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16 votes
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How do I sync my dotfiles between PC and laptop?
I've been struggling with this for a long time. I want to keep my workflow consistent independent of my "workstation", and have identical dotfiles (like .bashrc, .vimrc etc.) on different devices....
I've been struggling with this for a long time. I want to keep my workflow consistent independent of my "workstation", and have identical dotfiles (like .bashrc, .vimrc etc.) on different devices.
So... How you personally deal with this issue, and what should I do?
Thanks!
12 votes -
Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
34 votes -
Has anyone ever used NixOS as daily-drive distro?
I'm impressed by reproducibility of NixOS, configuration mechanism and Nix package manager, but how it would be in daily-drive use? Is it worth it?
23 votes -
Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
18 votes -
Share your personal dotfile treats and Unix tool recommendations
I am currently preparing for a new job and cleaning up my dotfile repository. During the process, I had the idea that it would be nice to create a list of amazing tools, aliases, functions, and...
I am currently preparing for a new job and cleaning up my dotfile repository. During the process, I had the idea that it would be nice to create a list of amazing tools, aliases, functions, and recommendations together.
I will start.
First, here is a list of nice tools to
apt-get install
orbrew install
that I can wholeheartedly recommend:nvim
is just an amazing text editor.fzf
is a very good fuzzy finder util. For example, you can quickly find files with it.eza
is a goodls
replacement (and the successor ofexa
).bat
is a great replacement forcat
with nice integrations and many options.stow
is great for managing your dotfiles. Thanks to @TangibleLight for telling me about it some while ago. I really love it.tmux
is a terminal multiplexer, i.e. you can have many sessions in one single terminal window. It's easy to use and super helpful. (When on a mac, I prefer iTerm tabs, though.)nvm
is practically a must if you are working with Node.glow
is an excellent markdown reader.tldr
is a niceman
replacement. (You must runtldr -u
after installing it to update available texts.)z
, an amazing tool for switching directories quickly.
Also, I can recommend Oh My ZSH! which I have been using for years.
Here is a small list of aliases I enjoy (I have 100+ aliases and I tried to pick some others may enjoy as well):
# Serve current dir alias serve="npx serve ." # What's my IP? alias ip="curl --silent --compressed --max-time 5 --url 'https://ipinfo.io/ip' && echo ''" # This should be the default alias mkdir="mkdir -p" # Nice git helpers alias amend="git add . && git commit --amend --no-edit" alias nuke="git clean -df && git reset --hard" # Make which more powerful which='(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot' # This saves so many keystrokes, honestly alias -- +x="chmod +x" # Turns your path into a nice list and prints it alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}' # Map over arguments and run a command # Usage: map <command> # Example: ls | map cat alias map="xargs -n1"
And, finally, here are some fun functions:
# Get cheat sheets for almost anything! # https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh cheat() { WITH_PLUS=$(echo $@ | sed 's/ /+/g') CAT_TOOL=$(command -v batcat || command -v bat || command -v cat) curl "cheat.sh/$WITH_PLUS" | $CAT_TOOL } # Send everything to /dev/null nullify() { "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 } # Create a new dir and enter it mk() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_" } # Create a data URL from a file # Source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions data-url() { local mimeType=$(file -b --mime-type "$1"); if [[ $mimeType == text/* ]]; then mimeType="${mimeType};charset=utf-8"; fi echo "data:${mimeType};base64,$(openssl base64 -in "$1" | tr -d '\n')"; }
74 votes -
PC players must now install BattlEye anticheat to play GTA Online. Steam Deck and Linux users are locked out.
46 votes -
KDE Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of many changes
6 votes -
best way to go about with a script that seems to need both bash and python functionality
Gonna try and put this into words. I am pretty familiar with bash and python. used both quite a bit and feel more or less comfortable with them. My issue is I often do a thing where if I want to...
Gonna try and put this into words.
I am pretty familiar with bash and python. used both quite a bit and feel more or less comfortable with them.
My issue is I often do a thing where if I want to accomplish a task that is maybe a bit complex, I feel like I have to wind up making a script, let's call it
hello_word.sh
but then I also make a script called.hello_world.py
and basically what I do is almost the first line of the bash script, I call the python script like
./hello_world.py $@
and take advtange of theargparse
library in python to determine what the user wants to do amongst other tasks that are easier to do in python like for loops and etc.I try to do the meat of the logic in the python scripts before I write to an
.env
file from it and then in the bash script, I will doset -o allexport source "${DIR}"/"${ENV_FILE}" set +o allexport
and then use the variable from that env file to do the rest of the logic in bash.
why do I do anything in bash?
cause I very much prefer being able to see a terminal command being executed in real-time and see what it does and be able to
Ctrl+c
if I see the command go awry.in python, you can run a command with
subprocess
or other similar system libraries but you can't get the output in real-time or terminate a command preemptively and I really hate that. you have to wait for the command to end to see what happened.But I feel like there is something obvious I am missing (like maybe bash has an argparse library I don't know about and there is some way to inject the concept of types into it) or if there is another language entirely that fits my needs?
6 votes -
Linux very close to enabling real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support
15 votes