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priapus,

You use the autotiling script to make i3 dynamic

priapus,

A lot of features of the Nix package manager, such as having multiple versions of a package installed, don’t work with FHS.

priapus,

Those two and nix-alien.

priapus,

Most apps work fine, apps that don’t get put in a FHS sandbox.

priapus,

Use vesktop. Works great on Wayland and supports streaming with audio.

priapus,

Incredibly excited to try it. I love the early support for Nix, I plan to run it as soon as a NixOS module becomes available!

Huge props to the design team here, the aesthetic looks amazing on all of the apps I’ve tried. They all feel consistent and look great.

priapus,

GNOME is primarily written in C

priapus,

Closer to 50/50, and other parts of the GNOME desktop like mutter, are largely C. Saying the entire GNOME desktop is mostly JS is silly.

priapus,

Using JavaScript isn’t inherently a bad thing. JavaScript can be very useful when used for scripting. Obviously anything with a new for performance will be done in C.

priapus,

That page also shows that there is more C. That page is also specifically the shell, not all of the desktop.

priapus,

You don’t get to decide what too much JS in the project is unless you actually work on and have in depth knowledge of the project. I dont like JS, but it has its uses.

Many people are conflating modern electron bloatware with ‘JS bad’, but things are not that simple.

priapus,

You’re right, they said the desktop shell, which is still incorrect, but I guess a little less incorrect. My bad.

priapus,

Nix the package manager uses the Nix language, and NixOS is a distro built on top of it. They’re all part of the same topic, and the article was talking about that.

priapus,

Integer scaling works perfectly, even with legacy apps. Fractional scaling works great with native apps.

priapus,

Stating problems you’ve had as if they are things that will effect everybody makes you looks very silly. I could do the same thing by stating that Windows is garbage because it doesn’t boot with rebar enabled and it bluescreens non stop. It’s also consistently slower to boot, open any software, and less responsive overall. The default file manager is also pathetic, and the software management is frustrating.

It sounds like you had some significant problems with your setup, but the way you’re describing it, it sounds like you didn’t properly troubleshoot it.

GNOME and Plasma both have great fractional scaling support with Wayland. I have never had whatever problems you’re describing with font rendering. On my machine it looks slightly better than windows, and slightly worse than MacOS. I used an Nvidia GPU with Linux for 4 years and never had any performance problems with the official driver.

Please realize your experience isn’t the be-all and end-all that decides whether using Linux can be a good experience.

NixOS beginner resources

Heya, been hearing about NixOS for a long time now, mostly from the peeps over at the Linux Unplugged podcast. So was thinking about jumping onto the nix-train, however it seems like it has a learning curve. Does anyone have any good learning resources, blog-posts, guides, whatever beans that you used to get started with NixOS?...

priapus,

nix.dev and zero-to-nix.com are the best resources imo.

priapus,

Cosmic DE definitely. HDR too

priapus,

It’s not finished, but it works on the current release. wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Running_under_Wayla…

Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d fuck smth up...

priapus,

Haha, thats a fun coincidence. At some point Priapus became my go to for accounts I didn’t want connected to my main online name.

priapus,

The hardest part will probably be the installation, but if you can follow a youtube guide you’ll be fine. Go for a distro like PopOS or Fedora that have polished out of the box experiences.

priapus,

There is no open source RCS messaging app afaik

priapus,

Why would that make it a pass? Did you read the whole thing? It includes SystemD by default and an option to easily switch to it.

priapus,

Besides the Unix philosophy what problems do you have with systemd?

priapus,

All it does is symlink init to systemd. That is very unlikely to ever cause a problem. It will function the same as using SystemD by default. This distro has been around and working well for quite a long time now.

priapus,

A fraction, but still not an insignificant amount. Either way, all it does it change /sbin/init to be a symlink to systemd. That’s the same exact thing distros using systemd by default do.

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