After using Apple laptop for nearly 10 years, I have gotten used to Apple’s shortcuts where most places use Cmd instead of Ctrl

After switching to Linux, initially I fumbled.

Then I had to be alert, which I did most of the times, but when in the zone, I would still do Cmd+c to copy, and when pasted would be disappaointed that it did not work 😄

Then I came across kinto

No, I’m not talking about Atuin. ¹

I improved my search experience with just one tool - fzf

As you might know, fzf is a general purpose fuzzy finder. ²

But adding just source <(fzf --zsh) at the end of ~/.zshrc (and/or running it in your existing session) improves your Ctrl+r experience.

See the demo yourself.

It has been more than 20+ years since I used Makefiles seriously. I did use them later, but they were very simple.

Then I found and moved just task runner, which is supposed to be replacement for make

My justfiles were also simple.

and today, I needed to define a task that we dependent on another.

Turns out, it is same as Makefile

task1:
  @echo "Task1"

task2: task1
  @echo "Task2"

In the above example, task2 depends on task1, and thus when we say just task2, task1 will get executed, as it is a dependency for task1

After the basic setup was done (I made a list of tools to be installed on line before I installed Linux itself), I wanted Espanso

While Espanso is well supported on X11, for wayland, it needs to be compiled from the source

I ran into this issue but solution was found in the same issue.

While install went through, I ran into issues related to capability grant.

Following worked:

sudo zypper install libcap-progs
sudo setcap "cap_dac_override+p" $(which espanso)
espanso start --unmanaged

I also needed to add the following to config/default.yml

My Macbook Pro (early 2015) isn’t getting any OS updates for some time.

Only version it supports is Monterey (which is already couple major versions behind the latest)

brew has also started complaining as This version is not supported

So I’ve been considering installing linux on it for some time anyway.

I finally pulled the trigger and installed openSUSE Tumbleweed

I had tried the live version, and knew and it generally works.

While copying large amounts of files (lots of photos) I used to use Finder in the macOS. Good ol’ drag-n-drop

Usually it is reliable, but lately I’m facing some problems when copying files to external disk.

Finder itself would become unresponsive.

So I decided to use terminal instead.

It worked (kinda) but it took 51 minutes to finish the copy (There were a lot of files)

and as you know traditionally cp does not show progress.

See this thread titled :

Disk Not Ejected Properly – AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN…

I have started seeing this problem a LOT

TL;DR: Something breaks when macOS goes to sleep

Solution : Do not allow macOS to sleep when using external disk.

I have had to resort to using an application called Amphetamine (earlier Caffeine) and set the ‘Drive Alive’ mode to prevent sleep. All the problems went away. It has nothing to do with ‘frayed cables’ or ‘drives going bad’.

In my plan to shift to Linux, I considered dual booting.

Turns out I may not have enough disk space.

I have reached at about 12 15GB free space. At first I thought, if live session can fit into 4GB, then 12 15GB should be enough, but looks like that may not be the case. ¹

So I’m shelving the plan to dual boot.

I’ll go with full disk install. That way linux gets entire 128GB SSD 👍

For a long time, I’m considering switching to Linux full time since my existing machine does not get OS updates from apple. ¹

In preparation for this “move”, I check whether all the software is available on Linux.

Vivaldi browser in on that list (available on Linux ✅).

What about my already opened tabs ? Every few days I close the temporary/ unwanted tabs. ² but I do want others on Linux. Hence the search whether it is possible. ³

I started learning clojure yesterday.

Initial useful (for me) command in clojure REPL : dir ¹

As per the example given in the documentation, (dir clojure.repl) produced list of commands (?) - one of which is demunge

I had no idea about it, and so I tried dir(demunge) and it returned nil 😆

I could not find it in the documentation, so I asked ChatGPT about it, and it explained the following: ²

Since clojure runs on top of JVM, compiler converts the code into java bytecode.