alias v=vim. There, just saved you two keystrokes.

That could break some peoples’ dotfile management, e.g. symlinks or git repos. I’d say deprecation notice and reading from both, at least for a while, is better.

The DEs listed for a distro will be ones you can get out of the box, i.e. you install the distro and it already has the DE. However, you can then install pretty much any DE/WM on pretty much any distro. Most of the time, you’ll also get a login screen where you can choose between different DEs, so you can try multiple on the same distro to see how you like them.

Most of the ‘random desktops’ will be window managers, there are just a few main DEs, which each have a window manager bundled in. If you take one of the separate window managers (which can be tiling, stacking, or a mix) you’ll just have a bit more work to do to make it like you want, but they can have more customisation than full DEs. You can make most window managers look like pretty much any DE, but not necessarily the other way around. If you look at !unixporn@lemmy.ml, most of those are window managers. Saying they’re confusing to understand and you don’t want to have to customise them to make them look nice and add any separate programs you need for a full system is fair, but saying they’re ugly is kinda nonsensical, since you can make them look however you like.

As for why some distros’ Plasmas look different, that’s just because it is itself quite customisable (from what I hear, the most customisable of the mainstream DEs). So if you install XeroLinux, you could customise it to look like stock Plasma, and vice versa.

Long story short, don’t choose a distro based on their default DE or vice versa, don’t disregard window managers out of hand (but do if you just want a full out-of-the-box environment), and look at different distros’ customisations, as well as !unixporn@lemmy.ml and similar, to see what DEs can look like you want, but again you don’t have to decide distro based on that.

You can a bit, but that will be limited and will differ by browser. Look at something like this to do it: https://medium.com/@ross.angus/styleable-select-box-replacement-in-pure-css-and-semantic-html-1f38a400b285

You can’t style options, as they’re browser-dependent and there isn’t an agreed standard. You’d have to use a replacement, which provides the functionality with other components.

Then, to keep it open, you should be able to toggle classes and states in the inspector. I’m Firefox, it’s above the style inspector, labelled as .cls and :hov, I believe (I’m on mobile at the moment).

Seems like it. The article also mentioned that there are only 73 pairs available, so it sounds like Mozilla has to explicitly define what Chrome extensions corresponds to what Firefox extension.

Instead of importing the Chrome extension directly, Firefox is installing the Firefox version of the extension from Mozilla’s own extension store.

Seems like it’s just for making the switch from Chrome smoother, rather than being useful for long-time Firefox users.

I haven’t used tomb and I don’t think I really have a usecase for this, but I respect the on-brand command aliases.

Eh, if you vote Republican, complain about things getting worse, then vote Democrat, that’s changing your mind. If I saw someone with that sticker, I’d assume they regret the decision and won’t be getting another one. Being able to change your opinion with new information really shouldn’t be discouraged.

Yep, that was it. Thanks for the reminder.

It works great for me on Arch with Hyprland, even though that really isn’t designed with touch in mind. I think there are some programs that provide touch gestures generically (egg something comes to mind?), but I’ve never needed them. I’m sure if you go with Gnome or something it would work great, so long as the touchscreen is recognised properly (I’ve never had issues, but that doesn’t say much about if you would). I’d just get a live USB with whatever you would install, and see if it physically works. If it does, I’m sure there’s a DE/WM that fits the workflow you want.

Thanks for the reply. I’ve only had to use Django solo, so haven’t had that issue since I know my own configuration, but I can see that would be problematic. What you say about the community though is certainly not what I would expect. Quite interesting, I suppose I’ll have to have a better look now… Or, rather, add it to the list of things to have a look at.

Is one of the other framework’s you’ve used Django, and if so, how do they compare? I’ve never used Rails, but as far as I know, it’s a similar concept, with batteries included and MVC architecture.

If there isn’t anything else that makes it better, I would personally recommend something like Django just because it’s Python, which isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. If you are having issues with Python, the answer is pobably a google away, and if you want to do something other than webdev, it’s more likely to be in Python (AI/ML, data science, etc. mainly), including if you want to integrate something into a website. As far as I’m aware, Ruby’s pretty much only been used with Rails, and both are waning in popularity - as you say, you yourself have moved away.

That being said, I don’t know Rails so that’s all conjecture. If you tell me it’s got something Django doesn’t that makes it easier to use, I’ll take that back.

You could do that at the firmware level, with QMK or ZMK macros (or, presumably, whatever other firmware). It might be a long one, but launching an application or the like could just be typing the combination that runs it. I haven’t used KDE, but something like super, then type the name, then enter, should work.

Having said that, a quick look at keyd proposed by the other replier does seem like it has more than enough capability, and if you have one setup you want to use it for and not move the keyboard between computers, it very well might be the better choice for you.

You might also contemplate Cloudflare R2. It’s compatible with S3, so if you have a library that expects S3, R2 should also work, and can be cheaper (and maybe faster? Not so sure about how they store it across their edge network). They’ve got a price calculator too here.

And just to explicitly point out, your code’s also better because of the use of the standard traits. It took me a while to get into the habit, but using what’s already there is always a good idea.

That seems like strong premature optimisation. Perhaps worth a note, but I’d presume the majority of people the majority of the time wouldn’t need to worry about that.