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I use AI to make gtk shell widgets for my Linux rice. It’s definitely not as good as a experienced ricer but it can give good boilerplates. At the end I have to trouble shoot multiple logic errors but it’s better than writing all that spaghetti at to myself.

Other than that the only use case I find for AI in coding is to crosscheck my code or make it generate tests for me. Even that is very rare.

My justification: I use AI because I don’t want to write 1000-5000(combined) lines of code for a simple dock widget that can do couple of custom actions I use. Also the guarantee that the shell(ignis, ags) I use today can become the old thing very quickly, so I don’t like spending much time.

It’s a Web app installer. You can add pwa’s with the help of this app.

This is perfect. It’s a shame it doesn’t have an explanatory name or a description. Let me describe, have you ever wanted a pwa like app on your phone like minecraft wiki and when you try to add it to homescreen, it acts as a normal tab in the browser. No sandboxing, no fullscreen, tabs get riled up while you search for your minecraft crafting recipes. This happens because Minecraft wiki website doesn’t have a manifest which is required to tell the browser to treat is a web app. This app solves that problem.

I’ll wait till it gets on f droid. Until then Osmand does the job.

Really wish, Drew Gooden or Danny Gonzalez try Linux. They have been very openly critical of bog tech and AI for a while. But unlike pewds I’m sure they would call out a lot of cons cause they seem more relatable to normal people than pwd who calls everyone a normie.

I remember his Photoshop tutorials from 15 years ago. He was always geeky and smart. His content was never educational but he still used to post tutorials and stuff randomly.

Exactly. It was same for me. I started with Ubuntu and switched to arch after the whole snaps thing. Arch with i3, didn’t understand a lot of things. Just copied other’s setup and learned through mistakes. Switched to hyprland cause Wayland is the future and wow the way he riced must be so relatable to so many here.

I used to have a waybar but noticed too many technical limitations in it. Switched to ewww, way too complex and bad documentation. Switched to ags, was good till version 2 came out which is also complicated. Now I’m on ignos shell, which is still new but gtk4 based. I love it. Rofi has remained the constant but I might try replacing it with ignis too.

Tbh i haven’t tinkered a lot recently, everything just works but of something fails after an update, i have so many options to fall back to xD. There’s also hyprpanel and other similar projects that you can copy in case of a problem.

I switched to Linux because there were almost no good open source apps on Windows. The comparison is not fair considering how drastically the parameters are changing.

Also a lot of solo devs do try to maintain some community repos.

I’m not trying to disagree but I haven’t come across any projects that only wanted the Linux users to build. You can correct me.

“They” most of the times is solo devs and you can’t blame them for that. GIMP does have flatpak, appimages, etc.

It has a smoother UI but idk if it’s a nornal ebook reader. It scrolls horizontally, no page turning, no txt to speech, not much font settings, no sync and so many more basic features. I haven’t checked it recently so idk how many of these were added but the main thing is it looks and feels like tachiyomi fork for manga, idk how good it can be for book reading.

I would recommend Librera FD for android. BookStory is still very early in development.