I think Niri has that feature, but maybe I’m wrong. I’ll definitely have to look into MaoMao later, I did not know that it had scrolling. Thanks for the heads up. It seems like more WMs are supporting this nowadays.

Understandable, I just have a tendency to raw dog everything I try out with reckless abandon. Probably not the best thing for most people to do. I’d recommend it if you’re curious. I found it rather easy to mess around with, and surprisingly usable out of the box. But who knows, I’m deep into messing with this sort of stuff, so I don’t know how universal my POV is.

If you just want a sneak peak of the workflow itself, or already use GNOME, this entire compositor was inspired by the PaperWM extension.

Any “hate” in regards to you using Ubuntu is more likely to do with controversy involving Canonical than it is you using a beginner-friendly distro. People are more likely to be kinder to the Mint user.

Oh whoa, I recognize that name! Didn’t know you had a sick setup like this. Awesome stuff.

I think the comment speaks for itself. There wasn’t anything deep behind it. It literally just mean “Linux users look at BSD users how Windows users look at Linux.” Bewildered, mystified maybe? It’s just lower on the “food chain”, and they are surprised to see people using it because it’s missing “X” feature they can’t live without, for many people that being gaming. I’m in the same camp.

It was not a comment on the quality of the software, as I have never used it. I would love to tinker with it one day to see the differences, but I can’t see myself ever switching to it, even if I admire/envy some of the better parts compared to Linux.

BSD is to Linux users what Linux is to Windows users.

Idk. My folders are always decently organized since I’ve been nutty about since I was a kid, but the specific file structures different services can demand is a headache. This is why I prefer more simplistic services without a database, but there’s always trade-offs to be had with both options.

I’m a bit split on it, but I do agree that it can be annoying and when you mess up, services and links you’ve sent to other people don’t work and it can be quite agonizing. It’ll probably get better for me as time goes on, but man it can bite at times.

Tbh setting up all cool frontends has always mystified me but I like minimal terminal interfaces and use stuff like MPD, Yazi, etc. and it seems like a pain to manage this big thing. I think the benefit really sets in when it’s something you’re sharing with others.

Like, I’d love to have all my documents in a folder written in pure markdown via vim, but hedgedoc helps me share and collaborate with my friends. A lot of people who operate these services share them with family, so I imagine ease of use helps. Tracking can be huge for people as well, but idk I just write down my episode list or have a separate tracker app.

Speaking of, Yamtrack is really good for that.

Overall, I feel like minimal UIs really help me focus instead of getting lost, but sharing my media via Jellyfin is one of the few reasons I want to do this in the first place. I like providing access to obscure media that’s hard to get ahold of for my friends. So I’d say I’m a mix. Minimal stuff for myself, but interfaces for friend/external access.