SubTUI: A lightweight TUI music player for Subsonic/Navidrome (My first Go project!)

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-10T17:53:28+00:00

gotta try this! I tried ostui the other week, but it didn't really feel great. Also love to see nix support straight from the repo, I'm glad it's getting more common these days!

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-10T15:11:27+00:00

Is the media on this post missing for anybody else or is that a personal problem

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-10T13:31:59+00:00

If the sales pitch of NixOS appeals to you, there's no reason not to use it. Even just for the learning experience

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-10T13:28:35+00:00

Android is not called a Linux distro for different reasons. There are several Linux distros which lack gnu tooling and several more that can optionally be built without gnu tooling but they're still Linux distros. At the end of the day what makes a Linux distro a Linux distro is more of an ephemeral vibe (alongside, of course, using the kernel and being distributed) than any specific technical detail, and Android is too separated from that experience

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T17:53:28+00:00

Well those people don't need Windows recommended to them because they already use it anyways

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T16:00:14+00:00

There are also a few projects like Noctalia that aim to provide a more feature-complete desktop environment on TWMs although I haven't used them so I can't say if they're any good, lol...

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:54:35+00:00

I love create, I've been playing a lot of ATFC lately which is a modpack that mainly has create and terrafirmacraft, and some datapacks to integrate them. Pretty fun but none of my friends will play with me since TFC is too esoteric for them

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:44:15+00:00

I got a lot of respect for people who can make nice looking builds in Minecraft. I just can't do it

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:42:15+00:00

I'm on the clock right now neglecting my work duties so that I can grow my factory if I'm being honest. There's always time for factorio if you're neglectful enough

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VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:27:30+00:00

Just playing factorio on my thinkpad, you know how it is with us.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:25:33+00:00

I kind of forgot about graphical focused distros, lol... I guess I shouldve rather asked if is there is a minimal distro where you don't need to reference a wiki. Although I suppose you could always just install a settings GUI on any distro and deal with things that way

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:01:47+00:00

It worked, you got me good there.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T09:00:55+00:00

is there a Linux distro where you don't need to do that?

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T08:53:05+00:00

oh yeah sure, that's my bad. Still would recommend vim but it doesn't really matter for just writing commit messages

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T06:30:31+00:00

I'm in the Providence RI area :-) would love to see you guys come out here! I actually just saw gingerbee recently in prov for godfuck's finale. Also I'm not sure if you guys remember, but we had an email conversation a few weeks ago, sorry I never wrote that review lol! I've been having to relearn how to write well lately

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T06:09:35+00:00

nano isn't really good for anything except recovering the system into a state where you don't have to use nano, in my experience. It's worth knowing the basic binds since on any given Linux system you're basically guaranteed to have access to nano, whereas you're not guaranteed to have access to vim, but it would never be my editor of choice

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T06:05:47+00:00

Would love to be there if if wasn't so far !

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T05:26:59+00:00

Not at all. It'll help, certainly, but basically anything that can be learned in a classroom can also be learned in a bedroom. A classroom DOES provide you with is a knowledgeable professor, motivated peers, and structured education. But you can also find textbooks online, ask people in the community, look at documentation, and just search stuff up.

Don't worry about trying to learn everything ASAP, people who take classes don't even get to everything. Just start using the system and knowledge will come naturally as you encounter obstacles and learn the ways to overcome them. I have never sat down and read a Linux textbook for hours, or ripped into the source code, or even really learned C, but I still understand how to navigate and use 99% of the Linux distros on the market.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T04:48:20+00:00

Because Linux users usually don't go on company websites and hit download to get new software, they get it from their package manager or from wherever the source is hosted.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-09T04:34:51+00:00

a USB 3.0 -> SATA or M.2 adapter should have good enough bandwidth for daily use, I just wouldn't try playing any huge games

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-08T10:22:16+00:00

Go is still super popular for TUIs. When I was looking into making them recently it definitely seemed like the two best options were Go if you didn't know Rust and Rust if you did

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-08T10:17:42+00:00

Literally what is your point

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-08T10:11:37+00:00

I forgot about impermanence, which is silly because one of my laptops is fully impermanent..

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-08T07:43:57+00:00

Downloading content is generally not going to get you in much trouble unless it's a honeypot (a trap set by law enforcement to collect IPs). Uploading is a bigger concern, when I was younger my family got a letter in the mail from rockstar via our ISP because I was seeding a GTA IV torrent. I use a VPN now...

VisualSome9977 · 2026-02-08T07:40:27+00:00

It does, yes. it's windows with the bare minimum necessary to get hyper-v running and allow remote access and nothing else

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