I didn’t realize nheko is an application. It’s a bit a weird question to ask someone else to choose between email or an application. Howe can we decide this? The person knows best what works for them. And why can the person choose only one? It’s not exclusive technology, one can do both… I’m really confused.

What do you want choose? An application? “Element” is a standard one and according to the webpage performance is a focus. I can’t say how well it works on your machine though. I don’t use Matrix anymore and the only way I used it was in the browser. So this list is more of pointing you in the right direction, rather than a personal recommendation.

• You can use Matrix in your browser: https://app.element.io/
• Or same software to install using it independent from your browser: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/
• Alternative browser based client that should be light on resources: https://hydrogen.element.io/
• A list of clients: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
• CLI / Terminal based client written in blazingly fast Rust, if you really need a fast one and can live without a GUIf: https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander-rs

Actually pretty good reason.

Why would you want do that?

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Miscellaneous-Commands

Add to your .bashrc following lines:

bind '"\C- ":shell-expand-line'
bind '"\C-x":edit-and-execute-command'

• Control+Space: Now you can expand variables, aliases, !492 history commands, the tilde without executing the line. Now you can make changes to the command.
• Control+x: Opens the current command in an external editor (such as Vi, or whatever is setup for VISUAL or EDITOR variable). Now you can edit the command and if you save the temporary file and exit editor, the modified command will be executed. If you do not save, the unmodified command before launching the editor will be executed.

I didn’t say “personal package manager”. Do you refer to the part “basically my own AUR package”? pacman, the package manager of Archlinux that is also used in EndeavourOS, allows for installing custom packages. There is another tool part of Archlinux that let you build custom packages. These custom packages can be installed on your system, which is then seen like a normal package and handled this way with all the defined dependencies and information about the package. You can install the package from a local location, it does not need to be online repository.

Then you can upload it to the AUR, which is exactly that: Arch User Repository. But you don’t have to upload it. Either way such a custom build package is what I referred to my own AUR package. For more information see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

I can’t imagine Supercomputers to use a mainstream operating system such as Ubuntu. But clearly people even put Windows on it, so I shouldn’t be surprised…

Probably. I’m definitely not a fan of Garuda Linux (never used it to be honest). The styling and the bloat are not my taste. But the most important thing to me is, if I can trust those developers and maintainers? And I don’t trust most non common distros. Looking at their webpage, they also have a KDE lite version with less bloat and bare minimum packages to get started. This is actually awesome!

EndeavorOS. Because I wanted to have a rolling release distribution that is always up to date, and one that is good supported by maintainers and community. Good documentation is very important to me. And I trust the team behind EndeavorOS and Archlinux.

Also the manual approach of many things and the package manager based on Archlinux is very nice. I also like the building of custom packages that is then installed with the package manager (basically my own AUR package). The focus on terminal stuff without too much bloat by default is also a huge plus.

LFS isn’t a distribution. It’s documentation only. (I know you were joking, but as an ex Reddit user I remembered my origin where I came from and got triggered hard.)

Thanks, lol. I hope they realize soon that Rust is not forced to be used. Also the US government didn’t even talk about Rust only, but memory safe languages and listed Rust as an example.

You wouldn’t be first who asks this. There are attempts and instructions how to do this, step by step. But I’m not confident enough to recommend any of those. Maybe they are outdated or your machine requires some setup which is not covered. I do not recommend doing this, but if you have no time to setup a new OS from scratch, then at least make a backup before attempting any of this.

I would ask those on the official EndeavourOS forum, which is active and helpful: https://forum.endeavouros.com/

EndeavourOS. I used Manjaro for 1.5 years before switching to EndeavourOS. (BTW before that I was also using Ubuntu for 13 years in row…) I couldn’t be happier. It’s closer to Archlinux and a bit more focused on terminal, but overall hassle free for me. Updates come quicker and not in batches like Manjaro did. Which means more often new versions of packages and no compatibility or other issues with AUR caused by Manjaro. What desktop environment did you use before? KDE is pretty good on EndeavourOS and what I would recommend.

1. No opt-out or opt-in telemetry.
2. Same package manager and repository from Archlinux.
3. You have already experience with Manjaro and the Archlinux stuff, so going to a similar system like EndeavourOS makes sense. However its a bit more terminal oriented, with a few GUI related help.

Because of your prior experience with Manjaro, I think EndeavourOS is a good candidate you should have in mind.

Approximately 100 years once or twice, depending on how urgent it is.

I think Mastodon is heavily “following” based. I mean you need to find people to follow. I think you can even follow hashtags, which is pretty neat. So lookup if your favorite content creators may have a Mastodon account and follow them. And make sure to enable or disable the “world” view and not just looking at your own feed, if you don’t have much yet. Just some random thoughts. If you are already familiar with this, then apology.

As for the Matrix collaboration, I didn’t think about this working between Lemmy and Matrix. But it make sense. Because there is also some sort of “bridge” setup you can do between Matrix to Discord. I’m not much familiar with that, just read about it.

All of this is neat. But its biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: Being not centralized. It’s kinda like on Linux (and I don’t mean the distributions only). I just wish the entire Fediverse would already cooperate. The lack of a centralized place that has all instances and technologies that are based on Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, video platforms and so on) is a huge missed oppurnity.

Even Instagram, a technology not even based on Mastodon or Fediverse, can cooperate with Mastodon. I never used Instagram, so not sure how this looks in reality. But I thought its worth mentioning here.

Google is using Rust more and more in Android, Chromium. So its in Googles direct interest to have a better interoperability between Rust and C++. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ and https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-hails-move-to-rust-for-huge-drop-in-memory-vulnerabilities are articles talking why Google likes using Rust.

“Dualbooting” is a nice analogy, haha. No, I switched completely over from the previous main ones: No Reddit and no Twitter. But I still use dedicated forums for specific topics/software, such as a Romhacking (retro game modding) community or RetroArch forum. Unfortunately not everyone is on Lemmy (or Mastodon, but I stopped using Mastodon too). So for me it is Lemmy/Beehaw and a few standalone forums.

Wait I also started using Discord from time to time, but dislike this as a main application. There is an alternative called “Matrix”, which is similar to what Lemmy and Mastodon are respective to their technology. But its not that widespread, so stopped using it too. Maybe will comeback to it. I know there is BlueSky, which is a main competitor to Mastodon. Just didn’t have enough interested into it yet, as there is Mastodon already.

• Reddit <> Lemmy and Kbin
• Twitter <> Mastodon
• Discord <> Matrix

(I’m sorry if I’m the 100th person to ask this on here…)

Fine with me, as I didn’t saw any of the 99th person asking this before.

with a generous $1M contribution from Google

1M only? Google pays 500M (half a billion Dollar) to their rival Mozilla Firefox. Each year. I don’t want to make this a Mozilla thread, just want to say they could have done more than just a million Dollar for Rust. Given that Google uses Rust as well.

You keep ignoring what I’m saying…

No. There are cases which is an error of the operating system, not the operator. Windows in example did that recently (not my machine, I do not use Windows) by ruining grub. Saying it was a bug, but we believe its an attempt of Microsoft ruining grub with intention.

Just because you did not have any problems does not mean its the optimal and easiest way. Also having all operating systems and multiple Kernels and options to boot from for every OS in one boot menu is a mess. I don’t want that ever again. Right now I have 5 entries for only one OS. Imagine adding Windows or another OS to it.

Its much easier and cleaner to separate each OS to its own menu, with the way I described earlier. Also much easier to replace an OS this way or make modifications.