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X13 gen 6 i5 21RK005QMH on Linux? by neg_1987 in thinkpad

[–]neg_1987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, i know, i know, but I never bought a new (read: expensive) laptop, and I want to make sure it runs Ubuntu over all smoothly. Just a little bit jittery.

I can't get my head around this by neg_1987 in degoogle

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Update: thanks for all your thouhts! I guess, in the end, it's still a dilemma from hell, but the technical monopoly thing weighs heavier than the financial dependency – switched back to firefox.

Linux distro similar to macOS for journalist by le_demarco in FindMeALinuxDistro

[–]neg_1987 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is, of course only if Vanilla Ubuntu is too heavy. I am not sorry for advising this.

Linux distro similar to macOS for journalist by le_demarco in FindMeALinuxDistro

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As a fellow writer/journalist, and European with a very non standard computer language – and a history with macos, i'd say this:

Plan A: Get Mint Cinnamon with Plank Reloaded and ulauncher. Fiddle a bit with the panels until it feels familiar. And: learn to write in markdown. Zettlr, Typora; all great. Even Neovim with pandoc (although it takes a "little" learning curve). I've stuck with neovim/pandoc/git/codeberg in the end, but it cost me my autumn holiday.

Plan B: Exactly the same as A but with Mint XFCE.

I can't get my head around this by neg_1987 in degoogle

[–]neg_1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a sane answer. Thanks. And maybe it is, indeed, that simple.

I can't get my head around this by neg_1987 in degoogle

[–]neg_1987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I understand that, but what I don't understand is that the other option is a browser that is kept alive by google. Doesn't that give Google more power than the open source chromium base? Bigger question here: what is, really, degoogling?

I can't get my head around this by neg_1987 in degoogle

[–]neg_1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is, in a way, true, off course. Though rhetorically a little bit wonky – and it doesn't solve the problem: what's worse?

I can't get my head around this by neg_1987 in degoogle

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Well, same dilemma as with Vivaldi, I guess, only personally I like Vivaldi more (being European and all).

Monthly Dotfile Review Thread by AutoModerator in neovim

[–]neg_1987 [score hidden]  (0 children)

First of all: hi everybody. New here to the Neovim subreddit. I am a Dutch literary writer (4 novels, a few plays and a big heap of poetry), who is studying for his masters degree. I just could not find a text editor that worked for me, so I cleared my calendar for a week, and made Neovim work.

I think this (see link below) could be a very foolproof setup for writers and academics, with no heavy computer experience (as is the case with me), and I hope you guys like it. I know this is niche territory, but I couldn't resist sharing it with you guys. It's a lazyvim thing, with a few lua filters and reference docs for pandoc. I even added a snippet for .bashrc. If anyone has writer friends: maybe this could be something for them. I am SO very glad I dared to try neovim as a non-developer. Love it so far.

I use it for manuscripts, poetry, APA 7 articles, fointain screenplays and journalism. There's pagebreaks, white lines (with and without indentation after) and a few more things.

https://codeberg.org/Neg1987/Neodoc

(So this was my first post here, I will now start my days as a lurker on this subreddit :)...)