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Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #17

I've never been as productive in anything as I have in this. Whoever came up with the default key combinations is a genius. I'd heard people talk about i3 and other tiling WM's, but it seemed like a big step to take to learn and take the time to configure it, etc. I found out about Regolith, figured "Eh since it also comes as an apt package I can just install + uninstall it if I don't like it." By the end of using it…

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Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by virtualwhys » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

Have been using i3 for maybe 10 years now; it's at the very core of my daily computing experience.

Regolith running application search looks useful -- nice project.

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by thewakalix » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:34 PM UTC

enriquto wrote: post #30

emptysongglass wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! The project leader posted a pic of progress on the Regolith Slack a few days ago. No ETA that I know of but swing by the Slack to stay up to date. [1] [1] https://regolith-linux.herokuapp.com/

I had a hard time understanding this message. In the context of linux distributions, it seemed to me that there were ubuntu-based and slack-based distributions for regolith. This sounds really cool because slack is bare-bones and it means that regolith has made a conscious effort at portability. But this is not the case, and it has nothing to do with slackware.

I think it’s talking about the messaging app named Slack.

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by driton » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:34 PM UTC

Thanks for posting this. Decided to install it as a package and give it a try, so far I'm quite impressed.

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by cheaprentalyeti » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

emteycz wrote: post #24

pgray wrote: post #21

This reminds me of crunchbang linux from years back. It was a simple config of xfce and conky based on debian.

They must've had more than that. My laptop did not work with Debian out of the box, but it did with Crunchbang.

I use Bunsenlabs, one of the successors of Crunchbang. (There are a couple others). You can use the vanilla version, built on top of debian, or add the repositories to devuan.

[0]: https://bunsenlabs.org

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by darkwater » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

Why so many cli-focused users are so interested by CPU usage/temp, net throughput and extra stats in the status bar, like in the main screenshot? Yeah I kmow it's a status bar so it should display status, but as a CLI user myself I'm genuinely curious because if I want to know what's happening, I just have a look at top or similar tooling, then I close it and continue with my tasks. Do you change your behavior based on the status of the system? Are you checking it very often?

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by l0b0 » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 10:17 PM UTC

Looks like it's closed source. Several GitHub repos, but only for things like issues and building ISOs.

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by cameronperot » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 10:18 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #36

Why so many cli-focused users are so interested by CPU usage/temp, net throughput and extra stats in the status bar, like in the main screenshot? Yeah I kmow it's a status bar so it should display status, but as a CLI user myself I'm genuinely curious because if I want to know what's happening, I just have a look at top or similar tooling, then I close it and continue with my tasks. Do you change your behavior based…

For me it's just an easy way to notice if something is unexpectedly eating up resources, then I know to pull up htop to figure out what it is and kill it if needed.

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by rograndom » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 10:45 PM UTC

l0b0 wrote: post #37

Looks like it's closed source. Several GitHub repos, but only for things like issues and building ISOs.

What? It's mostly just plain text configs for i3 which is open source on it's own. There's a whole Github project here: https://github.com/regolith-linux

Re: Regolith Linux

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Post by snide » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 11:11 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #36

Why so many cli-focused users are so interested by CPU usage/temp, net throughput and extra stats in the status bar, like in the main screenshot? Yeah I kmow it's a status bar so it should display status, but as a CLI user myself I'm genuinely curious because if I want to know what's happening, I just have a look at top or similar tooling, then I close it and continue with my tasks. Do you change your behavior based…

For me because in these sort of bespoke Linux setups I've found that temp / mem usage needs to be watched for spikes a lot more than something like my Mac. I run a fairly large typescript monorepo, and when I'm also running a zoom screenshare it's something I need to be aware of.

I'm running an arch setup, and because it's fairly barebones I needed to learn about temp / power control regulators like TLP.