string split/collect and similar can't work unless its a builtin. The set foo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn't work if string was an external binary.

Love the Towerfall OST myself, it was such a shock to hear about him.

Basically the Matrix Spec Change Proposal system, I like it. Opens the floor to more players, gives tool authors a list of protocols they could choose to build on, and hopefully compositors will choose to adopt or adapt one of these protocols before writing their own.

manually call the others

Yeah, most distros will set up source chains to make things nicer for users.

IMO the NUL-delimited options are by far the biggest win for shell scripting. $' ' will be the most commonly used addition, but "$(printf '...')" was always an option before. You don't really have an alternative read -d ''.

Exact same. Sway's 1.0 release was March of 2019, and it did everything I needed.

Even playing games on my desktop, Xwayland worked fine for me.

You're deluded if you think that "everybody" let alone a large minority of people say that the Linux desktop is "good, perfect and polished".

I learned Fish by helping someone else in a chat. There's a lot of cool things, and I think it's an excellent shell. Fish is an excellent choice for a shell.

Zsh is a much more featureful language (with globbing/subscript/PE flags, native floating point arithmetic, the whole man zshmodules), which doesn't necessarily make it a better shell. But I like those features, and I find it to be a natural choice to write more complex programs which normally would be a code smell for Bash.

The plugin ecosystem for is much larger than Fish's as well.

If this becomes a Wayland protocol, then I'd love to see other desktops adopt it as well.

I could see a few classic TWMs use those hints, or at least expose them for users to script functionality.

I was going to say "At least I can click 'Continue reading' and it actually goes away immediately" but actually, no. This is still enshittification, I've just gotten used to shittier versions of it.

I've done symlinks into a separate directory before, but by far my favorite method is to just let ~ be a git repo. It's maximally simple, no other tooling needed besides git.

There are a few key steps to making this work well:

• echo '*' > ~/.gitignore: This way git status isn't full of untracked files. I can still git add -f what I actually want to track.
• git branch -m dots: For clarity in my shell prompt.
• [ -d "$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/bin" ] && PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/bin and similar if there's config I want to apply only to certain hosts.

Most Reddit apps I used worked like this by default. It's not my preference either (I liked Slide because I could swap the tap and long-press actions) but I'm not complaining.