osu! is a free and open source rhythm game. Its pretty much the best pc rhyrhm game.

There's a guide here to show Japanese fonts by default and also how to configure your browser to show Japanese fonts by default.

I think pretty much any wireless headphone should work on Linux; my Airpods seem to work fine.

I'm not using lsp in Neovim so if I need lsp I'll just pull out emacs. If I'm already in the terminal I'll usually pull out Neovim to edit a file, but if I'm writing like markdown or something that uses images I like the ability to display images inline in emacs. LaTeX is always something I do in emacs because there's a built in pdf viewer in emacs and there's built in spell check also. In the terminal in emacs, sometimes I open up Neovim to do a quick edit because of muscle memory from the terminal. One thing that's really cool about Neovim is that you can embed it in other applications, so if I really have to use an ide that's not emacs, I'll just do that.

I don't use Neovim for complex tasks, because personally I find it a bit hard to discover commands compared to emacs. The menubar in emacs is really useful for finding useful commands in different major and minor modes.

Yeah there's a thing called EAF, which allows python and javascript to be embedded in emacs. It allows for more complex applications to be built in emacs, similar to VSCode. I'm not sure how difficult it is to make something with EAF, but I haven't really seen any things written in it that aren't in the EAF organization. I think the future could be EAF or maybe something like EAF to be able to leverage the power of the javascript ecosystem like how VSCode does for a lot of plugins. There have been some attempts to rewrite emacs in different languages, but emacs is too large, and you would lose the old ecosystem by doing that.

There's a larger community around Doom Emacs, and Doom Emacs looks nicer. Honestly though it doesn't matter that much which one you use since they are both pretty good.

Nvim is more optimised, while emacs is more extensible. Basically you can modify core parts of emacs while it runs. I tend to use both, depending on the situation, with a lighter nvim config. Sometimes the 3 second emacs startup time is annoying so I use vim then. I think its fine to try both.

Regarding emacs declining popularity, I think that in the long term it could be a problem, since most people don't want to learn elisp just to configure their editor. Elisp is very powerful in emacs, but its design is very different to other languages, so as emacs contributors get older, it could possibly lead to less and less new contributors.

Idk about the vim distros, but I think Doom Emacs is easier for beginners to get into.

I think performance may vary depending on your setup. My experience is definitely not universal, but I've never experienced VR that works well on Linux yet. IMO you should keep trying and see if you can get it working, but if not Valve could fix VR on Linux when they finish the rumored Deckard headset.

I think this might be changing in the U.S., because my friend group only talks on Discord. I don't even have their phone numbers.

I got PCVR working on Manjaro (my main installation is NixOS and I installed Manjaro to see if VR would work) on my Valve Index, but for some reason audio sounded like it was bass boosted a ton and games ran at 30 fps. IMO PCVR on Linux just isn't there yet. The steam vr dashboard didn't work at all either, might've been because of the new Steam VR 2.0 not prioritizing Linux use at all.

Not sure what the experience is like on quest, but I would think its not too far off from my Valve Index experience.

You can add something like this to your config: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48831392/how-to-add-nixos-unstable-channel-declaratively-in-configuration-nix

You just need to have it fetch the tarball for nixos 23.11 instead of nixos unstable.

You are probably gonna want to chroot into your laptop using a livecd for linux. This will allow you to basically access your terminal without being able to login or boot, and then you can uninstall Nimdow, or turn off auto-login.

Some guides to chrooting.

https://superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation#111215

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot

Chromebooks are honestly the best option for budget linux laptops, you can easily install linux onto many chromebooks.

Other people will know what bootloader you use, what apps you use, etc. Yeah I guess its not a huge concern, but its something.

If you don't have much experience with linux you should not use nixos. I don't think nixos is any different from debian or fedora in privacy, anonymity, or security. Many people even reduce their privacy by putting their config on github.

I'm pretty sure MKDEV, who is one person, quit cracking earlier this year.

I only use an extension for tray icons. I use it kind of like how I would use a tiling window manager with a keyboard based workflow and non tiling windows. I just hit the super key and type app names to launch stuff and drag windows around with the super key. Instead of alt-tabbing I hit the super key to see the overview and click on the window I want.

In the newest gnome versions, there's a menu that shows you what apps are in the background, so if you know what apps are already open. I'm not a huge fan of that but I wouldn't really care if my tray icons didn't work because its close enough.

Yeah, I haven't seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.

If vpns are blocked on the network you are on, tor usually has a way to work.

I got the cartoon with text wrong because I didn't know dalle-3 could do text. I got 12 from vibes of more detail? This assumption that AI does more detail gets a lot of actual humans. AI image generation is really crazy. The simpler stuff is pretty much indistinguishable from real human stuff at this point.

Some adobe products are way ahead of the competition (patenting useful stuff) and they integrate nicely with each other. I don't use them out of principle but that's why people use them.

Well you don't just use the flashcards, You have to use textbooks and practice on supplementary material. Those aren't really software that can be open source.

Also Duolingo removed its grammar lessons a while ago, so its really not that different from flashcards now. EDIT: nevermind they only removed grammar on desktop.