What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?

NixOS

Estroge- oh, I'm in the Linux community whoops

docker I guess, I still don't know how it works, create them, etc

Bcachefs, and bcachefs on root. Need something with filesystem level encryption instead of LUKS, and *ubuntu's and derivatives have all abandoned ZFS on root installs now.

Neovim. I tried to use it a year ago, but I felt like I was fighting it every time I just wanted to make progress on my project. VSCode doesn't get in my way. I'm going to give it another shot in a few years.

I want to use Neovim but I haven't gotten around to really learning it yet.

Wayland, but I'm patiently waiting for xfce to support it

Common Lisp. It would take a long while before I'm comfortable working on a project using that language. There's also Lem editor but setting it up is a pain on NixOS.

I kind of want to try wayland just to be modern, but I'm pretty happy with xmonad and don't want to learn another window manager.

Btrfs. I've been using ext4 for so long, I'm afraid that switching up will just annoy me.

Zsh: same reason.

There are several things I was doing in X-Org that I really don't have the capacity to figure out in Wayland. One of them was customizing touch pad shortcuts, I used to like having 3 figure swipe commands that worked like keyboard shortcuts. The other was my KVM programs like Barrier seems unable to work in Wayland.

I hope for simple solutions to these problems in the future.

Niri looks really cool. I've used tiling WM before but scrolling is a unique take, perhaps more productive for some folks?

Nushell is a good one. I do data science for a living and it'd be nice to have the shell handle some small data transformations instead of writing a script in python. But all the syntax and behavior is very different than bash, so I've been afraid to start because of the learning curve.

Lapce, an IDE written in Rust. It's nice and light compared to most IDE's, so I use it a bit on my aging laptop from 2015. However, it doesn't have the extension ecosystem or polish of my favored IDE, VS Code.

Zed - I've been kind of using it for one-off edits, but it's just not mature yet for most languages.

any distro other than ubuntu but i'm lazy after ive been doing that shit all day at work

Elixir, or Gleam/pure Erlang/some other Erlang VM language. I think Erlang is extremely cool and I've enjoyed the little time I spent with Elixir. I also have absolutely no use case to make proper use of it.

Anything beyond setting up a network-wide dns blocker on docker, so... crowdsec, fail2ban, some proxy-related stuff, zero trust tunnelers and so on.

Why? Because its overkill to my current setup and I don't see myself using em for real other than for learning purposes, and thats it.

And before someone asks "Do you protect your server at all?". Other than making some "hacky" stuff with my internet so all ports appear as closed whilst they actually aren't? Eh, not really. Still, my server is about to reach a year of running nonstop 24/7 and it has never been hacked a single time since then, so naaaw.

executive function

Any modern DE in my fucking Raspberry Pi 5. I tried going Debian testing, broken packages. I tried installing other OSes, fedora didn't even boot, Ubuntu broke in installation and now won't let me log in.

Gnome in Debian stable feels too old and I can't get the screen keyboard working and disable the dann screen reader. I just want a box to put on my tv.

Edit: was idiot, thought raspberry pi de was gnome.also the rpi5 needs a custom kernel as some stuff isn't yet in the main one, so use raspbian.

I think a lot of the recent AI tools could be fun as toys to play around with, but I'm just very uncomfortable using tech that exploits everyone who doesn't own a huge megacorp.

Also, emacs as a replacement for my graphical editor. It feels like there isn't a "neovim" style modern version, and there's a steep learning curve to configuring it.

Also, Wayland. Come on, Cinnamon. ;_;

I want to use COSMIC but its design sucks, I prefer KDE (and on the Rust side: slint).

I want to use GNOME as what it does works great, but it lacks a whole list of features I use.

I want to use Haruna or many other KDE apps, but GNOME/GTK apps are often better and I dont care.

I want to use Gapless as it is the only music player on Linux that seems to not suck? But it lacks many features.

Ceph. I have some Raspberry Pi's that I'm going to set up a cluster with. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I half expect the performance to be relatively terrible, but maybe it won't and I can try to build something on top of the cluster in a sort of hyper converged setup.

It's completely overkill for a small home lab but that's what makes it fun.

Immutable distro. I love the concept but don't want to move away from Alpine Linux...

Python. Been wanting to learn it for years but all mental capacity I have toward such stuff is drained by work. The whole situation is ironic.

Immich

Wanting to spin-up but constantly delaying...

fish. I think it has most things i want out of the box, so it should be simpler and snappier than my zsh setup. it's just that zsh hasnt bothered me enough to try it yet.

also nushell, im interested in the idea of manipulating structured data instead of unstructured text

i3w - I want to try it, but thinking, that if I'll use other programs requiring mouse it will all be for nothing

LLM speech-to-text.

It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.

Still very cool!

I've been using Niri with Xwayland-satellite lately, and it works as a charm. it works out of the box, and you simply run it in background, and launch your X programs with DISPLAY=:0

I love arch, but i'm planning on moving to atomic fedora eventually, but I use a bunch of niche things because i'm an early adopter, plus installing hyprland isn't easy right now

i'll switch to fedora atomic when pwvucontrol, tofi, hyprland, hyprland-autoname-workspaces, citrix workspace (work necessary), notiflut-land, bato, wljoywake, wayland-pipewire-idle-inhibit, ananicy-cpp, easyeffects, wl-mirror, gtk3-classic, keyd, iwgtk, qtalarm, kvantum and subliminal are all available, haven't checked which are yet

couple of those (pwvucontrol and notiflut-land) aren't even in the AUR yet so it'll be a while.

A billion dollars?

SimulaVR or any Linux VR desktop experience.

I want to lean back and be immersed on the desktop so bad, but only if it is worth the cost (e.g. not trading ever detail of house in ewal time to Facebook ...).

To be honest: my PC 🫢I just do not have enough free energy time

There are a lot of "I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it" social things like Matrix 😑

There a few things I've wanted to try for a while, but haven't gotten around to it.

AstroJS (I've tried it, but only half-arsed)... It's cool, but the lack of native react support scares me...

Cosmic DE... Still waiting for the alpha.

Python. It's a good language, I've spent some time learning it, I'm just failing to find a use case for it atm.

Textual (Python framework). It's really cool, but OOP scares me.

UKI. I'm still using grub because I know how to use it. I will definitely make the switch one day when I have an afternoon free or something.

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the question is perhaps a bit of a weird answer--but I really want to learn SELinux. It's completely overkill for my Linux desktop and the few services I run on my network. The same with OpenLDAP, I want to play around with it even though I have no real need for it with my setup, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

On that note, I also feel like I want to learn Ansible, or some other configuration management tool. The thing is, I haven't even played around with it (or any others) enough to really even get what the intended use case is. I'm looking for ways to manage policies and configurations across multiple machines in a common way, but it feels like the more common use case is deploying webapps. So while it's on my list of things I want to learn I don't even have sufficient background at the moment.

Then, finally, the other thing that came to mind was timeshift--or really BTRFS snapshots in general. It would be nice to have that additional feeling of safety while playing around with my systems.

My TV. *arr stilll not set up and the gaming rig is still in its planning phase.

DNS ad blocker. My network setup is more complex than I can understand and if I set up AdGuard/PiHole I have issues.

FOSS remote camera control and fine art printing software is top of my agenda currently. Got a few avenues of enquiry but any recommendations would be welcomed, particularly on the printing side. I'd also like to become expert at using my current programs, especially GIMP and Ardour, for my own use but also so I can teach others.

the lack of XWayland support scares me

I've been using niri lately and couldn't believe so many apps wouldn't launch. I didn't know that was the issue. I had been manually editing so many desktop entries to make them work...

I want to learn stenography, but haven't really got to buying a keyboard designed for it. I also want to host an EteSync server, but the HTTPS thing has been a bit of a headache for me and I've mostly just left it sitting there.

I would like to give a proper try to a tiling window manager. I would like to try QTile, but I haven't gone through the documentation to understand how to customize it properly. Currently, I use GNOME (and actually, I like it a lot). Also, I love TMUX, and the idea of having the same flexibility and keyboard-centric experience on a broader level makes me think that I will love a tiling window manager when I try it. I'm interested in QTile because I know it's configured in Python (which is a programming language I already know), and apparently, it can be used on either X or Wayland. Have you ever tried using it on Wayland? Does it work properly? Besides QTile, what else would you recommend?

Also I stopped Using Emacs.... because it's very slow

I've been using a mix of Emacs and Neovim and plan to switch completely to Neovim when I have replicated enough of my Emacs config to be comfortable in Neovim. And speed is the main reason why.

Also, qutebrowser. I want to use it but it lacks workspaces support and as a self proclaimed tab hoarder I need my workspaces. I'm also still looking into a pasword manager for it (though I can always just use Bitwarden as an app)

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Virtual reality, but an old friend of mine has kindly offered to buy me an Oculus Quest 2 so I'm very much looking forward to what VR can offer.

Nginx. I'm going to learn soon but I'm still new and it seems easy to screw up exposing things to the Internet.

Virtual Machines, but I'm too dumb to figure it out.

Kakoune, NixOS, dwl.

Same, niri. Want to move away from hyprland for so long. Also Emacs but I don't want to spend months configuring.

Also a foss android distro, but I can't find one for this phone.

there are also lots of other things like common lisp, Redox OS, cosmic desktop, trying to make my own compositor, rope science, activity pub, webtransport, bevy, ecs, and much more.

Edit: Hey, I finally installed niri and everything works!!!!!

Having my TrueNAS scale homeserver host some pihole, VPN and *arr. I’ve fallen behind the times.

I want to use global keyboard shortcuts with Wayland that can be defined in the application, not the compositor. This makes using Wayland much more difficult for me.

And I also want to use proper Flatpak file permissions, but for Flatpaks to stop generating fake stupid random file paths so that this common issue stops being an issue:

Come in and set the file path to my games directory in my emulator. It works fine. Come back a few days later and it loses all memory of games, because it is receiving a file path from a portal that no longer exists.

What are you using instead of emacs? I'm very happy with my doom emacs setup and it doesn't feel slow at all imo

Wayland on a 3070

I kinda wanna try Gentoo just for the experience, but as someone who already uses Arch, I'm worried it will take up more of my time than my current setup already does.

oooo. niri is a good one. I've had it installed on my fedora system for... Hell I don't even know how long but I just haven't been using it. I've really been wanting to use NixOS for a while but haven't had the motivation/determination to sit down and learn it.

Bazzite. I had it working well for a while but a bad update broke it to the point where I can’t login with Gnome anymore and I’ve stopped trying to make it work. I should be able to revert to the last good snapshot with grub, but I’m a little tired of tinkering, workarounds, and incomplete docs. I like the premise, but I think I need a fresh start with a new distro.

Mainly Firefox. It has quite a good extensions engine, but the overall UX just still isn't there compared to other browsers. I really don't care about all the ethical or moral reasons people try to come up with for using it, I just want a browser that has a lot of good functionality in comparison with Edge or Vivaldi.

And while I am aware of some of the forks like Floorp and Librewolf, I find the latter to be too hardened, and the former to be behind compared to upstream.