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I've spent the last year learning Linux and coding, I had used windows for years and only used Ubuntu 12 for very short stints, and as for coding i was clueless, now ive a basic understanding but im getting there. Anyway thank you to all the maintainers, devs and community

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out btop. It's another system monitor like htop but it has a bit more info and I've been pretty impressed with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have btop on my desktop, very pretty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wvkbd, its serviceable in a pinch but will probably switch to gnomes vkb

[–] wispydust517 2 points 1 year ago

Nice - having tried wvkbd I would agree. How did you plan to use gnome's vkb without gnome?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clean rice. Nice.

[–] capy_bara 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I truly respect those who run linux on surface devices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you but the guys over at linux-surface did the heavy lifting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very good rice!! Glad you are part of the linux community now. I went through the same thing like three years ago and it changed my life!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. What keyboard r u using

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wvkbd, its serviceable

[–] Molecular0079 1 points 1 year ago

Surface Pro 7 owner here as well. It's performance with Windows 10 and 11 was absolute garbage, but after I put Arch on it (along with the linux-surface packages) it absolutely flies. It's my night time binge watching tablet now haha.

Does wvkbd work with KDE? I've been trying to look for an alternative to Maalit that has system and arrow keys.