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Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by gh02t »

boffinAudio wrote: post #12
zamalek wrote: post #6

Alacritty is not a good terminal. It lacks support for several sensible protocols, such as keyboard disambiguation (guests cannot discern between e.g. ctrl+I and tab). Foot is probably a competent terminal with somewhat similar goals to Alacritty (the VT library is incredibly fast, which seems to make up for the software rendering).

How about Terminator? I've been using it for years and never encountered any issues, but I'm curious how it rates in your ranking of terms... ?

Terminator is built on libvte for the actual terminal emulator bits (as are MANY other Linux GUI terminal apps), so it has pretty mature support for a lot of the not-sexy-but-important features like the ones the parent post mentions by virtue of inheriting them from libvte. In terms of the low level terminal emulation support most of the libvte terminals are semi-interchangeable, at least the ones I have used.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by cxr »

arccy wrote: post #19
cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

so how do you automate this?

How do you automate what?

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by mosselman »

cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

The creator is the creator of Ruby on Rails so I doubt he is very concerned with nodejs

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by [deleted] »

mosselman wrote: post #23
cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

The creator is the creator of Ruby on Rails so I doubt he is very concerned with nodejs

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Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by gradientsrneat »

There are a lot of, "rices" and "dotfiles" on GitHub with attention-grabbing screenshots in the README - this is not quite that, but the sales pitch of what it offers strikes a similar chord. They are a fun way to serendipitously discover new tools and configuration.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by nsonha »

mosselman wrote: post #23
cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

The creator is the creator of Ruby on Rails so I doubt he is very concerned with nodejs

that person sounds like his fan and maybe they thought this is a good place to rant about JS, with which DHH would agree. Even though the opinion is completely irrelevant to the thread.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by sergiotapia »

phito wrote: post #7

I don't see why anyone would want to use someone else's personal setup, but cool. Also not a fan of introducing new Linux users to wget | bash ...

I just used it on a fresh Ubuntu VM, will be my daily driver moving forward I think.

I like the styles it comes with, the terminal, and the way the workspaces and shortcuts are set up.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by sureglymop »

zamalek wrote: post #6

Alacritty is not a good terminal. It lacks support for several sensible protocols, such as keyboard disambiguation (guests cannot discern between e.g. ctrl+I and tab). Foot is probably a competent terminal with somewhat similar goals to Alacritty (the VT library is incredibly fast, which seems to make up for the software rendering).

Would recommend Wezterm instead.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by btreecat »

The "kub" very much implied that this installs/includes/is based around k8s. It isn't, and that's a poor choice in name due to needless friction.

This is similar to an Ubuntu "spin" so I'm ot sure why someone would go through all the effort but of customization with out releasing a proper remix that just gives you the out of box XP with lower friction.

This clearly isn't meant for containers, maybe folks who dev on windows and use a VM will find it more useful given WSL2

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