gramgan

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[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To my knowledge, that is controlled by your window manager/DE.

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The people I know in my program (undergrad History) use their computers for little more than Google Chrome (specifically Google’s Office suite), a PDF reader (sometimes also Google Chrome), sometimes Zotero, and sometimes MS Word. We get a lot of Mac’s around here, so one can imagine Microsoft products are not highly relied upon, generally speaking.

Everything’s through the browser nowadays, so I’d say just pick a stable distro, install 2 or three browsers in case something doesn’t work (like Google Docs with Firefox in my experience…), and submit everything as PDF.

Can’t speak much to LibreOffice as I write my papers in Typst (and before that in LaTeX, which got me brownie points with some of the older professors), which I find much faster, easier, and more flexible than WYSIWYG word processors.

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn polybar looks much easier to configure than waybar…

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Fourthing sway, specifically swayfx and (as someone already mentioned) autotiling, both of which are available in the Nix repository without hassle.

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

qutebrowser and Nyxt are both projects I desperately want to be capable of replacing my web browser.

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as rounded corners and easy to use, I’ve had a tremendous time with swayfx for the past few months, which I switched to from Hyprland.

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I used Doom for a while, but it was still slow. I’ve been replacing emacs with more unix-y tools (helix/neovim as editor, yazi for file manager, etc.). I really just miss the design of emacs (the self-documentation, the infinite extensibility, etc.). I hope someday maybe Lem will fill my needs (which I just learned about yesterday).

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

A fine day that will be!

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s my first time hearing of Lem—it looks fantastic. What’s the issue with it on NixOS?

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

The most satisfying part of the NixOS process is deploying to bare metal and watching it work exactly as you intend it to

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Hey!

I’ve wanted something very similar—specifically, a plain-text database. I recently came across GNU recutils, which I haven’t had time to play around with yet, but which seems like it fits the bill (at least for me). There’s a couple YouTube videos on it—I encourage you to check it out!

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