Notices by parasurv (parasurv@mk.nixnet.social)

How can you not fall in love with this system? After Xfce went for GTK3, I changed my floating window manager alternative to NsCDE! It's well maintained, super retro, and absolutely not bad to look at! No flat theme bullshit, where everything flows together so much that you can't tell where things start and end after using the computer for hours.

NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

Videoseries: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/wiki/NsCDE---Video-presentations-and-tutorials

#linux #NsCDE #desktopenvironment #retro

@maxxcan@mastodon.social @abbienormal@floss.social Emacs is easy if you like using shortcuts, which is good anyway cause you don't have to deal with icons and menus, and all that stupid stuff that holds you back and makes you incredible slow.

Repetition makes you faster working with shortcuts. Once you make your setup work, it's way easier than to deal with GUI stuff, imo.

@abbienormal@floss.social @maxxcan@mastodon.social I don't condemn it in general, but I don't think it's that essential for Emacs. When you learn stuff, it will be probably just a distraction for most people (like when you are learning a language and suddenly realize, you don't need subtitles for movies anymore). Of course learning takes time, and it all depends on the individual.

Many people recommend Emacs GUI for the first time, and I am in that camp too (mostly because Emacs in terminal is just not that great).