Just after I switched 100% of my dev work to Linux, I used to switch distros every other week either out of curiosity, bad driver support, or bad UX. Once I made the bold move and finally switched to Arch, the distro churn has come to an end. Since I'm in 100% control and have a good understanding of how things work (and what actually works), I never felt the need to search for a new distro again.
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Thanks Grzegorz, great to hear you found "your one distro"!
I have an Arch installation somewhere around everytime and try new distros on my other maschine.
Currently I run Deepin Desktop Environment on my Arch installation with a couple of mods. Which DE are you using at the moment?
And do you use multiple monitors with Arch? I tried out some stuff and did not find a convenient solution for 2 monitor setup for now.
What I tried was the xrandr commands but either the resolution was not the highest supported or I could not read red color on dark backgrounds.
I'm running i3 coupled with polybar and rofi. Most of the time I use only 1 monitor as switching between workspaces is instant and the other monitor is always distracting me. When I want to use more than 1 monitor, then I just type xrandr commands by hand e.g. xrandr --output DP2-2 --auto --right-of eDP1, never had any issues with that.
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I used i3 only on a blackarch installation once, would you mind share a (anonymized) screenshot of it here? :)
Maybe I will go with workspaces then also. I use 2 monitors at work (requirements / chat / stuff on one, IDE / remote session on the other) and since then use this setup at home also. Maybe it is time to switch to workspaces at home.
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The quality is obviously "just for personal use", but maybe you can pick up a couple of tricks.
There's also github.com/goyozi/playbooks , which sets up the entire desktop if you have a VM with fresh Arch installation to experiment on (the default user/pw is grzegorzz/changeme).
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This playlist is much as you need for initial configuration and knowing how to use and configure i3. I stand behind this tutorial because my friend, who was completely new to Linux, managed to learn i3 from this playlist.
Feel free to text me some time if you want to understand what my config does, lol. I have comments here and there, but if you already know how to configure i3, you will understand how it works.
Started coding at the age of 13, now a professional software engineer and Scrum Master, creating and maintaining enterprise solutions. Eat - Sleep - Code - Lift - Repeat 💪🏾
Just after I switched 100% of my dev work to Linux, I used to switch distros every other week either out of curiosity, bad driver support, or bad UX. Once I made the bold move and finally switched to Arch, the distro churn has come to an end. Since I'm in 100% control and have a good understanding of how things work (and what actually works), I never felt the need to search for a new distro again.
Thanks Grzegorz, great to hear you found "your one distro"!
I have an Arch installation somewhere around everytime and try new distros on my other maschine.
Currently I run Deepin Desktop Environment on my Arch installation with a couple of mods. Which DE are you using at the moment?
And do you use multiple monitors with Arch? I tried out some stuff and did not find a convenient solution for 2 monitor setup for now.
What I tried was the xrandr commands but either the resolution was not the highest supported or I could not read red color on dark backgrounds.
I'm running i3 coupled with polybar and rofi. Most of the time I use only 1 monitor as switching between workspaces is instant and the other monitor is always distracting me. When I want to use more than 1 monitor, then I just type xrandr commands by hand e.g.
xrandr --output DP2-2 --auto --right-of eDP1, never had any issues with that.I used i3 only on a blackarch installation once, would you mind share a (anonymized) screenshot of it here? :)
Maybe I will go with workspaces then also. I use 2 monitors at work (requirements / chat / stuff on one, IDE / remote session on the other) and since then use this setup at home also. Maybe it is time to switch to workspaces at home.
Here you go:
I moved a VS Code window next to the browser, so that you can see the lovely gaps and that I've got a Solarized brain recently :D
Wow this looks pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Right now I am convinced to change to i3.
Project for the next couple of days (of course with the same nice gap between the borders 😜)
Thanks!
If you want a reference, you can take a look at:
github.com/goyozi/dotfiles
The quality is obviously "just for personal use", but maybe you can pick up a couple of tricks.
There's also github.com/goyozi/playbooks , which sets up the entire desktop if you have a VM with fresh Arch installation to experiment on (the default user/pw is
grzegorzz/changeme).Wow that is full service! Thank you so much!
Will set it up this evening and play around with it a little bit. Maybe I will borrow some tricks :)
If you want to switch to i3wm, this is the best i3wm introduction ever: youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4&li...
This playlist is much as you need for initial configuration and knowing how to use and configure i3. I stand behind this tutorial because my friend, who was completely new to Linux, managed to learn i3 from this playlist.
If you want to peak into my configuration, I have multiple tricks in there, so here it is: github.com/Godje/dotfiles/tree/mas...
Feel free to text me some time if you want to understand what my config does, lol. I have comments here and there, but if you already know how to configure i3, you will understand how it works.
I love arch. I had the same scenario and I am settled on Arch eventually.
Interesting that so many of us settle with Arch.
Do you mind me asking which Desktop Environment you are using at the moment?
Already got a pretty awesome suggestion from @goyo but I want to see some other configs aswell :)
That's exactly how I felt.