No more paying for Obsidian Sync, no more private GitHub repos for synchronization between devices/OSes.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
No more paying for Obsidian Sync, no more private GitHub repos for synchronization between devices/OSes.
I'm fully aware these are non-problems for most people, though.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'm fully aware these are non-problems for most people, though.
-> And the user doesn't need to know what's IBus and what's Fcitx just to be able type in their language. The need to do that even in major distros is overlooked and dumb. Also Compose key is a thing you have to find in the settings. But you configure it once, and the end result is so much better.
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
-> And the user doesn't need to know what's IBus and what's Fcitx just to be able type in their language. The need to do that even in major distros is overlooked and dumb. Also Compose key is a thing you have to find in the settings. But you configure it once, and the end result is so much better.
Linux does have its problems here. Some programs won't work with Fcitx or IBus for some reason, you may have to provide some environment variables (in the past I had to, now not anymore), or to install a package. ->
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Linux does have its problems here. Some programs won't work with Fcitx or IBus for some reason, you may have to provide some environment variables (in the past I had to, now not anymore), or to install a package. ->
TL;DR in Windows typing in multiple languages is a pain, entering special characters is a pain, and it's ironic you understand how much of a pain it is only after using a "non-user-friendly OS".
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
TL;DR in Windows typing in multiple languages is a pain, entering special characters is a pain, and it's ironic you understand how much of a pain it is only after using a "non-user-friendly OS".
In Windows I'd have to use AutoHotKey which would be fine, but it makes some software freeze for some reason, so I have to press ctrl+shift an indefinite amount of times instead of relying on muscle memory.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In Windows I'd have to use AutoHotKey which would be fine, but it makes some software freeze for some reason, so I have to press ctrl+shift an indefinite amount of times instead of relying on muscle memory.
I made an extension for better control of keyboard layout with commands in Gnome: extensions.gnome.org/extension/65...
Is this a not-very-user-friendly territory? Maybe, but it's not hard, and Windows doesn't give me even that.
Is this a not-very-user-friendly territory? Maybe, but it's not hard, and Windows doesn't give me even that.
Input source D-Bus interface - GNOME Shell Extensions
extensions.gnome.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I made an extension for better control of keyboard layout with commands in Gnome: extensions.gnome.org/extension/65...
Is this a not-very-user-friendly territory? Maybe, but it's not hard, and Windows doesn't give me even that.
Is this a not-very-user-friendly territory? Maybe, but it's not hard, and Windows doesn't give me even that.
If you use KDE, it's natural to use Fcitx. You can just bind fcitx commands to shortcuts like Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F4, or any really, and that's it. Gnome has a better integration with IBus, and while iirc you can still use commands with IBus, they won't change keyboard layout indicator.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you use KDE, it's natural to use Fcitx. You can just bind fcitx commands to shortcuts like Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F4, or any really, and that's it. Gnome has a better integration with IBus, and while iirc you can still use commands with IBus, they won't change keyboard layout indicator.
-> especially if you're in an online game. You have to press a shortcut an indefinite amount of times, and you have to look which keyboard layout you select. Ideally you would have 1 shortcut per keyboard layout. On Linux there are different "input method frameworks", so configuration depends.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
-> especially if you're in an online game. You have to press a shortcut an indefinite amount of times, and you have to look which keyboard layout you select. Ideally you would have 1 shortcut per keyboard layout. On Linux there are different "input method frameworks", so configuration depends.
The input itself is okay on both Windows and Linux, but Linux may require installing additional packages, like ibus-mozc, and that's a minus for Linux. But then I end up with 4 keyboard layouts on Windows and 3 on Linux. Any number of keyboard layouts more than 2 makes switching them tedious, ->
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The input itself is okay on both Windows and Linux, but Linux may require installing additional packages, like ibus-mozc, and that's a minus for Linux. But then I end up with 4 keyboard layouts on Windows and 3 on Linux. Any number of keyboard layouts more than 2 makes switching them tedious, ->
Compose key is configurable, you can bind it to right Alt, Caps Lock or whatever.
This ability to enter diacritics easily lets me avoid having extra keyboard layouts for some slavic languages I rarely type in, but on Windows that's +1 keyboard layout minimum.
And then there's Japanese.
This ability to enter diacritics easily lets me avoid having extra keyboard layouts for some slavic languages I rarely type in, but on Windows that's +1 keyboard layout minimum.
And then there's Japanese.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Compose key is configurable, you can bind it to right Alt, Caps Lock or whatever.
This ability to enter diacritics easily lets me avoid having extra keyboard layouts for some slavic languages I rarely type in, but on Windows that's +1 keyboard layout minimum.
And then there's Japanese.
This ability to enter diacritics easily lets me avoid having extra keyboard layouts for some slavic languages I rarely type in, but on Windows that's +1 keyboard layout minimum.
And then there's Japanese.
On Linux you usually have a way to enter any UTF-8 character like Ctrl+Shift+u+2014 for em dash. Seems longer, but you can enter any character. What's better, there's a compose key, that allows you to press <compose>---. Or any diacritic with a quite intuitive key combo like <compose>cc for č.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
On Linux you usually have a way to enter any UTF-8 character like Ctrl+Shift+u+2014 for em dash. Seems longer, but you can enter any character. What's better, there's a compose key, that allows you to press <compose>---. Or any diacritic with a quite intuitive key combo like <compose>cc for č.
I know em dash is a meme nowadays, but how do you type it in Windows? Alt+0151 is the combo, which is based on Windows-1252 encoding. That's right, in Unicode era you rely on some old encoding codes to enter special characters if it has them, you use third-party tools, or you just copy from Word.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I know em dash is a meme nowadays, but how do you type it in Windows? Alt+0151 is the combo, which is based on Windows-1252 encoding. That's right, in Unicode era you rely on some old encoding codes to enter special characters if it has them, you use third-party tools, or you just copy from Word.
I think it's usually still possible to avoid console for a regular user, but as soon as you need anything dev, you'll need it. And for a developer shell is sort of one more language.
Not sure if it's a curse or a blessing, but over time you find it convenient, and it grows its roots into you.
Not sure if it's a curse or a blessing, but over time you find it convenient, and it grows its roots into you.
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I think it's usually still possible to avoid console for a regular user, but as soon as you need anything dev, you'll need it. And for a developer shell is sort of one more language.
Not sure if it's a curse or a blessing, but over time you find it convenient, and it grows its roots into you.
Not sure if it's a curse or a blessing, but over time you find it convenient, and it grows its roots into you.
There are GUIs for many tasks, but many are third-party (as in "not coming from developers of a CLI program"), not preinstalled, you have to know about them or search for them, and when giving instructions to configure or install something, it's easier to provide a command.
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
There are GUIs for many tasks, but many are third-party (as in "not coming from developers of a CLI program"), not preinstalled, you have to know about them or search for them, and when giving instructions to configure or install something, it's easier to provide a command.
Wget is just download, I'm not sure what Windows users use.
Raylib requires installing some headers (something-dev), and while you can find them in a GUI like Synaptic, a one-liner is more convenient tbh. And commands to build is just a C/C++ life outside Visual Studio's build system, I guess :)
Raylib requires installing some headers (something-dev), and while you can find them in a GUI like Synaptic, a one-liner is more convenient tbh. And commands to build is just a C/C++ life outside Visual Studio's build system, I guess :)
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Wget is just download, I'm not sure what Windows users use.
Raylib requires installing some headers (something-dev), and while you can find them in a GUI like Synaptic, a one-liner is more convenient tbh. And commands to build is just a C/C++ life outside Visual Studio's build system, I guess :)
Raylib requires installing some headers (something-dev), and while you can find them in a GUI like Synaptic, a one-liner is more convenient tbh. And commands to build is just a C/C++ life outside Visual Studio's build system, I guess :)
I see. Depending on your file manager there may be a way to set file permissions, printer command was probably `systemctl mask cups-browsed` (I totally googled that) which masks (strong disables) a printer detection service, and there are GUIs for that too (found SysD Manager, haven't used it tho).
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I see. Depending on your file manager there may be a way to set file permissions, printer command was probably `systemctl mask cups-browsed` (I totally googled that) which masks (strong disables) a printer detection service, and there are GUIs for that too (found SysD Manager, haven't used it tho).