I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf

Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)

Did not know that is something people do on arch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQ5FZSGLK8

In Neovim after re-writing my config I actually opted out of even using a LSP. If you have a picker with grep + fuzzy finder honestly the experience is not that bad and keeps things lean. You will need to change your workflow a bit but very doable. So I can stand behind the “meme”.

Is it built into the editor itself? In neovim you need to install a separate plugin “nvim-treesitter-textobjects” to get that.

why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

Well… the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said “if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out”. If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven’t highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.

why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for “green” when you need a “string”). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can’t use the latter.

But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.

True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don’t notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.

Yep, he does not like syntax highlighting at all. I think some is still useful.

Thanks! I have never heard of literate programming before.

Like someone said in some thread that I read awhile back : – “if I wanted rainbows, I’d code in fucking skittles” 😂

I had no clue it was this bad

Great file-manager, would recommend! Has a lot of plugins, integrates well with fzf to find files and zoxide for directories.

I use it as my default file manager and also in nvim.

I have similar experiences, have been using it for a year now, works … fine.

Nothing broke, seems stable.

I also had some problems with my nvidia gpu around a year ago when I switched over to linux.

I’m not sure whether this was wayland specific, but when the GPU’s clock speed would jump up after some time of inactivity it would cause this sort of stutter / lag for that 1 second of transition. Was really annoying, I had to change the minimum clock speed, it did help. I eventually switched to a AMD gpu and everything worked perfectly without me needing to do anything.

And in general I had a couple of more problems with some electron apps back then (Obsidian), that did not work well when forced to run wayland. Though this was probably not nvidia specific. Eventually I remember finding some sort of fix for it by setting some obscure environment variable that I found on hyprlands discord that was recently made available.

Its not that bad to start with arch it’s not as hard as it used to be. I started with endeavourOS approximately a year ago and most things just work out of the box and you don’t need to do much and honestly i find it easier than having to navigate layers of abstractions.

Most of my time went into configuring stuff like hyprland, nvim and other stuff and arch just worked.

I came with 0 linux knowledge, the only terminal commands i knew were cd and ls and if not for arch I don’t think I would have been hooked on linux. That being said, I get it and sometimes it is frustrating but just putting it out there that it’s doable.

Yeah I noticed the main AUR package was last updated in June 2024. Thought they abandoned it but the GitHub shows the last release was around the same time. Downloaded sioyek-git instead and it works great.

I think I’m sticking with Sioyek. It checks enough boxes for what I need from a pdf viewer. Well documented, no performance issues, and it supports epub too.

The command line tools, portals, ruler for reading, keyboard text selection, searchable highlights, easy file opening, marking. Really vim-like. Need to customize some keybinds but otherwise don’t see a reason to look elsewhere for now.

Oh Sioyek looks interesting. Also the blog is great !

I personally want something more minimal.

What are the main things Wezterm does better than Kitty, in your opinion? Back when I looked at trying a different terminal I was just not convinced there’s that much of a difference between say Kitty and the other hyped ones.

That being said, back then I didn’t need any of this session stuff and multiplexing as I used ZelliJ.

Yep, he showed around Calibre in the interview and most of it’s features. The calibre-server thingy is cool, you can host it on your home server and access your library from any device through a web interface.

It has a lot of momentum, so it will continue to dominate. But I wonder if it will decline over the long term as Linux continues to improve. Similar to how smartphones barely differentiate themselves from one another these days (compared to the past) maybe operating systems will have a similar fate. Maybe I’m a bit naive, but perhaps Linux will eventually have all the stability and ease of use of Windows, while also offering privacy, customization, and open-source benefits so there will be no real reason to use windows and the split will be more even.

Maybe… eventually…