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Whilst I write this I’m looking at Firefox, Obsidian, VSCode and Discord, all of which are browsers in some form or another.Īs for actual browsers, I’m still a loyal Firefox user. It’s 2021, basically everything nowadays is done through a browser. Hopefully by the time I get really annoyed by it, it’ll magically solve itself. Some parts have got better, others haven’t. I still haven’t had a proper look into my clipboard issues, but my brain has trained itself to just ignore it and work around it. I’ve considered switching back to bash for a more cohesive setup across devices, but given I don’t use many of the zsh-specific features, it doesn’t make a difference, and having some oh-my-zsh plugins can be rather nice.

Alacritty, ZSH and are at its heart, and that’s probably not going to change. My shell hasn’t changed since last year, and probably won’t change next year. Given their like of (some of) Gnome and tiling managers, it’s a project I’ll be following with a lot of interest. Somewhat recently, The folks at System76 mentioned looking into developing a new desktop environment (in rust!). Stealing the components from environments like XFCE is also something I’m interested in trying to get some of these features. KDE + i3 is definitely the closest to what I’m after, but miles off. A few creature-comforts like compositing, a settings panel etc would be great, but I just don’t need them most of the time. i3 is lightweight, customizable, fits fairly well with my brain, and thanks to sway has some form of future in a wayland world. But in the last few months, I’ve taken a step back, and asked myself “What do I want out of a different desktop environment” - and always came up blank. Last year I said I’d have left i3 for something else, and I haven’t.

Enlightenment is very promising, but being neither GTK nor QT based, a lot of the tools look different, and that’s before trying to automatically configure it, which doesn’t appear to be an option.

And everything I liked about my i3 setup was implemented differently by KDE (especially notifications)

i3 + KDE also works quite well, but also has no wayland path.

i3-Gnome works fairly well, but is a bit of a bodge, and has no wayland path (i3-sway doesn’t really exist besides a few PoCs).

KDE is alright, but quite a monster, and again very little i3-tier tiling scripts, and would require some hacks to get it versioned with tools like Ansible.

Pop-shell is nice, but it’s often out of sync with the gnome versions in the Arch repos, so is often broken or buggy.

Gnome didn’t have good tiling support.

In the last year, I’ve really looked into some possible alternatives, but nothing ever sat quite right: It’s still a fairly minimal setup, with 2 bars, and a bunch of custom shortcuts and rofi-based scripts. Currently, my desktop environment of choice is i3, and in the last year very little about it has changed. The desktop environment is the window into the device, through which we interact with and control everything. If you thought some members of the Arch community was bad, Nix sure has worse. But Nix is quite a rabbit-hole to dive down, and certain members of its community have made it a real turn off.

Given I provision my devices using Ansible anyway, might as well go all in. I’ve had a bit of an eye on Nix for a bit over the last year.

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Some may argue the stability makes it unsuitable for a professional machine, but my work laptop (Thinkpad X1C8) has been running absolutely fine since March with 0 issues of any kind. The AUR is still the absolute killer feature for me, and I can’t find anything similar on any other platform. I’m still using Arch (by the way), and it’s working fine for what I need. 2022 hopefully brings a few more niceties.

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This year does mark me setting up a Windows machine for the first time in many years, but it’s just in a VM for testing some things. I’m still very much a linux user, and pretty happy with it. # Platforms # OSĢ021 may not have been the year of Linux on the desktop, but still some great things have come from it. This year has been much more a time of stabilizing what I’m using rather than trying out radical new approaches, but overall I’m much happier with how I’m getting things done.

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I’m still working from home full time, and since last time have moved to a fully remote position at a different company (The offices exist, just a couple hour’s drive away). It’s still an idea I’ve completely stolen from CGP Grey / Cortex, but I think it’s useful, fun and interesting. It’s a new year, so it’s time to reflect back on the tools I used last year, how they’ll change this year, and how they might change in future.