wow thanks for noticing, this means my instance is officially one year old. Time to make a meta post! :D

Super, that’s a complete guide on how to start with Voyager, thank you so much! 😁

Thanks so much for that detailed explanation!

Whooo the Voyager, so nice! That’s been on my list for quite a while now, must be so handy. If only that price could come down a bit :)

20 wpm is brutal! That brings back memories from the dvorak struggles haha. So frustrating. But a good strategy of yours, to do the switch along with the voyager, that way the frustration isn’t focused on one particular thing which can then be easily tossed aside.

Ergonomics are important to me too, as I’m not really a spring chicken any more. I already switched to a trackball mouse, as that gave me the most problems in my hand muscles, they’ve gone entirely ever since. But my posture at the desk is still an issue, so voyager might help me out there.

I also see Colemak is more modern (than dvorak) and keeps a lot of the punctuation and shortcut keys in the same position compared to qwerty, that’s encouraging. I also see -DH moves d and h so the vim shortcuts remain? Ingenious, absolutely perfect! I feel giddy now, I might give Colemak-DH a try this weekend (and hopefully longer).

Vim had quite a few learning resources, little games to make me get used to the bindings/motions. Did you use similar games or exercises to train your Colemak-DH muscle memory?

backed up somewhere

yea they’re in a git repo, one of the benefits of doing this

I don’t think it will be a matter of combining, more of commenting out one import while uncommenting the other (I hope 😆)

Different shortcuts, so custom setups for everything hmm. I don’t think NixOS has much if any advantage here :)

Have you been doing Colemak for long? I’ve always wanted to get off this qwerty, but the brief stint over at dvorak wasn’t too great. But I’ve since pushed through learning vim … somewhat, seems a similar wall of frustration. I might be up for another challenge.

Why did you choose Colemak?

hmm those configs get added to the nix files, not sure how I leverage that include directive in such an environment. Should be fun to find out!

NixOS wasn’t that bad. I’m not that familiar with the nitty-gritty of Linux so yes it was tough the first days. Setting up everything just right, recreating the Sway layout from before. Still, once that works, it’s smooth sailing. I’ve not yet had the misfortune of having to do a reinstall, perhaps I’ll reconsider then 🤣

I switched to nix not too long ago, and I must say, it’s been a smooth experience. I can’t imagine removing DMS to install the other one via apt or pacman would be safe for the niri config. NixOS could give me a clean separation. And if it doesn’t work, the rollback is easy, with 0 impact on my niri or DMS configs. My days of adventure are over I guess :)

I’m on nixOS, I wonder if I can easily swap DMS/Noctalia in/out via the flakes, to check the differences myself. I feel an evening or weekend project coming up :D Thanks for the tip!

haha indeed, why reinvent the wheel :D I hadn’t heard of Noctalia, it looks beautiful. Once I’m done gawking over DMS, I might try switching :)

Yea that 100 searches runs out really quickly! That’s how they get you: offer a great service for free with limits, a very cheap subscription to switch to, and within months you’re on it :D But I do like it. Upvoting, downvoting sources so they move up or down in each subsequent ranking, or blocking sources outright. All very convenient!

As for the bars, waybar on the EOS version, but what the vanilla sway came with, I can’t remember. Also, I made the switch to niri+DMS last week, saying goodbye to Sway after many years. Mainly for the extra workspaces, as the 9 in sway was too limited.

from this to this

I used EndeavourOS for a long time. I liked it mainly for the Sway config making it all so nice out of the box. And of course the easy install.

Our hosting company has it rough too, constant barrage of emails that this or that node will be down due to updates.

What if this is the new normal? I reckon newer models won’t suddenly stop discovering flaws, right?

After half a year of using it as main driver, I’m still loving nixOS. My entire sway config is in a git repo now, along with the rest of my system config. So nice not having to scrounge around for all the different dotfiles to back up, just the flakes directory.

Do I need to temporarily use a tool not installed? nix-shell to the rescue. Do I need a special shell with commands for the projects I’m currently working on? I just add a .nix file to the project and nix-shell comes to the rescue again. So elegant.

Looks awesome, but no cardDAV support it seems :(