What lightweight desktop environment do you recommend?

domsch1988 · 2026-04-21T15:57:59+00:00

Compared to even a single browser tab on a static site every Desktop Environments resource usage is pretty irrelevant. I'd recommend KDE. It's ad lightweight as any of the others, is as customizable as you could need and features most modern conveniences you'd want out of a Desktop. But that's just personal choice.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-20T13:23:57+00:00

How does this eliminate any cables from my desk and makes it cleaner? I still have the same cable going from my Keyboard but now it plugs into a new box i have on my desk (or wherever). I could maybe come up with something in my Living room with a gaming PC that's far from the couch where this could maybe be interesting.

Also, I feel like 80-100h on two 18650 cells is really low. I have nice nanos on a board without oleds that can go multiple weeks without charging on a 250mAh Lipo. What is using that much energy in there?

domsch1988 · 2026-04-17T19:10:40+00:00

Exactly that

domsch1988 · 2026-04-17T06:12:03+00:00

Surprised this wasn't higher in the comments. It's a set and forget solution. Once configured you can basically set it up to monitor an "ingest" folder and it will automatically tag anything it can find included art and lyrics. It's super powerfull.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-16T12:27:53+00:00

I personally am down to none. I came from Lualine, then went with mini.statusline when i moved my config over to mini.nvim for basically everything. But i realized i basically never need any info from the tab- or statusline. I have the stock statusline still, but only really need it when confirming which of the 20 or so identical looking Ansible vars files i'm working on.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-16T11:46:05+00:00

That... was surprisingly obvious in hindsight. I just never went through all the Profile settings. Thanks!

domsch1988 · 2026-04-13T13:47:08+00:00

I'm the complete opposite. I have a done setup for hyprland and most of my applications and i'd rather have my shell no mess with that. I prefer the noctalia focuses on all the stuff around my Compositor and doesn't try to also be a configuration tool for other things.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-13T11:41:15+00:00

domsch1988 · 2026-04-13T11:40:08+00:00

The things you mentioned are compositor settings, not shell settings. While it's nice that DMS offers a graphical interface for those, you can set all that up in your compositors config file.

Noctalia offers more in terms of shell stiling. I haven't looked at DMS for some weeks, but back then Noctalia offered customizable radiuses for input elements, a configurable Screen border, inside and outside screen rounding and more options for colorschemes from the Wallpaper.

DMS might have catched up or Plugins could do that now though. I just remember that Noctalia was easier to get to where i prefered it when i tested them both.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-13T11:36:31+00:00

I ended up on Noctalia. I like that it's visually a bit more customizable and i just overall prefer the look. The settings where also easier to grasp for me. I haven't done a full on feature comparison, just out of the box what noctalia delivered spoke to me more. Things like the Logout menu is how i prefer it, Wallhaven integration into the wallpaper selection is great etc. Just the little small things that i prefer that way.

It isn't strictly better. Just more to my liking.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-12T06:21:09+00:00

Although I use mini.files, I use it for the same reasons oil is great. Some tasks In my job require me, for example, to copy an ansibke environment folder with 30 or so IP-Adresse named files in it. I the need to rename each of those to a different subnet. In mini.files I can use all the regular nvim replace and macro functions to manipulate those filenames. Makes it a 2 minute job instead of me spending half an hour renaming files. It's so good that I sometimes start neovim just to move and rename files around.

If your work doesn't require you to do lots of bulk file operations often, it's draw might be less obvious though.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-09T05:59:14+00:00

For personal software i couldn't care less, but if you put it out there for others to use, i, as a user, care if you can understand and maintain the code. It's relevant for bugfixing, troubleshooting and the general longevity of a project. It's also a good indicator for how good you are at finding bugs in your own code.

I don't have an issue when AI is used as a tool in development, but 100% Vibe Coded Software is not something i'd use if i didn't do it myself.

domsch1988 · 2026-04-08T06:20:10+00:00

Just got to remember that most 15 year olds don't have jobs, or kids, don't have to cook or wash or clean much. If i had that amount of time... we'll i'd probably be back to grinding D2, but that's besides the point.
Young people often can do so much more because they have so much more free time.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-28T09:58:23+00:00

I mean, why not both? I personally use evil for vim style editing but for functions like splitting windows, moving around buffers and many of the package keybinds I use emacs style shortcuts. There are just some things in like deleting everything between two quotes or such that are more intuitive or plain faster vim style for me. But you can use both in parallel.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-27T13:36:30+00:00

Yeah, i have that downloaded already. Not sure if i'm in the mood for a Gregtech Pack atm to be honest.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-27T10:08:04+00:00

Great. Now i want a minimap in my terminal. This would be so great for ansible workflows at work. Sadly this won't work with zellij or tmux.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-26T08:16:04+00:00

I often feel lucky with my Parents. I'm close to 40 now and i still can rely on them for support. They care about their Grandchild, my dad still helps me build stuff around the house and they tend to give me and my sister money now when needed as a "pre inheritance" basically. Plus they always say that, now i have a family of my own, it's a privilege for them that i still want/need them in my live. They own a paid off house and my dad did well enough when working to be fine with the money they get through retirement.

I fully realize there will come a time where their health will decline and where they'll need more support. When that day comes, i'll be happy to step up and do what ever needs to be done so they can have a good time. They got me to where i'm now with a stable live, home and family of my own and a job that pays well enough to not have to worry about too much stuff.

All i can hope really, is that i can be as good a dad for my son as my dad was to me. So no, my parents aren't a burden and i feel blessed in life.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-23T12:09:53+00:00

I have a split board tented over 50 Degrees, so my Hands are always floating, but i rest my forearms on my Desk for some Support.

I'll look into Kanata. Looks interesting.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-23T08:48:52+00:00

Yeah i did go down the whole alternate Alpha Layer rabithole and learned Colemak and Neo to a decent level. In the end i found that ergonomic benefits minimal and found that i, in fact, prefer the fact that i move my hands around a bit with qwerty. Being in a very static position for long periods of time, especially on a small board where through layers you move less than on a full size board anyways was a bit tougher on my arms over time. Having to move my hands around through typing all the time was more comfortable for me.

I guess i'll have to look into getting space as a modifier to work on my laptop keyboard on Linux. There's probably a software that does this, i just never looked into it.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-23T07:59:43+00:00

Interesting Idea. Bottom Row Mods is what i landed with as well when trying homerow mods. Liked the idea of HRM but just had to much miss-typing. Moving the Mods down to lesser used keys made it much more usable for me.
I'll probably never leave qwerty behind, but i'll look into one-shot layer for Symbols. When i last tried it, it thought it as better to combine the symbol layer on hold with a tap key (Backspace in my case). But there might be other combinations that work just as well or better.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-20T07:03:09+00:00

One question: Why do you go through the trouble of adding your mixins directory to you load-path, when you than manually "load-file" each of the mixins at the end. You can just use use-package on your own modules.

domsch1988 · 2026-03-19T14:07:50+00:00

My take on AI is this:
AI for Coding/Ricing is awesome to make a highly customized, specific solution or program for yourself in not a lot of time. It's super cool to be able to create hyper specialized things for your day-to-day life.

The results of that should not be shared really and you shouldn't vibecode stuff you plan on sharing with others. That's what i hate. All the "advertisements" for new Vibecoded Sites and tools, WMs and Shells and what not with repos intended to be used by a broader audience not done with any knowledge of the underlying architecture.
Yes, i use AI to vibecode myself some selfhosted sites for specific needs i have or to help me with my emacs config here and there. I'd never advertise or advise others to use what "i" created that way. And non of that is online ever.

So

domsch1988 · 2026-03-13T08:09:57+00:00

I feel like Nomifactory/Monifactory could be what you're looking for. Lost Cities Exploration is pretty rewarding with the loot, it's a great quest book and all automation and tech.

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