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Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in qutebrowser - All the Cool Kids should try it! by Wahaha
Biggest issue is that there isn't a feature rich adblocker. A basic one is included, but that's it. Other than that, it takes a different mindset. For example there is no build-in password manager. You're supposed to integrate your preferred tools yourself. I like that customization aspect of it. For example opening video links directly in mpv or even downloading videos directly.
Entering text is somewhat cumbersome because of different muscle memory I have from previous browsers. You need to be in 'insert mode', just like in vim, to enter text. Or set up an external editor for that. Clicking inside a textbox brings up a cursor, but you need to press 'i' to start 'insert mode'. Clicking inside the same textbox while being in 'insert mode' takes you out of it again, which makes copy/paste a little annoying.
I'd completely move over to it, if it wasn't for heavy lifting adblocking having become a necessary, though. Last time I checked, extension support was something planned for the future. Not sure how far this has gotten. I'm on an LTS distribution that doesn't have up to date versions of qutebrowser. I meant to switch to a rolling-release one, but haven't done so, yet.
Rambler wrote
Reply to qutebrowser - All the Cool Kids should try it! by Wahaha
Looks good. Have you encountered any issues with it?
Wahaha wrote
Reply to A Brief Review of the Q4OS Linux Distribution by HMTg927
according to Mozilla, Firefox 85.0.1 32-bit requires 512 MB of RAM.
Well, Firefox is currently using 800MB of RAM for me and 5GB of virtual RAM. It's the most memory hungry process I'm running. I don't even have that many tabs open. Only about 20.
Rambler wrote
Reply to A Brief Review of the Q4OS Linux Distribution by HMTg927
Good read, though found a typo, which is easy to do when you're used to dealing with GBs and not MBs:
I found Q4OS to be a very stripped-down distribution of Linux that worked reasonably well on my old PC with 256 GB of RAM a
RAMBLE1 wrote
Reply to sxiv: The Suckless Image Viewer for GNU/Linux by Wahaha
Thanks for sharing
Nyankawaii wrote
Reply to sxiv: The Suckless Image Viewer for GNU/Linux by Wahaha
Yeah, i think luke covered it :) right?
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Arch Linux users: Update your systems thus:
pacman -Sy sudo
The -y
option refreshes the master package database so sudo-1.9.5.p2-1, the fixed version, is available.
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by CyberKat in Best method of converting PDF files to HTML files? by Rambler
Thanks for the resposne. I actually ended up using Calibre to convert to html with some limited success. I think I need to adjust the settings more, as some of the pages had some weird formatting issues with the embedded images and text overlapping them, or in some cases lines not wrapping to the page causing horizontal scroll in the browser.
It's still something I want to get working as I have some great ebooks on alternative construction, gardening, and a lot of homestead and off-grid living stuff that I want to share. Maybe some day soon...
CyberKat wrote
First time posting so take it easy on me please... I use Linux Mint and have found a program back when I was a windows user called Calibre which is an ebook management program. It is a Linux program that normally is in your Software Manager. Among it's features is the ability to convert ebooks to different formats. HTML is one format, I personally use it to convert them to .txt and then use text2wav and Lame to convert them to mp3 as I am an OLD computer user (53) and am slowly going blind. Hope this helps! if you want me to send you my .sh I wrote to handle the .txt to .mp3 process let me know via email fu.killme @ gmail.com
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Broot is a file-manager with image preview by RAMBLE1
Nice.
RAMBLE1 OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Broot is a file-manager with image preview by RAMBLE1
I havent post about broot in order to compare with other file-manager. Broot is another file-manager, that does things diferently, pretty much that!
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Broot is a file-manager with image preview by RAMBLE1
So is ranger: https://ramble.pw/f/linux/1213/ranger-the-aesthetic-way-to-manage-files-on-linux
What are the advantages Broot has over ranger?
gopher wrote
Reply to What Linux GUI file manager are you using? by Rambler
I just use Nemo, when I used to use more cli programs, I liked ranger
podnas wrote
Reply to What Is Pleroma? by Wahaha
Pretty cool, wasnt familiar with this software !
Nyankawaii wrote
Reply to GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40 by Rambler
I like gnome but i aint using 4.0
MasterDestroyer wrote
Reply to Whats your Linux flavor of choice? by Rambler
arch and debian
my favorite distro that i don't use anymore is gobolinux
MasterDestroyer wrote
Reply to What Is Pleroma? by Wahaha
eyy i just installed a pleroma server yesterday! it's pretty dope
MasterDestroyer wrote
Reply to software that sucks less | suckless.org by Wahaha
i love suckless. i'm devoted to dwm and ive been using the same compile of it since like 2012
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote (edited )
Reply to software that sucks less | suckless.org by Wahaha
I'm very happy with Suckless Image Viewer (sxiv) and a fork of the Suckless Terminal that does the solarized color scheme (st-solarized-scrollback in the Arch User Repository). Minimalist, keyboard-friendly, and capable. Good software!
EgregiousPomegranate wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted152 in RANGER: the aesthetic way to manage files on Linux by Wahaha
You want fast?
AWiggerInTime wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted152 in RANGER: the aesthetic way to manage files on Linux by Wahaha
rust
Miss me with that gay shit
But since we're talking about similar stuff, lf is literally a faster ranger.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted152 in RANGER: the aesthetic way to manage files on Linux by Wahaha
I'd switch to nnn, but ranger is fast enough for me.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Whats your favorite terminal program? by Rambler
I'm currently using urxvt, since it was one of the ones compatible with w3m-img which is used to display picture previews in my file manager ranger.
I want to move over to st, though, since it's a suckless tool and I like the suckless philosophy.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Whats your Linux flavor of choice? by Rambler
Currently it's Mint with a Mate-i3 combo. But I want to move over to Artix, so that's what's on my Laptop.
Rambler wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in qutebrowser - All the Cool Kids should try it! by Wahaha
Thanks for the response. I may take it for a test drive in a VM and see how I like it. As far as ad-blocking goes, can always use an ad-blocking VPN... I know a guy offering just that. Ha!
I've added to my list of "things to check out" so I'll try to get around to it this week.