You don't. Seriously. The point of an ergonomic keyboard is to touch-type. You won't learn to do that if you look at your keyboard.
Print your keyboard layout on a sheet of paper, and hang it next to your monitor. Now when you want to type a character, look it up on your sheet, and without looking at your fingers, type it. Try to remember the position like "left index finger, two lines above the rest line".
I encountered limitations on NixOS, as instance Ly display manager, or using an app compiled by myself. Maybe there are solution but it is not always simple. Archlinux is way more flexible. Updates can theorically breaks the system , but since one year I never broke Arch despite updates on 200+ packages.
Notice I favors minimalist graphic environments (WM that don’t need updates ) and minimalists apps as much as possible, such as MPV and nsxiv. I don’t fear of some keyboard shortcuts. This philosophy probably helps Arch updates. Sometimes I had problem on apps (Inkscape and Dolphin-emu), I use appimages for them. Nothing is perfect, but Arch put lighter roadblocks than NixOS.
Let me raise a side concern here since the core questions already seems to be answered; reconsider the Nvidia GPUs. Depending on what you do, you might encounter significant shortcomings at the moment since they do not play perfectly with Wayland yet (which is clearly the future). So do some research in this direction first before you pull the trigger.
I second this. For a while my Nvidia card worked great on pop os for gaming. Then one day a kernel upgrade hosed it all. I tried for days to get it working again and finally realized I was swimming upstream and always would be. Bought an amd card and now I hardly have any issues.
Nvidia usually worked for me fine outside of gaming but I did literally find some distros that had severe issues even in the installer sometimes. Nvidia intentionally fucks over Linux support so I decided it was best not to support them anymore anyhow.
Sidenote, my games all look great and run better than they did on the Nvidia card. I always thought amd graphics cards were second rate, but I don’t think that’s at all true these days.
If all you want to do is play games, then AMD is the way to go. Better price to performance ratio.
But if you want to play around with AI, Nvidia is the only game in town. AMD still does not properly support GPGPU on their consumer cards. It’s infuriating and embarrassing really.
The performance I’m seeing on AMD makes me tend to agree with your first point. Looks fantastic and framerates are really nice.
I’m not really interested in AI except for the realtime background noise removal I’d heard about like 2 years ago which apparently Nvidia rtx cards can do. But in all this time I never set it up so I obviously wasn’t that interested in it!
Surely amd will get gpgpu support working at some point!
Actually I was able to change root into the installation now, but when I run grub2-install, I get EFI var errors, I kinda feel like giving up at this point haha.
I have also switched to Colemak and my advice is to just not do that. Just learn Colemak without looking at the keyboard, it’ll make you a better typist anyway and you can get comfortable with it within a few weeks. In particular you don’t want to move the little knobs on the index finger keys (F and J).
Don’t do that, if you get used to looking at the keys you will never truly learn to touch type. It’s annoying for a couple of weeks to have the layout opened in a window until you’ve learned it, but the payback is great, I also use colemak and my current keyboard is all blanks anyways.
I learned Dvorak. It was a painful four months going from chicken pecking a few words per minute to touch-typing. I would echo this advice. DO NOT pop the keys off and replace them. There are too many things baked into the BIOS or when you reinstall the OS, and you need to find the right key on a QWERTY layout.
I know it’s painful, but learn to type without looking at the keyboard. Print off a paper guide and place it below the monitor, and reference THAT when key hunting. Being able to touch-type is a serious superpower you will thank yourself for learning in the future.
I was setting up the containers to fix a problem when using wine, but found a different solution. I checked the system status. 0 units failed and x.509 isn’t mentioned
First of all: Do you need reproductibility? I.e. having the exact same system on multiple machines? If not NixOS might be a lot more complex than what you need.
Secondly: Instability does not mean what you think it means. People read instability and think the system will break, when instability actually means your system will be updated. In the context of a server, an update can be destructive, for day-to-day users it’s very rarely so.
Finally: why Arch or Nix, why not Ubuntu, Mint, Pop or any of the other dozens of distros that are usually recommended for new users?
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