@cienmilojos @khm Heck, I do my accounting using plain text files and some simple shell scripts.

because it took less time to write and maintain those than it would have to figure out how to use the GUIs. That's not an exaggeration; I spent literal hours trying to figure a few of the Linux options out at one point and decided it was a waste of time.

maybe that means I'm too stupid to use those tools, but I honestly doubt that.

@pixx @khm no, you have a point, modern operating systems do contain a lot of unnecessary glitter. Simple is always better. I did a little reading and the file system is neat, everything is truly a file. Seems like there is heavy reliance on the mouse for navigation and window management.

@khm @cienmilojos Yeah, but tbh, needing two separate input devices for everything is still tedious.

I'd prefer keyboard-only anyways - but that preference is not strong enough for me to have done any patches for it yet :P

I solved that problem decades ago by using a trackpoint.

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@khm @cienmilojos Yeah, I'll note that it's actually _more_ of an issue on PC for me.

The Reform and thinkpad, not an issue.

pinebook pro is the worst of all, lol

@pixx @khm @cienmilojos this thread makes me want to set up 9front on an imx8mq reform as a hobby

@mntmn @pixx @khm @cienmilojos i recently did that on an old and t/rusty R60, even managed to connect it to the web through the ethernet and mount its FS to my other unix pc with 9mount to transfer screenshots of rio

but using it daily is still beyond me, mothra can't browse fedi and there's exactly one gemini client that i still couldn't build

mothra works with snac2, but julienxx wrote an api client you can try the next time you feel like messing with 9front!

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