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lily33, to linux in Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar?

Exactly! Many of the criteria included aren’t all that good for new users, and neither are the suggestions. It’s not really a good resource for experienced users either.

lily33, to linux in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

Well, when you get from 3 to 2000 in only a few years, the vast majority of these versions will be unusable. No wonder they had to drop everything after 11…

lily33, to selfhosted in Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

That said, you can use a third party service only for sending, but receive mail on your self-hosted server.

lily33, to linux in NixOS beginner resources

After you’re done with the initial setup, I’ve found looking for nix code on GitHub to be very useful for seeing how to do things.

lily33, to linux in The CEO of PROTON answers YOUR questions! Drive, Linux support, Photos, features, and a lot more!

Indeed, my first though was that these are not MY questions.

lily33, to linux in [Request] Where to start with dot files?

I wouldn’t say there’s a place to start. Once you start using programs that are configured through config files, learn about those config files in particular. Eventually, you might find that you prefer editing config files even for programs that have GUI settings - then you dive in more.

Regardless, once your config files become complex enough that you can’t quickly rewrite them if necessary, start looking for a dotfiles manager, tracking them in git, backing them up, etc…

lily33, to linux in [Request] Where to start with dot files?

Actually, there are many programs that are designed to be configured by editing the config files. It’s not a “very unusual” case.

lily33, to linux in Arch or NixOS?

Actually, both Arch and NixOS are pretty reliable, and won’t just break out of nowhere, leaving your computer unusable.

lily33, to linux in A symptom of linux past traumas

Indeed, the best way to learn how to do something that doesn’t have a good writeup somewhere, is to search GitHub for nix code.

lily33, to linux in Louvre: C++ library for building Wayland compositors.

There’s desperate need to a library that’s simpler to use than wlroots or smithay - but unless it supports more protocols (later shell, gamma control, session lock), I don’t think this is a real a alternative yet.

lily33, (edited ) to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

Do you think the use of OCI containers/images is a mistake/bad choice from blendOS?

No. It’s probably the best way to run packages from Arch, Debian. Ubuntu, Fedora, and others, all on the same system.

How is NixOS different?

NixOS simply doesn’t tackle that problem, so it doesn’t come with containers out of the box. If you want to run packages from other distros on NixOS, you’d probably need to manually configure the containers.

I feel like you’re under the impression that the three distros, NixSO, blendos, and Vanilla OS, have similar goals. I don’t know about Vanilla OS, but the main similarity between the other two is that they’re both non-standard in some way.

But they’re actually solving completely different problems: BlendOS wants to be a blend of different OSes, NixOS wants to have a reproducible, declarative configuration (declarative here means, you don’t list a bunch of steps to reach your system state, but instead declare what that state is).

lily33, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

Well, for playing games I use the flatpak version of steam and it works OK.

For dev work, it’s great overall. Especially its ability to create separate reproducible environments with whatever dependencies you need for every project. However, there are some tools (rare, but they exist) that don’t work well with it, and if your dev work happens to need them, it can becomes a problem.

For day to day (i.e. web browsing), it works the same as anything, with one disadvantage: there is a disadvantage here: it downloads a lot more than other distros on update, and uses more disk space. The biggest difference between NixOS, and say Arch, is not how it behaves once it’s up and running, but in how you configure it. Specifically, you have to invest a lot of time to learn how, and set up your system initially. But then reinstalls, and (some of) the maintenance, become easier.

lily33, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

To clarify, I was referring specifically to its ability to specify the full system configuration in its config file - not overall. But I haven’t used blendos, and my impression is mostly from a quick look at their documentation. They have a snippet with sample configuration. There, they have a “Modules” section, but I couldn’t find what modules are available, what options they have, how to configure them if we want to do something more complex than the available options.

Then containers are clearer: they have a list of installed apps, and then commands to bring them to the desired state (somewhat similar to a dockerfile). But even then, i imagine that if you have a more complex configuration, that’s going to get clunkier.

lily33, (edited ) to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

I think NixOS is awesome, but it certainly doesn’t offer “access to (basically) all Linux-capable software, no matter from what repo.” - at least not natively. You can do that through containers, but you can do that with containers on any distro. Where it shines is declaring the complete system configuration (including installed programs and their configuration) in its config file (on file-based configuration, I wouldn’t really consider blendos a viable competitor).

lily33, (edited ) to linux in GitHub - SerenityOS/serenity: The Serenity Operating System 🐞

Reading this text, it looks kinda like the difference between red () apples, red () apples, and red () apples…

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