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  • poinck@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlYour favorite system fonts?
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    1 month ago

    Same. I’ve compiled a custom variant of Iosevka for terminal and code, because I want to have some chars in a certain way, especially the 0 and the & for even better readability. I used to have Monoid for code and terminal, but it the pixel perfect size for 12pt was getting too small for me and my eyes are not getting any better. Iosevka looks better even after some hinting by the OS.

    On the rest of the desktop UI I use B612, because it is very ledgible, I recently switch over from the hyperledible Atkinson font. Before that I had Gidole on the desktop. Very pleasing, but not that readable at same font size.


  • What is the reason you’re reinstalling? Are you upgrading to another PC? If so, I would set things in my make.conf and kernel conf so that stuff can run on both machines. Recompile, move everything to the new PC and from there remove the support for the old platform and recompile, which can advance with every update of packages as you move on.

    And there is now a binary repository which helps speed things up.

    I am personally not a fan of such install scripts, because I have chosen Gentoo to avoid them in the first place.


  • poinck@lemm.eetoProgramming@programming.devneed advices
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    2 months ago

    You’re young. I switched jobs and profession twice already. For me, it was the other way around and back again. Came from programming (10 years) then Linux adminstration (2 years) and decided to do Geography. Studied it and the programming skills helped me there, too.

    There is always something you can take with you to the next job or profession.

    I wasn’t lucky to get a job where I can use my Geography studies so I am now almost 2 years in web programming. I did not have much experience in the field, but I found a place where my Linux adminstration knowledge is useful and I improved web backend programming skills (PHP) on the job.

    Soft skills count, too. Reliablity, ability to work in a team. Recruiters look for those things.

    And btw. I got my Linux knowledge initially only from personal unpaid studies and projects in my free time.






  • Our dev stack could totally run on Linux, but management wants standardization for security reasons. We have a mixed environment of Win10 and Win11 and our scripts to setup and update the dev environment produce sometimes unpredictable results even on the same version of Windows. <_<

    We’re not even using WSL2 to speed things up because we don’t get enough time to adapt our scripts to configure docker to use WSL2.

    My next move will be asking to get Fridays off, because they denied my whish to use Linux. If they deny my part-time request, I will look elsewhere in 2025.



  • Same here, but in a small company a non-functional windows machine can be a pain although you get paid for overtime.

    And, even in Europe companies exist that do unpaid overtime. Worked at one for almost 3 years, all Linux, but I had to prepare for work on weekends. It was not worth it and it did not have anything to do with missing Linux skills. It was just a very demanding job with too much travel time. I hate unpaid overtime.

    So, it is easier to blame Win11 that s*** itself again when work could not be done in time.