We have a lot in common! Do you have any interest in split ergo keyboards/staggered column keyboards? I’m currently building a 42 key Cantor with Choc pinks and I’m very excited about it but nobody around me is interested lol
What’s your Linux distro & DE/WM of choice? I’ve recently migrated away from WMs and picked up KDE again and it’s been a pretty great experience.
I have 2 Cantor Remixes(36 key variant fork) actually. My daily driver is a Ferris Sweep, so column stagger with the same aggressive pinky stagger and 34 keys. I'm using Choc Sunsets in it because they are amazing I hand-dyed my own keycaps too.I use Vial for my firmware and my own custom keymap inspired by Miryoku, KKGA, and this write-up. You can see what it mostly looks like here.
I also have a A.Dux that I've been wanting to build but just haven't gotten to it. If I ever get into a legit IT job, I wanna get a unibody split but I don't wanna deal with diodes so I my spend the money to have it build for me, even though I kind of like soldering. I'm looking at a FauxFox from Fingerpunch since it seems close to what I'm after. I want lowpro switches, angled halves and a touchpad. Extra bells and whistles are fine but I'm not really after anything to gimmicky. The idea is to still get my split but without having to worry about trying to use an actual split while on the go.
I started on Ubuntu with Gnome, then Unity. After a while I did my distro hopping and used Arch for maybe a year on my laptop before finally settling on Mint. I'm ok with troubleshooting and doing a lot of the extra work that comes with actually owing your machine but at the end of the day, Mint "just worked" and it allowed me to focus on other things instead of troubleshooting video or wifi drivers and navigating the AUR docs all the time. I still like Arch and also am considering checking out Debian proper at some point but for now Mint does what I need, it's a fairly OotB experience and I'm used to apt(at least as an enduser, some of the fancier package management stuff is still mystical to me unless it's part of a written guide or whatnot.)
I use Cinnamon. I moved to it after Gnome a few years ago and haven't had many issues. I still do like Gnome though. If I am using an older or lower spec system then it's usually LXDE or XFCE. I've messed around a bit with tiling managers and they are cool in that "hacker sense" but the workflow aspect just never clicked with me and I hate feeling like I needed a cheat sheet the entire time just to navigate. I get not using a mouse if you don't need to but my brain just never could get used to tiling managers.
It seems like every time I try to use KDE it breaks my system. I've messed with Kubuntu in a vm before and like it and can see the appeal but I just have had nothing but bad luck lol.
We have a lot in common! Do you have any interest in split ergo keyboards/staggered column keyboards? I’m currently building a 42 key Cantor with Choc pinks and I’m very excited about it but nobody around me is interested lol
What’s your Linux distro & DE/WM of choice? I’ve recently migrated away from WMs and picked up KDE again and it’s been a pretty great experience.
I have 2 Cantor Remixes(36 key variant fork) actually. My daily driver is a Ferris Sweep, so column stagger with the same aggressive pinky stagger and 34 keys. I'm using Choc Sunsets in it because they are amazing I hand-dyed my own keycaps too.I use Vial for my firmware and my own custom keymap inspired by Miryoku, KKGA, and this write-up. You can see what it mostly looks like here.
I also have a A.Dux that I've been wanting to build but just haven't gotten to it. If I ever get into a legit IT job, I wanna get a unibody split but I don't wanna deal with diodes so I my spend the money to have it build for me, even though I kind of like soldering. I'm looking at a FauxFox from Fingerpunch since it seems close to what I'm after. I want lowpro switches, angled halves and a touchpad. Extra bells and whistles are fine but I'm not really after anything to gimmicky. The idea is to still get my split but without having to worry about trying to use an actual split while on the go.
I started on Ubuntu with Gnome, then Unity. After a while I did my distro hopping and used Arch for maybe a year on my laptop before finally settling on Mint. I'm ok with troubleshooting and doing a lot of the extra work that comes with actually owing your machine but at the end of the day, Mint "just worked" and it allowed me to focus on other things instead of troubleshooting video or wifi drivers and navigating the AUR docs all the time. I still like Arch and also am considering checking out Debian proper at some point but for now Mint does what I need, it's a fairly OotB experience and I'm used to apt(at least as an enduser, some of the fancier package management stuff is still mystical to me unless it's part of a written guide or whatnot.)
I use Cinnamon. I moved to it after Gnome a few years ago and haven't had many issues. I still do like Gnome though. If I am using an older or lower spec system then it's usually LXDE or XFCE. I've messed around a bit with tiling managers and they are cool in that "hacker sense" but the workflow aspect just never clicked with me and I hate feeling like I needed a cheat sheet the entire time just to navigate. I get not using a mouse if you don't need to but my brain just never could get used to tiling managers.
It seems like every time I try to use KDE it breaks my system. I've messed with Kubuntu in a vm before and like it and can see the appeal but I just have had nothing but bad luck lol.