I’ve officially been using Fedora for a month on Tachyon and I have enough changes made that I think it’s time for me to do a progress post. At a glance, I’m using: Alacritty as my terminal emulator. Bash as my shell. Starship for my prompt. Tmux as default. Dunst for desktop notifications. i3 as my WM. Picom as my compositor. Rofi as my app/script launcher. Polybar as my bar. Catppuccin Mocha as my theme for everything....
The other day I stumbled across this post about customising the GRUB bootloader to display ASCII art. Among the comments was Nx2’s tutorial on how to do this. The steps listed unfortunately don’t quite work for Fedora. Fedora uses GRUB2 instead of GRUB so update-grub doesn’t work. In order to get this to work on Fedora, I needed to: Comment out the GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" in addition to adding the GRUB_THEME variable with a path to the theme file as Nx2 does....
After having a conversation with a friend, I realized I had gone through several different “approaches” for interacting with the University of Waterloo’s student server for completing some of my coursework. While I think the workflow I have right now is the best that I have used, that is also what I thought with each of the previous iterations so I’m positive that this will probably change in the future again....