Working on Linux

[moonglum]

It's happening again, this time on metal :metal:

I now have a Desktop computer, because I work from home. I think that's more sustainable, because I can upgrade this computer in a few years - compared to those horrible notebooks that are basically unfixable. I still have my MacBook Pro for mobile use.

• [x] Install a fresh, minimal Ubuntu 22.04 (which is why I needed to install a few more packages than before)
• [x] Provision it with a simple, idempotent shell script (instead of Ansible)
• [x] There is something messed up with the signing in Thunderbird, I need to investigate
• [x] Install Go
• [x] Install Ruby
  • [x] Not installing the default gems right now: amazing_print, brakeman, pry, rails, rubocop, rspec
• [x] Install Node
• [x] Install pgcli Install TablePlus
• [x] Find a replacement for my very occasional use of Pixelmator & Garage Band
• [x] tmux: The current charge doesn't make sense on my Desktop computer, even the clock doesn't. But for on-the-go use it does :sweat_smile: Need to find a solution.
• [x] Make it still runnable as a vagrant box for on the go use
• [x] Fix Screensharing in Slack and Teams

I'm impressed with how well this all works. It's now clear to me that there are only a few GUI apps I actually use, and most of them are wrapped web apps:

• Browsers (they are available everywhere anyway)
• Terminal Emulator (I use iTerm on my mac, now I'm using kitty)
• Email & Calendar (I use Mail/Calendar on my mac, now using Thunderbird which works well)
  • Already set up with my personal mail, address book & calendar)
• Playing videos with mpv, viewing PDFs with evince and images with eog. Editing images with Drawing and sound with audacity
• 1Password (officially available, works)
• Spotify (officially available, works)
• Slack (officially available, works)
• Teams (officially available as a preview, works exactly as bad as on Mac OS, so that's okay... I guess)
• Zoom (this thing is making some problems... does not seem to be an official package)
• PowerPoint: Not available. I'll probably go with a Windows VM for that one...
• Things where I used an app, but now just use the web page: GrammarlyLanguageTool, Notion, Figma

This replaces #86. It goes a more incremental way, not starting with tiling window managers etc. - but start from something I know pretty well (Ubuntu) with a very standard window manager. The more involved stuff can follow later.

[bascht]

@moonglum First time I actually found the time and looked through it. Really love what you did to this place (kudos for even configuring Neofetch) <3

As for the tmux thing: If you rendered the current charge & time to the status line only, then you can use run-shell to configure individual status lines for the laptop & desktop computer.

I've only used it to distinguish between host and vm, but you should be able to call tmux set-window-option -g window-status-current-format "…" from there as well.

[moonglum]

@bascht Went a different route :smiley_cat: Instead, my battery script now checks if there is a battery inside the computer. If there is none, it will not show anything. See 3314075 :blush:

[moonglum]

I'm using this in production use for quite a while now, so I don't really think I should keep it in a branch :smile: