@Aman_Bhatnagar
Arch is easy!!!
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Lex Fridman interviewed Neal Stephenson, and about 2 hour mark, we get into vi, and emacs, and shell scripts!
Thereās yet another one where he interviews Brian Kernighan and they talk about UNIX and @Akitoās favourite thing Cā¦
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Does not matter what distro is installed ( and that can change soo fast)
my desktop this setup I prefer, the wallpapers on rotation of few hours.
the most liked wallpapers I have are from Emags e.g. 3D Artist etc some very funny adverts etc,
put them through Gimp processes Iāve worked out.
The panels 1,2 &3 are usually hidden auto-hide - so clean desktop.
use the places/bookmarks on the folder to access anything anywhere,
Simple monitor on primary screen is a must have and that is it.
Iāve reduced image to half size
Have a Happy and Good 2023
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I forgot to mention that that 'Being Creative" was a signage from a coffee shop in Stanthorpe Qld
they didnāt mind a photo taken converted from portrait to landscape and got me a new wallpaper.
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I just realised after listening & reading the description, who that guy is. I actually started listening to Cryptonomicon a couple of weeks ago.
What he said about Emacs in regards to administrating a UNIX operating system is correct. You need that quick editor to quickly edit a configuration file.
Though, my approach goes a bit out of the box and questions the entire thing.
In my view, such a workflow is basically like running against a wall, head first, every morning & every single time after that you put a big patch on your forehead, just to repeat it again, next morning.
Iām saying, letās stop running against walls. Id est letās stop having this maintenance nightmare, where every operating system has thousands of configuration files put in a million different places.
Letās start using declarative configurations. NixOS is a good attempt at solving the problem.
He also seems to be that UNIX type of guy, who likes to make life hard. Likes to go by foot, even when someone offers him a free ride home in a Ferrari.
For example, this whole grep and Regex madness in UNIX is obsolete & just makes life so complicated.
All that said, we have to put all this into context & consider, that this man is coming from a different time frame. So, Iām not āblamingā or āaccusingā him of doing it those ways. Iām just saying, one shouldnāt see a role model in how he does it.
Do you refer to a different video? If yes, can you point to it? Iām interested in hearing about it.
If it is in this video, I missed it.
