NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^
For anyone worried about the Nix drama, a fork has already happened.
You can find it under lix.systems.
Thank you, was wondering what happened there.
There’s been a couple forks but that’s not all. They are made votes to massively restructure their governance system. Things are looking up on the main nixos branch!
I use guix cause having an entire OS centered around Scheme is cool and based.
Wearing out the parentheses keys on my keyboard
Cool, though mileage will vary considering guix is linux-libre
You can use non-guix
I can and do, of course!
The point was only about guix
Or do you mean I can change kernel to non-libre?
Yes, just like with many distros you can add external repositories. Nonguix is a repository with non-free software like the linux kernel and binary firmware
Will check out, thank you!
Figured a link would help: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
Ignore the weird wording about not promoting it on the page, it’s just a warning to keep people from complaining about the nonguix packages to the guix devs, but there’s lots of crossover
Do you happen to know if KDE is already available there?
KDE is not, Plasma is:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Desktop-Services
Unless I’m missing something, Plasma is the KDE desktop, there isn’t a separate desktop environment just called KDE… In fact, it’s full name is KDE Plasma, it’s just frequently shortened to either KDE or Plasma
What’s the difference? You mean a DE is available but not the base software?
Wasn’t it something like, KDE was the distro and desktop name but now the desktop is Plasma?
The distro is KDE Neon
The desktop is KDE Plasma, or Plasma for short
After using Silverblue for some time I tried to use Arch again, and pacman had failed at installation process. A easy fix for that is to be like: 1. Get list of all the installed packages; 2. Install all these packages again with --force. But after using immutables the situation is just meh.
And also now I dislike package managers which require to be used with sudo, and cannot ask for permissions with polkit.
So. BTW, I don’t use Arch.
Is the package manager as extensive as arch? Does it have an AUR equivalent? I’ve been wanting to try Nix or GUIX for a while.
Windows is decidedly the green line, Debian the red.
100% true
Was thinking same. I always think windows is the easiest to get used from beginning, but that could be cause windows was the first operating system i was dealing with. Playing with the amiga 3000 could be the start, but there i was only 5
Windows XP wasn’t exactly intuitive to me and now only I know what my keybinds for Hyprland are so um maybe you’re right. Honestly switching to Ubuntu made things a lot easier for me than they were on windows because it was easier to change settings and similar just by using terminal commands rather than a weird gui or not at all.
Maybe it is the weird gui…as a kid i didnt question it and just get used to it so now it feels “natural”
The axis don’t make sense.
The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress
The original comic was very accurate
I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it’s cheap to pick up…yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I’ll ever be ready for that, haha.
So if you’ve played Rimworld it’ll feel familiar. Much more complex but part of that complexity is because you can traverse the Z axis, and make multi-level fortresses. I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date). If that’s still the case, then the end of every fortress (that doesn’t succumb to a mood spiral or a were-beast or an elf invasion or the circus or forgetting to pack an anvil or vampires or a cavern collapse) is fps death. Usually from cats. But remember, losing is fun!
I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date)
Dwarf Fortress started adding multithreading last year along with an engine update. This is in large part to Tarn hiring outside help to work on the Steam release, and the game has never been better.
I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.
You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.
Except it is in 3d, you can just only see 1 slice at a time making it that much harder.
No, the black line is EVE Online. There could have been an edit replacing it with Dwarf Fortress, but the original is definitely about EVE Online.
Oh dang you’re right, I definitely remember a DF version but yes
Woohoo I’m almost driving the bulldozer… Almost
One day, one day soon I will install nixOS on my ThinkPad. Til then I will continue using silverblue like a pleb
I’ve been searching for so long for a way to have my software and configs and project deps tracked in a way that doesn’t have me setting things up every time I switch to a new machine or–worse–opening an old project. I found some things that get me most off the way there like docker, rtx/mise, direnv, stow, or the package manager for whatever language I’m working in at a time. Still, nothing quite does what I need.
I tried our NixOS and have it on three machines as well as Nix on WSL. It took a while for me to figure it out, especially moving to flakes and separating user config out to home-manager. But it was fun enough to try and fail and fail and fail then succeed that I kept going. I think it might be what I’m looking for. I was able to set up a new machine by just cloning a repo and any time I cd into a project on NixOS or a remote Linux server or even Windows with WSL, everything is just ready for me. Do wish it were fully POSIX compliant, though.
I know this is from more of a developer perspective, but even for gaming and graphics I’ve never had an easier time getting Nvidia drivers set up.
I promise I’m not shilling. I still have a lot to learn. I think I made it past the cliff on this meme but I might be surprised.
Was the original a joke about MMO learning curves with the top line being Path of Exile?
EVE Online I think
I work with spreadsheets all day, why would I want to do it in my free time?
I’m pretty sure I saw this with EVE Online a long time ago.
Eve Online is the finest, most intricate MMO ever created, and I absolutely hate it.
It’s… boring. Especially early on. And without paying for skips.
Yeah
I give up, what’s POTBS?
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Never heard of it, either
Never heard here either, I’d say RuneScape is more popular, so this chart is basically invalid LMAO
Shame AO wasn’t there, probably not Eve level but also more enjoyable
Path of exile is fine as long as you follow someone elses build
You might be able to get through the story and a couple of maps pretty easily without a guide, later acts will be difficult if you specced really wrong, but if you want to run endgame content and league mechanics while on a hardcore solo self founded character then you better go get fucking gud, mate.
That’s exactly how nixos went for me you feel like you understand it and then went to go and look at old configs after awhile and was like what in the fuck and rewrote the whole thing but once you figure it out it’s pretty easy to keep learning
When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.
I think the point apart from declaring the whole system is that Nix saves changes to config files, this eliminates the concept of .pacnew / .pacsave.
I’ve been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.
The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.
About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.
I use Gentoo btw
I don’t think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.
I don’t like Anduril either, but what’s wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?
I’m with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it’s a surveillance company.
NixOS documentation refusing to generate pages like readthedocs can drive a man insane…
NixOS documentation refusing to generate pages like readthedocs can drive a man insane…
LFS would be a much better fit.
No temple OS?
Joking aside, has anyone legitimately tried to port an app to TempleOS, just for fun?
Dude I hate you. You got my curiosity. I’ll have to look into it. Damn it.
Lol let me know if you find a good video.
