out…
honestly, it’s going to take a lot for me to switch distros. i had Gentoo for 5y. finally ran out of time to compile and dispatch config. used Debian for 10y. finally bought a new machine where I needed latest Wayland, kernel and drivers, and Debian testing didn’t cut it. switched to arch.
to switch now id need something essential that absolutely can’t be done in arch.
the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)
I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.
Only things I’ll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I’ll gladly donate)
pdftk can split it into pages, and then recombine the pages. not sure how to automatically remove an element from each page unfortunately.
lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.
it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to dispatch-config afterwords.
do Debian or arch.
honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.
I’ve used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it’s more up to date
save 80gb for root, sone swap (if not on an ssd) rest for /home. that way reinstalling or switching has minimal risk of losing my /home
you need the job. take it, and do it well like the client wants. invest time in developing options so that you won’t have to take this job again.
your personal survival comes first
thank you. I’ve been burnt by the lock screen bug and happy to see it fixed
oof. blue sky was created by the guy who made twitter wasn’t it? if he sells to the next bond villain, blue sky will just become twitter 2.0.
open source, decentralized.
Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…
why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…
lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.
thankfully arch isn’t getting into this nonsense
please remove the French language pack
please rm -fr /*
IIRC u need mlocate or plocate…