Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz you can also dual-boot! that way it'll ask you when you start up your system which you want

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh, thanks!

and that's conky. it's a system monitor that you can script in lua to show any kind of information you want

the theme it's using right now is a variation of "conky grey", because i'm a sucker for the look, and it has a lot of practical information that i use pretty often (well, except for the clock around the date, but it looks weird without it, haha)

@ShugoWah a lot of linux concepts are in the misc sections of the manpages

so if you type "man 7" and hit tab a couple of times, a lot of fundamental topics will pop up!

of course, not all of these are important, but it's nice to know they're there if you get confused about a convention you see

the one describing the filesystem hierarchy you're looking at is "man 7 hier"

@ShugoWah hey! no prob!

i really liked VMs, so i actually used them a lot both ways!

that said, i actually haven't used a windows 10 vm for an extended period of time, so i don't know how it compares to windows 8 (which ran quite nicely after it started!)

huh! it seems as if i can't actually dismiss these notifications if my language is set to en-xx

i wonder what's happening internally if a localization breaks functionality like that?

@ShugoWah oh! and graphics acceleration is sometimes kinda tricky

and without that, the interface won't be as fast

so that's a bit of a caveat that can cost a bit of extra effort sometimes

@ShugoWah it depends what you use for VMs

stuff like VMWare (Player) lets you basically steal USB ports from the host system, so tablet drivers act on windows as if you plugged them right in

overall, VMs don't take a ridiculous amount of power to run (because they usually aren't actually emulating anything), but they'll likely take a bit longer to boot than a native system depending on what else you're doing at the time

@ShugoWah autocompletion is amazing!

you can tab complete commands you've never used before, and still be able to use them!

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz mint is nice! i really like their in-house projects, like cinnamon!

it's so clean, and their default aesthetics work really well with very little customization

actually, that's what i run on my laptop! (which was also my only system until about a year ago)

@sugar ooh! these are pretty common too!

i probably wouldn't get one for someone because that's kinda gatekeep-ish, but i think i know some peeps who would probably legit use that for their transition aesthetic

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz you can give dual-booting a shot if you want to try it out for a while!

pretty much every linux installer will give you a boot menu to pick between windows and linux when you start your system

if you like it, cool! you can just keep using it and have a pocket windows installation--otherwise you can just boot windows by default

@ShugoWah is very good luxray!

it even started with a long weekend!

this month is already pretty good!

@ShugoWah mind you, some things are nicer on 10 now, like WSL! that's a really cool project--also, VS is nice!

but at the same time, i suspect we might see a version of fl studio on linux because delphi now has compilers for it! tablet support is getting nicer, and i've been thinking of using AzPainter anyway, since one of my favorite artists uses it well!

i have nooo idea how things will pan out, but i might have enough reasons to go 100% linux again if i can actually do all my projects on it

@ShugoWah same! the main reason i use windows is because it's the only thing i can get fl studio to run on--and it has better tablet support for things like sai

but, the way that each update on 10 seems to break another part of my workflow really isn't convincing me i want to use it more. (i mean, what are they even doing to tablets??)

@ShugoWah it's true! valve has been super-dubious on quite a few fronts, but their linux efforts have been actually Pretty Tremendous

i've primarily used linux for nearly the last decade, and i can definitely say that there have been lots of improvements in interest and support

i mean, it's not perfect... there are still usability issues for people who don't know the system well, but things are *so* much better now than they were before, and i think valve played no small part in that