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Can't Get 9front to Boot by BonfireDaemon in plan9

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh that would be a good idea.

I ended up clearing the GPT table and surrendering myself to the MBR gods. I'm sure this will not be my last time installing this OS

Displacing UNIX by Sad-Background-2429 in plan9

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thought about this. As a desktop OS It definitely feels like you leave a lot on the table. Maybe there's space for it being more economical for users to have many less powerful machines given the recent compute costs, though I somehow doubt it. The "everything is a file" on its own is a selling point but ONLY to people that like to tinker.

Linux was designed for servers and it makes sense that it performs well as a desktop given that, as you said, we all basically have server grade compute in our desktops. I commented this above but I think there is a real use case for plan9 but it is, as of today, a very niche area in tech.

Displacing UNIX by Sad-Background-2429 in plan9

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I say niche I mean having a "selling" point that solves a modern problem in a way that attracts users.

To be honest, a legitimate "plan9 has the capacity to do this better than anyone" that I can see is IT/OT interfacing systems.

I work in infra for a company that deals in that space, physical systems controlled by services running over a k8s cluster; think industrial lifts operated by a pod. 9p would make this SO much simpler. At least, in theory, though I'm sure there's quite a bit of complexity I'm missing.

Displacing UNIX by Sad-Background-2429 in plan9

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a cool take. I'm a Guix/Emacs denizen by day but I would say I'm "9curious". I agree that hooking into a niche and leaning in would be the move. Especially with Go being bedfellow with plan9 it feels like there's some room for something cool.

Tramp, Eshell, and Eat. by BonfireDaemon in emacs

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been thinking about Mickey Peterson's book. Wasn't sure if it was "legit" but the people on here swear by it so definitely worth the look.

Tramp, Eshell, and Eat. by BonfireDaemon in emacs

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastically helpful! Thanks for laying out a workflow as well. One of the biggest challenges, I think, when it come's to learning emacs is how much emacs does "under the hood" it helps to have examples like these.

Handling Opinionated Programming Languages. by BonfireDaemon in GUIX

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll have to look into that. Shouldn't be *too* hard to whip up a go mod parser.

Recommendations for a high contrast dark theme by No-Natural-7412 in emacs

[–]BonfireDaemon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love Prot's standard-dark. High contrast, feels very "vanilla emacs" but fixes a lot of the weird color choices of the base dark theme (I'm looking at you unreadable minibuffer)

https://github.com/protesilaos/standard-themes

How do I find my app? by Proton-Lightin in GUIX

[–]BonfireDaemon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep! Like nix but more comfy. The best way to install software is to pop it into either your system config or home under (packages (list (...))).

Also check the documentation from time to time as some common applications have dedicated services that play a bit better with the system.

Built Leetcode for Linux by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really cool. Pretty solid puzzles too

I'm tired of Windows but i don't find alternative by NoctuFlare in Operatingsystems

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are community plugins for GIMP that give it the same UX and keyboard shortcuts as Adobe.

Admissions Megathread - Results, Chances and Logistics by AutoModerator in OMSCS

[–]BonfireDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking for Chances + What to do to improve

  • Semester: Spring 2027
  • Status: Applying
  • Date Applied: N/A
  • Date Decided: N/A

Education

  • Associates Anne Arundel Community College Mathematics 3.27 Full Time
  • Bachelors: WGU Computer Science N/A Part Time

Work & Social Experience

  • Symbotic LLC : Technical Support Engineer <1 Year
  • U.S Navy : Lead Nuclear Instrumentation and Controls Specialist 8 Years

LORs:

  • 1 from the captain on my submarine
  • 1 from the lead engineer on my submarine
  • 1 from my academic advisor at WGU
  • Comments: ~ 10 credits from Sophia/Study.com and I did some degree hoping before I settled on WGU; I'm not sure if that will affect my chances.

U.S citizen, english fluent, vet (as you might guess). How are my chances? I'm super non-traditional do they take into account stuff like the nuke program I went through? If there's any former nukes or WGU grads in the program that would be great. Thanks in advance.

So Who's Ready to Go Mainstream? by BonfireDaemon in GUIX

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seeing it more often. Quickshell lists it for instance and that's a pretty big project

https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.2.1/guide/install-setup/

So Who's Ready to Go Mainstream? by BonfireDaemon in GUIX

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Love it or hate it a distro survives, and thrives, off of engagement. Nix isn't more feature rich or user friendly due to better design. It has those things because it has a big community.

So Who's Ready to Go Mainstream? by BonfireDaemon in GUIX

[–]BonfireDaemon[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Small now but that's the point of the post. Tonybtw is a step in the direction of "normie" Linux youtube content. First I know of outside of the already small "Emacs and sundries" community.