New daily driver on workstation

Bluefin
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Hey all, just want to share some initial experience with Bluefin/Aurora.

Specs: B650 MB, AMD 7800X3D, NVidia 4070 (should have bought AMD), 2TB SSD

Bluefin installation was super smooth. Probably the simplest from past few I tried (Fedora is similar, openSuse little bit more complicated, Aeon didn’t work, Arch is arch).

Started with bluefin-nvidia:stable

My main ‘tool’ is browser (Brave) and emacs. I used arch distrobox to install both (tried emacs from brew but it lacks certain stuff in addition to no GUI).

It was clunky. Took a while to setup apps do to the right thing (use existing config). Brave (all chromium browsers really) for some reason keep crashing in ozone wayland mode. In X11 mode, it is blurry to due fractional scaling.

Tried switching to gts (also to see how that works). Super smooth, experience more or less the same.

Then I tried Aurora. And feel like at home with KDE :slight_smile: Also Chromium browsers are working properly with non-blurry fonts. Will keep at it to see what other rough edges I find.

But super impressive, esp. switching base system. Probably at some near future point I might role my own container with few extras in.

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Come on dude, use vim already. :slight_smile:

Two of the best citations:

  • emacs is all encapsulated solution except text editor
  • I use vim, because I have never figure it out how to quit it.
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VIM

Vastly
Inferior
Markdown editor…

:disguised_face: :disguised_face:

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haha, well, 2 points:

  • org-mode (to be more precise, org-roam) => nothing comes remotely close to it
  • evil mode => all of vim better editing workflow but with emacs sugar on top :slight_smile:

I do use vi/vim/nvim for some quick & dirty stuff, but I have so many things setup in my emacs that it just works. Even now with GPT stuff, people just invent shit and make it competitive to ‘fancy new stuff’

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