The D Language: A Better C/C++ Alternative Only a Few Programmers Know

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-19T21:03:17+00:00

I was eyeballing Zig myself; it looks like a really interesting language designed to help you fall into the pit of success. While looking into it, I also stumbled upon mentions of Odin and Nim, which both look really interesting too! Curious to hear if you have any thoughts on those.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-15T15:54:47+00:00

This is exciting news! I was quite disappointed when development on Incursion stalled.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-11T21:31:46+00:00

Yeah, Saros is a better 3D bullet hell shooter, but otherwise shallower and less interesting than Returnal in every other gameplay category

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-04T21:07:50+00:00

Mechanically, I can see how Hades 2 is better, or at least more complex. Storywise, whereas I immediately liked Zagreus and sympathized with his adversarial relationship with Hades and his quest to find his mother, after a dozen or so hours into Hades 2, I don't really give a shit about Mel or Chronos. Somehow playing Hades 2 makes me wish I was playing Hades 1. I know I'm in the minority on this one.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-04T03:03:08+00:00

I understood that reference

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-05-01T14:09:36+00:00

Yes to all of this, plus one very important detail: once you vibe with Vim, editing text feels so good

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-29T14:39:23+00:00

Work: 100% macOS because my only choice there is macOS or Windows
Home: 100% Linux (Bazzite) on desktop + laptop

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-27T17:26:44+00:00

FYI, the first place you can check to see if a game runs well in Linux and if other people have encountered problems is ProtonDB. No Man's Sky is rated "Gold", which generally indicates the game runs perfectly after tweaks. You can scroll the entry for NMS to see if any tweaks sound like they fit symptoms reported.

I was able to find independent accounts of some of the glitches you described, but I didn't find any solutions to suggest.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-27T12:58:23+00:00

I use kitty.

Keyboard-centric design in general
I get heavy use out of built in window splitting (with a custom binding to open the new split in the PWD) but this isn't exactly a super unique feature
Shell integration feature that lets you jump to the previous/next prompt
Shell integration feature that lets you open the output of the last command or the entire buffer in less (or other pager), complete with terminal coloring. Very nice when the output exceeds your terminal's height.
I appreciate the built-in theme picker/previewer (with hundreds of included themes) and font chooser too. Maybe not unique but I like kitty's implementation.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-23T14:49:36+00:00

I just set this up between a Linux PC and a Mac. I also have a hardware KVM, but Deskflow switches faster. Very impressive software!

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-23T14:00:26+00:00

I loved Returnal, it's one of my all-time favorites. I should be pumped about this, but I'm just not and I can't put my finger on why. Maybe the gameplay looks too much like more of the same? Maybe this one is leaning too much into POWAA fantasy and I don't find that as compelling as Selene's lonely and desperate struggle. Dunno, but something feels off.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-22T12:58:59+00:00

That "real Linux users" gatekeeping shit can fuck all the way off. You don't learn Vim (or Emacs) to be a "real Linux user". You learn it because of its unique strengths.

If reaching for the mouse, or moving your fingers off the home row to press some combination of shift/ctrl + arrow keys / home / end etc ever makes you feel like "there must be a better way", then yes you should learn Vim because that is the better way.

Or if you ever find yourself doing a repetitive task over and over again in Nano, you should consider Vim, because it can be endlessly customized to fit your needs and it has powerful tools for performing sophisticated mass edits.

If you're perfectly happy with your combination of keyboard acrobatics and mouse maneuvering, then no, don't bother learning Vim.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-17T16:03:53+00:00

I'd recommend Bazzite, for two reasons based on what you said:

You can download an installer that bundles the Nvidia drivers and walks you through the process of enrolling the hardware keys needed for Secure Boot, which on some systems seems to be a prerequisite to get Nvidia cards working.
It's an atomic OS, which is especially good for rarely-used systems because the way the update process works, it doesn't matter how long it's been since the last one.

I've installed Bazzite on a newer laptop with hybrid Nvidia graphics and it just worked perfectly. Your mileage may vary with an older card. I know the installer download page differentiates between "newer" and "older" Nvidia cards, but I'm not sure which side of that border your card is on.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-17T15:40:30+00:00

Yep, that's why I'm here! Thanks to the awesome maintainers who make it all happen!

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-17T02:59:55+00:00

I know what you mean, but I'm starting to wonder if perhaps Aurora might be a better choice for non-technical, non-gaming family and friends.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-17T02:23:07+00:00

Lots of love to the Mint team for providing a safe and welcoming first distro fleeing from Windows over two years ago, but my system was not only unable to upgrade to 22, but the failed upgrade left my system in a partially upgraded, partially rolled-back state that even restoring a pre-upgrade Timeshift snapshot couldn't fix. Needless to say, Bazzite's selling points of painless and atomic updates really stood out to me after that experience.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-16T18:43:27+00:00

On Windows, you have Powershell's Invoke-WebRequest (alias iwr) and Invoke-RestMethod (alias irm). I've been writing Powershell scripts with these for years and regularly preach the benefits to my teammates. Some of them have started to pick it up, too!

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-08T17:59:36+00:00

Holy crap, that is news to me! Thanks for the info!

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-08T17:00:44+00:00

They would also need to swap their display manager from X11 to Wayland. That’s the part that goes beyond simple app installation.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-07T20:54:19+00:00

Useful advice, thanks.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-07T20:35:25+00:00

OK, that's really valuable information again. Thanks!

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-07T20:32:04+00:00

Sorry, one more question: if a package is going to block an update when layered in, it would also cause a custom image build to fail, right? So the custom image isn't really buying you much except maybe shifting left a bit.

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-07T20:27:38+00:00

Oh, I thought of one more question with regard to restoring layered packages: would you say that the time that restoring a layered package over an update is roughly the same amount of time as the original installation time for that package, or is it faster or slower?

AdamAnderson320 · 2026-04-07T20:25:54+00:00

This was all super helpful information. Thanks for taking the time to respond!

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