If I hand write bash scripts, or for those single binary downloads, they’ll go into ~/bin. ~/.local is already used by a ton of packages. This helps a ton when it comes to backups or for just finding where I put stuff.
My ~/.local is 283 GB, it’s where podman/docker/etc put containers, it may as well be a system managed folder at that point. My ~/bin is only 120 MB and is a lot simpler to backup/restore/sync to other desktops.
I keep a list on my backup partition:
$ cat packages.list
appimagelauncher
base-devel
aws-cli
aws-session-manager-plugin
bat
bob
direnv
discord
docker-compose
dog
dotnet-sdk
erdtree
eza
fastfetch
github-cli
httpie
k9s
krita
kubectx
lazygit
mariadb-clients
megacmd
minikube
mpd
mtr
mumble
nvtop
obs-studio
ollama-rocm
qalculate-gtk
restic
siege
speedtest-cli
steam
terraform
tig
timeshift-autosnap
tree-sitter
virt-manager
virt-viewer
yazi
yq
ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd
ttf-liberation
ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k
ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols
ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common
ttf-roboto
wine
wine-gecko
wine-mono
winetricks
playerctl
php
php-gd
php-sodium
streamdeck-ui
speedtest-cli
zoxide
zsh
ripgrep
fd
dry-bin
kitty
xdotool
tmux
tmux-plugin-manager
sublime-text-4
trash-cli
It also has a good cli interface for mass processing via scripts.
I’m not saying you’re entirely wrong, but holy crap does that ever come off as a whiny and entitled sentiment.
I have a 3090 in one machine and a 7900XTX it my primary desktop. Pretending AMD “works fine and has no issues” is pure hogwash. When I primarily ran the 3090, I had no issues other than than the same standard ones I had with AMD (tearing in Xorg without picom, hardware playback in Youtube, etc).
Every person who parrots “AMD good Nvidia bad” is the same type that believes “if it ain’t open source, it sucks”, and usually is in the “I run some gaming focused, Windows-like distro so I can play my non-open source games” camp.
All I want is a simple questionnaire when someone signs up. “Would you run Linux on your desktop if it didn’t have Steam/Proton support?” that would just lock all you XBox lobby/Windows refugees into a LinuxGaming community.
Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?
As long as you’re not using Nvidia.
removed please.
Nothing good ever comes from ‘mainstream adoption’ though.
If it works for somebody else, let them.
If it was just another method of distribution I wouldn’t care. When it becomes the only or preferred method, then I care.
If market share is your only metric for success, then I don’t know what to say. Look at the amount of threads/people stating “this basic thing didn’t work so it had to be the distros, switching distros solved my problem rather than trying to diagnose it”. Your idea of a “net positive” is a group of computer-illiterate Windows users who are now computer-illiterate Linux users, congratulations.
And Gentoo? I remember drobbins from when we were on the Stampede Linux team and he was a dick then, apparently he still is. I wouldn’t touch Gentoo with a 10 foot pole.
Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.
I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.
Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.
I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.
Are… are you pronouncing “Arch” as “ark”? I guess it is a weird word, seeing as “architecture” has a hard C, but “look at the arch on that doorway” does not.
Bawk bawk BU-CAWK! – <chicken>
I have a ZSA Voyager and my escape key is on my left thumb, beside the space key.
For the life of me though I can’t imagine why anyone is still using CAPSLOCK, vbU.
Windows 95b
DK is really small, and doesn’t try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.
I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I’ve grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.
DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in “DE’s” like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
Oh no! Anyways …
Lazygit is amazing. I once had to roll back a feature before a deployment that was spread over 25 commits made during a 2 month period. With lazygit it was easy, with the cli it would have been a real pita. For everything else I pretty much just use the cli with tig and the github-cli.
VSCode is one of the best free editors second only to Neovim (and maybe DoomEmacs), and the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not. Azure runs Linux, and a lot of work has been put into WSL to where it’s pretty darn handy if you’re forced to use company Windows hardware but need to do Dev/SRE tasks.
Windows 11 and Teams though can die in a tire fire.
We get it, you’re a filthy casual.
It’s really not. Python virtualenv, Steam, libvirt, composer, krita, vulkan, zed, zoxide, systemd, etc. ~/.local is the domain of various installed packages, not my hand crafted scripts.