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  • Maybe other tools support this too but one thing I like about xdiskusage is that you can pipe regular du output into it. That means that I can run du on some remote host that doesn’t have anything fancy installed, scp it back to my desktop and analyze it there. I can also pre-process the du output before feeding it into xdiskusage.

    I also often work with textual du output directly, just sorting it by size is very often all I need to see.


  • I am on Gentoo. It’s not really a goal for me to stick with it, I am pretty pragmatic about these choices. What I value about Gentoo is the flexibility and the lack of magic. The ability to fully own and understand my system. I know what’s installed, what’s running and why. It’s up to me if I want to use systemd or something else, do I want pulseaudio, pipewire or just plain ALSA, X11 or Wayland, what type of desktop environment to use (if any). I can easily apply local patches if needed, I can build a package from git or stick to some old version if I prefer. I know how I want things to work and Gentoo lets me get there. If I found a better way to do it I’d switch. Maybe something like NixOS someday but I am not ready for those trade-offs yet.

    The reason I’ve been maintaining the same image for so long is that I didn’t have a reason to rebuild it. I’ve always been able to make the changes I needed. I re-did the image when going from 32 to 64 bit because it was less work.






  • donio@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlBest clipboard manager for X ? (edited)
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    1 year ago

    I use parcellite. Sensible UI, has all the functionality I need and it’s not tied to any desktop environment.
    The functionality I care about:

    • history, including customizable persistent entries
    • customizable key bindings
    • handles both primary and selection and can sync them
    • can trim whitespace
    • can launch customizable actions on the active entry