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MountainMan wrote

Those compile times do get rough when you're installing the big stuff. It drove me to find other more minimal programs, though I kind of took it to the extreme and now I use Emacs for literally everything.

I was really hoping Gentoo would work out better for you, been on the edge of my seat this whole time.

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asterism OP wrote

Many times I have thought going full terminal but I am still attached to graphical web browsers. Trying to install qutebrowser (and failing several times) was fun.

Though one of these days I will try a terminal only system.

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MountainMan wrote

Hey, qutebrowser was what got me into the whole keyboard-centric thing.

I won't claim they're on-par with the mainstream browsers, but Emacs has a few graphical browser modes available for it. The Emacs Application Framework Browser is probably my favorite, but EWW can be nice with a lot of tweaking.

Personally I use EXWM to make Emacs my entire desktop environment. Perfect mishmash of graphical and text for my taste.

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asterism OP wrote

Ah I have heard of doing that. I think the systemcrafters guy has a series on exwm if memory serves.

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MountainMan wrote

Yeah, I really like his channel, his Emacs From Scratch series is what got me to try Emacs in the first place.

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