I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!

Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.

I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.

Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.

I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.

Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.

What’s your unusual setup like?

  • @[email protected]MEnglish
    12•7 months ago

    I use Wayfire (which not many people use for unknown reasons), and one of the things I like to do with it is have a fiery drop-down Kitty terminal. :)

    I haven’t seen anyone else do a drop-down Kitty in Wayfire before, so I’d like to boldly claim I’m the first one to do so. :) Yes I know it’s pointless, but it’s also cool, and it’s fast thanks to being fully GPU-accelerated, so why not?

    And no, I don’t use the fire effect for other windows - that’d get real old, real fast. Thanks to Wayfire, I can define window rules so the effect only applies to my drop-down kitty. Also, my regular kitty windows open normally, without any fancy effects - and it’s possible to differentiate this thanks to kitty allowing you to specify an custom appid.

    I also use doas instead of sudo. I just got tired always fighting with sudoers, doas is so much more easier to setup and work with.

    Finally, I use grc to colorize all my log output. Makes my journactl looks nice. :)

    • CyclohexaneOPM
      1•7 months ago

      Wayfire is not tiling right? I imagine its a similar reason people didn’t use open box much. It’s a non-tiling window system, and people who go that route tend to to full DE. But I am with you. I wonder why not many more people use them.

      Doas is cool. I actually switched to it shortly before ditching both it and sudo, and deciding to rely on a users/groups system.

      • @[email protected]M
        2•7 months ago

        Yes Wayfire is a floating WM, but it does have a tiling module which supports simple tiling (up/down/left/right/top/bottom), and you can even define window rules for automatic tile and workspace assignment.

        Of course, this is probably not enough for hardcore tilers, but personally don’t think I’d ever need more than 4 tiles per screen - and if one or more of those tiles is a terminal, I can easily multiplex it using Kitty’s built-in splitter, or Zellij.