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laptop: acer aspire 3 with 32 gigs of ram.
laptop os for college: windows. debian on wsl.
i needed a distro that simply just works on my personal laptop, because i use it for my college and also for my internship. i now use pop-os.
secondary computer: custom built with an amd ryzen. os: arch linux to tinker as of now.
other misc
i love fish shell and have been using it for a while. i still use bash for scripting when required, but the fact that fish is nice and usable out of the box with a huge set of already configured completions.
text-editor: neovim for most part. i still have to use vs-code for few of my projects because of the huge ecosystem of plugins.
i don't like gnome but still use gnome. i want something that can be easily themed. i was earlier excited for cosmic (the new destop environment), but it's written in rust and i don't want to deal with compiling rust programs.
i am enjoying people theme omarchy and see all the new themes pop up, but arch linux is not for every day. i want things to work seamlessly. i don’t want to spend hours setting up tiling window managers or struggling with screen sharing.
anecdote: one time my laptop wouldn’t boot because i had immich installed as a snap package. i must have been listening to music or distracted while installing, but i didn’t change the directory (though honestly, why would anyone want to store images in the snap folder?). after a while, when my image backup crossed 50 gigs, i learned the hard way that my DE wasn’t booting because the dedicated partition for snaps was full.
lesson learned. i had to do a lot that day just to boot my DE and get back to what i intended. since then, i’ve most certainly never installed the snap package manager, let alone any snap packages, on any distro i’ve used.
though the ranting might make it seem that i dislike arch linux. i actually love arch linux. it's just not for daily driving for a laptop (a device needing to be ready to use at literal any time).
today's 5th of november, 2025, current state of pop os isn't very good and i want it to be here for posterity. up until now, pop os used gnome as default DE, but now they are switching to cosmic. as earlier mentioned, cosmic is written in rust. i wasn't aware that after cosmic is released in the new pop os release which is due this december/christmas, pop os will no longer support gnome officially. this is a huge bummer for me. i loved it the way it was
wifi on linux feels so great. i finally know why:
Linux tends to be more resilient to momentary network drops. When a WiFi connection temporarily drops (e.g., during a switch between access points), Linux often maintains existing application-level connections until they time out (which might be several minutes later). If the connection is re-established within this window, the applications experience only a slowdown, not a full disconnection, making the transition feel seamless or faster.
this hit me, because i often switch between my room wifi and the wifi in the other room. both are from different ISPs and often the one in my room has issues, but my machine switches between them without dropping connections. just today, i was on a video call and this time the good wifi in the room dropped, but my laptop switched to the other wifi without dropping the call. this is something i never experienced on windows. i didn't even know about the dropping thing until my grandfather called me to tell his tv has stopped working because of wifi.