Linux Toolbox Bash and Neovim

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• For me you are some sort of developer, so I want to say you're System dev. 👌

• Office setup. LibreOffice which Chris dislikes or something else (OnlyOffice?)? Please not Google Office, I rather have the spies away from Linux-systems. 😉

• i'm dreaming of this linux toolbox from the beginning when winutil exists

• You need to learn Rust.

• Haven’t watched through, but ctt-Linux-toolbox

• Re: GNU/Linux haha So true. Linux would not be where it is today without GNU tools. Fact. But same for all the other parts. By that logic is should be called GNU/LINUS. 😉

• Hey, Chris! I'm (obviously) just starting to get into Linux. Past couple of weeks or so. Anyhow, if I understand correctly, the Linux Kernel holds drivers inside of itself. I'm curious if an install media (USB, etc. as long as it's writeable) can be configured to ping all hardware on a system – just as it would to install drivers in the first place – and create an inventory list by creating a folder on the install media specific to that machine and putting that inventory list in there. Then search the Kernel for appropriate drivers and moving those drivers into the folder. Then, popup a menu like your Windows tool that shows popular software so your choices can also be added to the inventory. THEN, compile a build that has a Kernel with only the necessary software that's absolutely necessary to run the operating system (Debian, for example), plus the software choices you made: Thorium as your browser, Notepad ++ for text editor, etc.

  I'm just curious if an Installer can be configured to do that on the fly, and then install accordingly. Thanks!

• Well eh a good chunk of Linux uses GNU as the userland. We just call it Linux because it’s easier than saying. GNU/Linux I mean I don’t really care I call it Linux. However GNU is a major part of the system.

• Windows toolbox is fantastic …. any projection of when your first version of the Linux toolbox will be released???

• I think in the toolbox, instead of shipping your default dotfiles, you should give an option to customize the options in dotfiles. For example, it should be like checkbox for the aliases you want, select your binding (vim or emacs), histfilesize and explain what each options do. I think if this tool is targeted for new users, rather than shipping a default configuration you should keep it as an option and also in advanced customizations, make an option to customize each and every option. In that way, new users will feel welcome to learn how things work under the hood. Also, I want to emphasize that every single person under the sun has different preferences. Anyway, Great work btw.

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  I almost forgot to mention it. Make your scripts idempotent. The way you are doing things in bash is very "HACKY". In the long term, this is gonna create a lot of trouble.

• lets go this projects gonna be awesome

• I have used your winders script, love it… although it did bork one program, and had to reinstall it, but it didn't do that on another windows machine with basically the same setup. I think it was Gnucash.

• I might have went with GoLang because of charm-cli, it has good stuff and surely have made life easy… anyway now stick with rust.

• Eat one small bucket of ice cream coming in and you cut down the recovery time.

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