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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • While I wouldn’t switch to it (I’m not the target audience, I have very specific needs and workflow, currently only truly accomplished on NixOS), this is one of the worthwhile projects, it seems. A lot of distros are just Debian, Ubuntu or something else with a DE slapped on top, some customisations and Calamares, but this has something more to offer, and I respect that. OpenRC, focus on AppImage, and to a lesser extent immutability, are very rare, so it’s good to have a system that offers these. I think this has some compelling selling points, for example it’s the only non-systemd immutable distro I know of, and it’s also the only distro I know of that’s pushing AppImages. We need such uniqueness, and it should be mentioned more often, and should be celebrated.










  • A few things you need to know:

    1. In my experience, my super-customised Zsh is a bit slower

    2. It is far more customisable

    3. When loading plugins, do NOT use oh-my-zsh or other plugin managers. In most cases, the plugins are just zsh files, so just source the files directly into your .zshrc to have better performance. For me, zsh with oh my zsh is unbearably slow. Without it, zsh is so much faster.

    4. Add a zsh history file to save your history. This is especially useful if you want to use something like autosuggestions and autocompletion.

    5. Check out my zsh config at https://gitlab.com/theshatterstone/dotfiles for examples of how to do 3 and 4. If you need any help, let me know.