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Kororon - Eve

I’ll happily say I must have overlooked something, but I did try using update-alternatives. I don’t remember all the nuts and bolts from the start, but it involves python3 and distribution upgrades. I spent a good number of nights over the years trying to unmess it up, and am happy to never think about it ever again.

Installed python3 before it was made the native python on the dist. Half broke everything, including apt & python. So I uninstalled it, and then everything was broken. Finally got python3 reinstalled, and lived with it kindof working & awful distribution updates.

I have finally freed myself of that prison last month, by nuking everything and starting fresh.

Its a meme at this point, but I tried to install arch. Ran into display issues during install and couldn’t progress. Gave up and did Ubuntu instead.

I know there’s supposed to be some helper stuff out there now to make it go smoothly, but don’t think I am motivated enough to retry ever.

So much yes. Highly recommend. I could listen to Dan Carlin go on about a topic endlessly.

In fairness, I frequently forgot my steamdeck root password, because the need to use it was so few and far between. If you’re always in game mode, then there’s almost 0 reason that I’d need my password.

Because their intent is to force people to use their native applications. They’re intentionally making it difficult/impossible for third party apps to exist. They’re wagering that their clout surpasses the bad-will they’ll get for the crummy move.

Then they can bombard everyone with “he gets you” ads or whatever the most recent ad garbage is, and get their full revenue.

I too would be interested to know what plugins you use.

I love i3 and have used it for years and find myself fruitlessly using the most common keybinds in windows at work.

But my gripes over i3 are:

• If I don’t know the name of the command, say a specific settings window, etc - then I’m hosed if I need it.
• It doesn’t come with a lock screen by default, you need a plugin for it