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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I Just Removed Ubuntu for Archcraft and my Linux PC Looks Awesome! (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Switching away from Ubuntu, again, to try Archcraft. Here's what I think!

Archcraft is for Linux users who want a pre-configured window manager with a unique look out of the box. You get a pretty theme setup, but you can choose from a couple of pre-installed options (10 free themes) as well.

You can pick other window managers like Sway, Wayland desktop session, and unlock access to extra themes on Ko-fi by supporting the developer. So, some can call it a freemium model, and I do not mind that, considering you are paying the dev to give you a refined pre-configured experience, saving all the time to set it up yourself.

But, of course, nothing is ever perfect. Everything has flaws. It is you who pick what flaws you can live with, and what you can't.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Quick tip for the author and those reading, instead of doing as in the article noted e.g. sudo nano or the like, you can use sudoedit (or sudo -e). The advantage of this is that it will use whatever you have configured as an editor (through $SUDO_EDITOR, $VISUAL or $EDITOR), and will use your configuration files while editing instead of root's, meaning if you have a sick custom neovim or emacs setup you don't have to keep those settings files in sync with the root account. ;)

[–] vvv 11 points 4 months ago

More than that, your editor doesn't run with root permissions, which reduces the risk of accidentally overwriting something you didn't mean to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Almost 6 years using Linux exclusively, and I had no idea this existed. You just messed me up bad. I'm going to have so much fun with this.

Thank you so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Holy moly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I use it at work with many servers like EDITOR=vim sudo -e /etc/samba/smb.conf

However useful when you need some color highlighting or just numers then add it to .vimrc and EDITOR=vim in Bash config.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh wow, this is amazing info. Thanks!