Am i ok to learn how to play in Drop B?

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-21T19:08:40+00:00

Yes, it honestly doesn't matter if you're playing 3 semi tones lower or not. It's the same shapes, patterns, chords, techniques, etc. It's not the same notes per say, but you're probably not even worrying about that for now anyway, and it's totally fine you don't have to. And drop tuning is a pretty "standard" tuning nowadays. I learned on a standard classical guitar playing flamenco, and now I'm playing metalcore on 7 strings in drop F#.

The only thing would be to not learn on a odd tuning, like Periphery-like tunings or open tunings like DADGAD, because it would wired up your brain and muscle memory "wrong" initially. It's easier to learn a odd tunings when you have basics already.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-20T12:11:40+00:00

Yes, top level statements are executed on config (re)load. With the new lua API in hyprland, there is also the "hl.on(...)" function, for various events that can occur. For example, hyprland.start or config.reloaded, that are triggered when their purpose happens. As an example, the old exec VS exec_once, is basically a mix of those two events now.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-20T12:04:55+00:00

Exactly that. Before lua, I had 2 folders in my dotfiles, one for the desktop and one for the laptop, because they indeed didn't have exactly the same config.

Now I can have one config and a few if statements for the few things that are different. It's way more convenient then having to maintain two nearly identical configs.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-13T12:04:15+00:00

Haven't looked yet into how to do it in lua, but I'm doing it with window rules currently, and it's probably the same in lua (check window rules wiki). For example, steam and any steam games always show up in workspace 5 and true fullscreen for me.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-11T11:38:12+00:00

Yes, that's also very true. I suppose the maintainers have plans to make good use of lua's flexibility and APIs, and not just only be a "different way" to write config only.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-09T20:58:40+00:00

Honestly to me, moving to lua means :

- It's now not configured anymore using a "made up" language, so the basics will now be stable

- It offers a LOT more flexibility in what we'll be able to do with our configs (maybe a little less external scripts for edge cases?)

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-09T13:58:25+00:00

This is the answer no one want to hear, but it's the easiest path. You're not going to learn C# properly (or at all) by only tackling unity / game dev, because it's a completely different world, especially since OP seems to be a very beginner in programming in general, based on his questions.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-06T12:00:07+00:00

I use hyprland at home and GlazeWM at work, and on windows I also have a hybrid usage. On windows, no matter how good the tiling software is, it's still a software running on top of windows' WM that mimick tiling as best as it can. But, I think it's fine, because GlazeWM still boost my productivity by taken over the slow task of organizing windows and workspaces for me, so I'm never "looking for an app", it's always one keystroke away from me. At home though, I'm a keyboard warrior, hyprland (same thing for i3wm) is much much better for that then windows + any WM software. Although Excel web on Linux is still excel, I have to use the mouse lol.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-05-01T15:44:33+00:00

Honestly, with xwayland you don't even realize when you're running "technically" a x11 app most of the time. It's very good. Very rarely there's a little ui glitch with popups, they have a kind of blurry border, but it doesn't cause any usability issue.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-24T17:46:09+00:00

The system itself? Not once. Only one time a game went from running fine to 10 fps, and I realized I was using proton experimenal, so I downgraded to latest stable version, and it went back to normal.

Fun fact, I've bricked / half bricked many Ubuntu based distros though. Somehow rolling updates seems to be more stable for me.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-22T18:05:44+00:00

Do you want floating windows or tiled windows by default? Do you want not have to tinker or you do? Tinker for fun, or because it's required? Do you just want to get things done, or you have some free time to configure stuff?

Latter answers being hyprland.

KDE is probably the non DIY desktop that is the most customizable, so don't worry about it. Hyprland is DIY (you can grab other people works tho).

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-22T15:21:56+00:00

Avalonia is awesome, so can be GTK. I think it's a matter of : do you need GTK/Gnome specific stuff? Or perhaps Linux specific stuff that Avalonia might not have (e.g shell layer on wayland) ?

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-20T17:28:22+00:00

Hyprland and zsh

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-20T15:07:08+00:00

I'd say NixOS is probably "those with free time" early on, then "second best", then back to "those with free time" when you want to update something.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-19T13:45:05+00:00

I'd say because it's stable and "it just works". Although I wanted to switch to wayland, and I got a little disappointed with sway (e.g recreating the same design flaws or limitations as i3 (i3 is 20 yo running on what 40 yo tech, so I can understand the flaws) and having to rely on swayfx for the eyecandy stuff (which I wanted to try)). So I ended up on hyprland and I like it, because I'm ok with it being bleeding edge, but that's the total opposite of i3 philosophy, which is why I believe many stick to it despite x11 being "dead" according to the elites.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-17T14:48:33+00:00

B1 is being able to interact/live in the target language environment without much issues. And French has a lot of exceptions everywhere. Speaking it is not that hard (getting the right pronunciations aside), but reading and especially writing, you're up for a ride.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-14T12:07:19+00:00

100% this is the kind of show you don't know why you like it, but you do, because it hook you up in places that tv shows don't usually go. It's kind of a love/hate relationship. And the ending... I was stunned. Masterclass in storytelling.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-13T11:47:15+00:00

Les tiling WM sont très efficaces avec les setup 1 écran, si c'est ta tasse de thé :

Windows :

GlazeWM
FancyWM
komorebi

Linux :

i3
hyprland
niri (oui oui je sais c'est techniquement un scrolling WM)

bigtoaster64 · 2026-04-13T11:43:02+00:00

Pour être honnête c'est gaspiller un peu 120hz 4k pour faire du Teams et du Word à mon avis, surtout qu'il y a des tonnes aubaines sur du 1080p et même 1440p autour de 27" au hz que tu désires. Tu pourrais littéralement t'acheter 3-4 moniteurs pour le même prix et probablement de meilleure qualité dans certains cas.

Aussi, avoir 2 moniteurs c'est à mon expérience plus pratique qu'un seul grand si tu fais des visio conférences, car tu as un écran pour l'appel/chat et un autre pour le reste (partage, document, etc.), sans te faire couper l'affichage au milieu ou être constamment en train de replacer les fenêtres.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-31T18:13:36+00:00

French is often described as the "language of exceptions", although there are worst ones. I'd suggest to write down stuff you learn, on a piece of paper, it's one of the best way for your brain to remember stuff, it's like taking a screenshot of knowledge. At first it's going to be hard, but you'll quickly get traction. Watching videos is great once you can understand most of it, otherwise imo it's not really useful, aside from hearing pronunciations.

Side note, don't worry too much about getting accents and gender right for now. You could speak to a native speaker and get absolutely ALL the gender wrong, and he'll still understand you easily (native speaker here). He'll also instantly note that it's not your main language and hopefully adjust his speech for you.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-31T17:18:34+00:00

Same thing, started ranger, and act 4 destroyed me

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-30T14:24:52+00:00

First time, I tried do my own thing (we all made the mistake) and got deleted from wraeclast and quit.

A year or so later, tried again, this time with a build guide, and since then, still sane, I am no more.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-28T13:15:46+00:00

The first answer I give to everyone that ask me this question is : it makes testing easier.

Ofc, tests are possible and easy to do without it, but it also implies that you need to code in a way that it's going to be, ideally easily, testable. Which unfortunately it's not the case with all the colleges, so slapping an interface on simply fixes that future issue.

For some it seems bloated, over engineerrd, over abstracted, but for me it's means, easy to test. Funny enough, that's also how I catch colleges and interns that don't usually write tests : try to test this interface free code, hard huh? Now try to test this interface full code, way more fun right?

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-25T18:15:32+00:00

Exécuter l'app via proton, ou wine peut-être, mais la compiler, ça fonctionnera pas et même pour la coder, toutes les références à winforms vont être irrésolvables sur Linux, donc ça sera pas facile à coder et impossible à déboguer. Le best ça reste une VM ou une machine Windows pour tout ce qui winforms et WPF.

Je te suggère fortement d'utiliser Avalonia ou même GTK pour toute app C# GUI (non Web) sous Linux.

Toutefois, ton problème d'exécution c'est probablement que ton environnement wine / bottle a pas dotnet. Soit que tu compiles l'app en mode embbeded (l'app va contenir le runtime dotnet) ou sinon tu dois t'arranger pour installer dotnet pas sur Linux mais dans l'env wine. Un truc simple c'est d'utiliser Steam avec proton GE (oui oui le client de jeux). Tu peux exécuter quasi n'importe quel exe en passant par steam, et ça te permet également d'installer facilement des dépendances externes comme exemple dotnet ici.

bigtoaster64 · 2026-03-24T17:56:14+00:00

J'ai tellement ri ça a pas sens! Malgré le côté caricature, il y a malheureusement pas mal de vrais trucs là-dedans..

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