I have my NixOS set up the same way, with the CachyOS kernel and the CachyOS Proton for Steam.

on another machine I have regular Arch but also uses the CachyOS Kernel and I also use the CachyOS repos for that. Honestly it’s CachyOS without all the extra bloat. And that’s my own gripe about CachyOS itself. its’ great, it just comes with a lot of crap attached to it making the install one of the longest out of any distro I’ve ever used. they really need to trim the fat on it.

What I would suggest to people is install Arch with the CachyOS Kernel and Repo. you’ll essentially have CachyOS without all the crap.

yeah last week I tried Nobara again after not using it for several months. wanted the KDE Plasma 6.6 update. nope. GE hadn’t done the monthly sync yet. when is the monthly sync? whenever he feels like it. Sorry I can’t use a distro that’s based on the whims of one guy. don’t get me wrong I like GE, I like his Protons, but Nobara needs a team behind it.

since Plasma 6.5 I just daily drive it now. prior to that I was all about WM’s be it Herbstluftwm, Sway, Niri, whatever but after awhile I just got tired of configuring them or dealing with quirks about each one and what have you. Plasma just does everything I need and I don’t have to think about it. And you can even get it to tile now be it manual or dynamic. Plus you can theme the hell out of it. It just works. Plus Konsole has become my favourite terminal. just don’t see a point in using other stuff anymore.

for repacks it’s mixed. some work fine, others not so much. Generally you want to try and install them via Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher. Like the newest Star Trek Voyager game I couldn’t get installed at all. I’m on Arch Linux and tried it via Lutris. The fitgirl repack just doesn’t complete the install for whatever reason. I think I just need to fiddle around with different proton versions but I got tired of dealing with it.

I’m honestly surprised no one is talking about this more. It’s not like all these guys just suddenly decided “you know what? we should stop raping children” after Epstein was “caught”. Someone else took over, someone else is running the show now, not like all that child raping and blackmail was going to stop.

yes I use DOOM Emacs and will never use another editor. It’s my IDE, my Email Client, my document writer, my File Manager, and my Terminal. don’t need anything else.

Nano or as I like to call it “The Sudo Editor”

well to be fair the previous two times at least they came up with some kind of excuse for it. this time? nadda.

there are a couple youtube channels I recently discovered that do just that. take REALLY old computers and parts and try to make them semi-viable for modern computing. and I’m talking stuff that is easily nearly 30+ years old.

BoomerTec and Action Retro. BoomerTec I really like as he’ll just pick up random old PCs and explain all the parts inside and even give a history on them. His vids are like really awesome relaxing sunday morning watches. He even finds FOSS stuff that will still work on really old pcs. because of his channel I even discovered forks of firefox that are still actively developed for 32bit or community builds of Windows XP that are still updated today. For example his recent vid he bought a PC from 1998 off Ebay and got Firefox, Photoshop, and OpenOffice working on it. even games.

Action Retro pretty much does the same thing but with a focus on Linux. He’s done videos of taking like old Compaqs from the 90s and getting linux running on them. Really impressive stuff.

Veronica Explains is also good for this. Her video of taking old chromebooks and getting linux working on them is very detailed and thorough. Extremely easy to follow even for first timers. Also what I like about Veronica Explains is her videos remind me of old TechTV Screen Savers and Call for Help.

honestly I just looked at what others have done with qobuz-player which is a TUI qobuz player and pretty much copied and pasted that.

yeah I recently built myself a music player because I was just so disappointed with all the available options on Linux. Nothing had EVERYTHING I wanted. Many had really crappy shuffles or just didn’t include one at all. many just wouldn’t play the entirety of your music collection and most simply wouldn’t do both online streaming and local music playback. So I built one that’s TUI based that does everything I want and it’s perfect. Allows me to play music from QoBuz, my Navidrome server, or just local music files OR I can play all three making a “SUPER” music library. Shuffle that ACTUALLY shuffles the ENTIRE collection. search feature, integration with soulseek to download music to either my local machine or navidrome and qobuz search to add to that playlist.

I’m not going to release it because A. like i said it’s perfect for me and B. I dont’ want to deal with users git issues or having to deal with other devs wanting to contribute. It works, it’s mine, and that’s that. will never see the light of day.

I’ve tried the qbz flatpak but noticed it was a bit slow and buffered a lot when compared to just using the site. However seeing that TUI you posted, I will be setting that up today and checking it out. thanks, had no clue someone built a TUI for it.

Yeah I also wanted the blur/dim for unfocused windows. I tried going the DWL route because there’s a patch to do just that but it’s an absolute headache to get working on NixOS. I mean I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me, just kept failing to build. so I settled with River.

Plasma has improved A LOT in the past year. Like a year ago I hated it. now? I daily drive it. I hate to use this phrase but everything just works.

I was kinda disappointed with the 6.6 release as I really just want dedicated virtual desktops per monitor but their compromise actually isn’t that bad. I just had to turn off animation for changing workspaces and it’s fine. Even tiling works A LOT better on Plasma than it used to and dare I saw kinda works better/is more smooth than Sway and the like and I’m not even using krohnkite. you can quickly toggle the splits for windows and even do vim style navigation between windows. you can even do vim navigation with windows that aren’t tiled.

Plus the stuff they have packaged in is just better than most alternatives out there. I love Konsole. it has everything I need. and Kate is also a fantastic IDE you can REALLY customize that is slept on by many people. Dolphin is great too. It’s nice having a DE that just has all the stuff you need right out of the box and you don’t really have to change any of the defaults.

All KDE has to do, literally all they have to do, is make dedicated virtual desktops/workspaces per monitor and i’d be happy. that’s it. I would daily drive Plasma if they just did that.