Hannah Montana Linux

mpd for me

I use emptty and herbsluft.

VS Code has dev containers, which can be nice.

But honestly, this is all overboard. Not sure what language you’re working in, but this is what virtual environments are for. For instance in Python, you can use a tool called Poetry.

I avoided containers for a long time, too. But they truly are game changing.

Nice.

I like a combo of FLAC + mpd/ncmpcpp, and running everything through Picard for tagging.

When I’m on the go (car or foot) I use a Hiby R4 DAP with VLC, and the collection translates flawlessly.

Also, scrobble all the things to libre.fm

That’s fair. Though “simple” for me is actually having meticulously sorted and tagged media. That way it displays reliably and beautifully in most any player.

most of my music files don’t even have any metadata

How can you live that way?

I didn’t make autorandr.

I like it, having migrated from previously using lemonbar.

Docs say “sort-of kind-of” it seems.

I’ve personally been using polybar for the last 2 years. A combination of the default modules, and then some custom scripts I’ve written.

I think that’s out of style. I think most people are using their bar to display the basics, and then just view detailed system info in terminal.

People still use Conky?

Such a little detail, but makes me so happy.

I’m unfamiliar with KISS. I don’t really distro hop, since what I use has satisfied all my needs to date.

Debian for my daily workstation. Minimal terminal-only install, and then I piece together my environment.

For smaller, headless applications I like Alpine. Containerized projects, VPS, etc.

The best crash course I received was when I needed to translate my startup scripts into systemd services. The hands-on learning was priceless.

You’re asking the wrong question. The question is, “why not test drive a BSD installation, regardless?”

(my files are in one big folder, so albums are jumbled)

This doesn’t give you anxiety?