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iopq, (edited )

Really? On my distro it’s


<span style="color:#323232;">services.xserver.enable = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#enable KDE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
</span>

And you can just comment out the gnome line

iopq,

It literally says enable plasma 5, how is that hard to understand?

iopq,

There are no implications to installing anything in NixOS because you can go back to a previous state at any point.

Running the software might change your settings, but can’t really do anything about that since that’s the software author’s choice and it’s in your home folder

iopq,

There should be an open source p2p application kind of like torrent, but for live streaming things

iopq,

NixOS is actually the best for an experience. For the basic stuff it’s easy enough, just put more programs into the system packages list to install some stuff

When you need to have older versions of packages while still having newest versions of others is where it really shines

iopq,

How do you figure? For example, Arch Linux community on r*ddit is bigger than the Ubuntu one

Where did you get the numbers?

iopq,

Well, most of windows users don’t even know they are using it, they think they are using a “PC” as opposed to Mac

Any Linux desktop user is already very tech savvy, I doubt there are any Ubuntu users that don’t know they are using Ubuntu so the windows commission is not apt

iopq,

Again, my mom is not on the Intel subreddit because she doesn’t know she has an Intel processor. In fact, she used to work for Intel, and she still doesn’t care

Ubuntu is nowhere near popular enough to be a default. I’m just wondering how to count the market share accurately

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iopq,

Apparently you can already try Cosmic on NixOS

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iopq,

This is a more believable figure than the trillions people were throwing around

iopq,

NixOS, you need to learn a programming language just to administer your system

iopq,

It’s insecure, which lets governments like China poison it. They straight up block encrypted DNS

iopq,

She’s the one who hired contractors. You need someone who decides what work needs to be done, find the people who are qualified, and pay them.

Not all contractors do good work, she got scammed once by a guy who does crap labor and tries to upcharge to fix it. It happens

Even if she sold the houses, the person buying them would probably want a return on their investment and end up renting it out to people

The only way rent would be cheap is if there was a lot of supply of it, less restrictions on building like zoning, fewer fees on developers.

iopq,

She spends the same amount of money as you do, she just doesn’t plan on dying in a decade.

iopq,

Then you should support less zoning restrictions and lower development fees to increase the availability of housing.

iopq,

Landlords follow market pricing, so if there’s enough housing the prices go down. Landlords are not the reason rent is high

iopq,

My mom is too old to wash dishes in a restaurant, it’s really hard labor and she has carpal tunnel. She tried, it’s just not something a 60+ year old person is fit to do. So she can’t just sit on that money and do hard labor on the side. But drawing some plans and hiring contractors while painting some walls on her own time is something she can do

iopq,

Return on investment. Not everyone has money to buy a house. Home prices being high keeps rents high. Increase housing supply and it will resolve the issue

iopq,

It comes from owning an investment. The stock market has similar returns to the real estate market.

But the real estate market doesn’t need to keep going up. For example, after the increase in supply of housing in Austin, the prices are down 16% off the 2022 peak

If this could be replicated for the whole country, it would improve the situation immediately.

I don’t understand the law you’re proposing. Would it apply to hotels? Do you need to live in the hotel you own? Apartment building? Hot spring resort? Ski lodge?

iopq, (edited )

That would encourage investors to buy up property to build hotels on it, increasing residential prices by decreasing supply

iopq, (edited )

My kneejerk reaction is not to landlords. It’s to “there should be a law”

If you implement this, people will be living long term in hostels in 6 people dorms because the landlords are not required to live in them.

I suggest reading Freakonomics, it explains how similar laws created perverse incentives in the real world

iopq, (edited )

Why is my hypothetical disqualifying? A lot of people actually use their houses as hotels, it’s called air bnb. It’s pretty profitable to use the property like that

If you include the hostel owners to live in them, they will be converted into hotels that don’t have that requirement. That’s not my argument. My argument is permanent residents will be forced to live in hotels as apartment buildings get converted by their current owners who can’t possibly live in all of their properties at the same time

iopq,

It’s not so simple, my mom purchased a property with her divorce settlement and the return on the investment can be good, but it can also be not as good. She remodeled an Oregon property in Salem and sold it for less than cost later. While she did get rent for it before she sold, she could have saved a lot of effort just buying dividend stocks.

Real estate can be a good investment, but it can be a poor one.

iopq,

NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros’

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