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[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 88 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I saw a post on the Mastodony side of Fediverse saying "Some people tweak their Linux installs in the same way other people tend to their home gardens" and it gave me 2d6 of psychic damage because it was just true and was also about me.

I don't even hop distros, I just like fucking around with the configs and shit of the distro I'm already at. It's -- How I procrastinate. Rather than do work I play around with reorganizing my work setup.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 35 points 8 months ago

Get into Home Assistant. A whole new world of tinkering and reconfiguring, with the added stress of real world "Why didn't that extremely complex automation controlling my porch lights work?"

[-] techwithjake@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Job site got canceled, away from home, nothing else to do. Spent the last few hours cleaning up and "perfecting" my Home Assistant. I'm sure I'll do it again in a few days.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

It's never perfect!

I have a temperature sensor in box here that I haven't yet installed...hmmmmmwhere could I put it!

Actually if Shelly ever gets me the stuff I ordered IN NOVEMBER I would replace the one for the pellet stove with that...but last night I saw a Tuya Zigbee air quality monitor on Amazon for under $25 that would be even better...

Oh wait, I installed a Zigbee switch the other day but haven't added the lights it controls to my floor plan view!

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[-] hansl@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You need a .git folder at the root of your system.

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[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 42 points 8 months ago

You won't believe this, but I've actually finished configuring my linux

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

There are things I believe. This is not one of those things.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

not believing intensifies

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago
[-] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago

that's the moment you're supposed to change distro.

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

I already finished 10 times. And I probably will be doing 10 times again.

Except you count a windows vm with gpu-passthrough then I am still on it.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I run my emby and jellyfin server, my desktop, printer server, plus a bunch of other shit I can’t think of right now.

If any of that shit doesn’t work, I will be annoyed. So I’m certainly not tinkering with it all the time.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I used to reconfigure things quite a lot while I was still a student. Now with a dayjob, I'm glad if I can just use my laptop to get actual things done. Having previously figured out a really good setup, is very helpful in getting things done, though.

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[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

Once your system setup reaches perfection (it won't), you're finally free to fine-tune VIM to your exact needs.

[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Already done… but now I feel like I need to switch to Neovim… and now I have to research Neovim plugins and configs….

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

god damn it! I was about to say that I'm done configuring after decades and can finally be productive, then I saw your comment. 🤦‍♂️

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 9 months ago
[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 8 months ago

apt hooks get in the way of your thinkering.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Debian will slap you every time you decide to do some deep tinkering, so you develop healthy pavlovian reflexes.

It's the only way to have enough free time to organize my drawers in gridfinity boxes.

[-] CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago

When I am done configuring, I start tinkering!

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

If you are done configuring your system, you did something wrong.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

Or you finally got a girlfriend.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

A weak mind. my linux config comes before my girlfriend!

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[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Pretty much. After I got married and started having kids I just want a PC setup that just works when I want to do anything on it. Without needing to troubleshoot some esoteric issue because apparently my motherboard is on a different revision version that changes the WiFi card to use some shit ass MediaTek card ONLY for that revision and now I can't use WiFi or Bluetooth and I need to troubleshoot the issue for hours.

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[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

I'm actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago

That's why I create new problems constantly

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago
[-] brenticus@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call "tweaking my vimrc" a hobby.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago

Problem I have, is, after I finish tinkering and settle down with my computer for some days/months, then even anything needs fixing or changing I've forgotten how I do it!

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Now you have got a good excuse to setup something to manage your knowledge base.

I recommend markdown:

  • frequently_encountered_issues.md
  • lots of helper scripts scripts
  • Setup guides mostly taken from their respective arch wiki pages but stripped down to only show my custom setup
  • a markdown file per os per machine
  • etc
  • Also link back to the original resources. Still copy them though. The internet is temporary.
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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

My kernel is 3 commits behind... gotta rebuild 😹

[-] SteelCorrelation@lemmy.one 15 points 9 months ago

It never stops. Distro hopping is an addiction for me.

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

You should see a hanna montana asap before it gets incurable.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Oh no...

This is like me with game mods (skyrim). Spent 20 hours modding it just right... spend 10 hours in character creation and more mods for that... move on to another game.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

I've finally stopped distrohopping. I'm now on nobara (used arch before that btw), and don't feel the urge, nor have the energy to distrohop, even though I want to find out what's so great about nix. That said, I still only use my computer for movies, games, and browsing, so I guess the meme still stands.

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

Same. I want to try NixOS, or immutable distros, or a fully containerized system, and I've been meaning to give Gentoo a shot for years as well (I'm not suffering enough on Endeavor, btw). I even got a second drive just so I don't have to throw my current setup away, but I'm just so comfy and everything just works and it'll be so much work to actually give a new system a fair shot.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

When you try to explain to people that ricing isn't a means, it's the end.

[-] ULS@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A new long term release? I'll just start over and try every DE again.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Nah, it's cyclical. We can figure one for a few years, then try out a new promising distro then we can figure that one for a few years...

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I already use it efficiently to configure more stuff.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

I got past that phase a long time ago. I just use Fedora and Debian with mostly defaults

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[-] IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That yak ain't gonna shave itself

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used to be him, missing deadlines to get my xmonad taskbar all spec'd out. Now only "hop" when my LTS is EOL, and i just run the default UI and use tmux for all my tiling since i tend to be mainly on remote systems anyway.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I've used gentoo in my home for 23 years now. The good news is I'm down to system rebuilds once every 18 months or so.

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[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Considering how often I'll dig around in my old elisp files before giving up on using emacs again, I think I've actually spent more time configuring it than using it.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Oh, so you're the person in this video!

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc / https://yewtu.be/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

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