That's nice. Hopefully it getting more notorious means that HW companies will support it better. But, at the same time, if this is just from the Steam Deck, then, kinda fugged
That's nice. Hopefully it getting more notorious means that HW companies will support it better. But, at the same time, if this is just from the Steam Deck, then, kinda fugged
NixOS is as mature as arch, I'd say, but because of its nature it has issues here and there, but rarely so.
That said, the learning curve for nix/nixos is very very very steep, so good luck learning. It took me a while for me to use it nicely, and even then, I'm nothing more than a beginner. Even so, I'm quite comfortable and pretty much can't use any other linux distro.
Fedora has COPR, Opensuse has the OBS (which also works for other distros), NixOS (my beloved) has overlays...
Every single platform has them. From anything centralized to decentralized.
Nixos. For all its complexity and dilemmas and issues it has given me, it's the comfiest for me and gives me really cool features
For many it's a radical change in paradigm, and I assume many just want to understand it well
It is a win, but it's more of a Steam Deck win than a plain Linux one.
Things are getting better as snaps and flatpaks gain popularity, but both of those systems have lots of issues of their own, and arguably aren’t anywhere near as good as a proper native package for your distro. Flatpaks don’t really work for CLI tools. Snaps are stupidly slow. Both snaps and flatpaks still struggle with theming. Applications installed with either take up way more space than their natively-packaged equivalents.
Flatpaks would beat native packages if they didn't have a trillion papercuts and issues. I'm on NixOS because I want to avoid using flatpak.
Thanks, I used to use Bing as my default search engine for a while and it sucked for anything if you needed more than the 1st page of results
It's so kino. Incredibly hard to learn and much more to master, but much more powerful. Nothing beats easily modifying a derivation's source, or adding patches or build options or whatever you want.
I am more worried about them dropping packages to push users to use flatpaks.
Sort of. On the fediverse I saw that they are mostly just defederated, because the insults and stuff they can hurl far surpasses anything that someone on twitter/facebook/etc can say.
I wish I knew. I learned of it and started playing with it last year, with me using it full time since Feb of 2023, with a couple of hopping and then coming back to NixOS
Well, sure, proton is great, but I wish HW support was better more than I like proton.
hahahaha nice. I hope I don't have to dual boot windows. My laptop is fast enough for VMs
nixos so kino
I care about both design and battery, but I'm willing to compromise on battery because I'll still depend on x86 for games and some other stuff I believe. I like the design of the thinkpads too, black + red is a very kino combo.
I wish I could love AMD, but after being hit by the drm/amd#1455 bug, I can't ever. I'm quite happy with intel and my battery life is the same as when I used windows, so all is fine.
I never went back to windows. I had my stuff in a separate partition so when I went back to Fedora or Arch, I had my stuff there
I don't know. I myself am planning to get a new laptop next year and I'm in a dilemma between an expensive macbook pro or an expensive thinkpad x1 yoga. Similarly priced.
I don't plan on running Asahi ever. One of the big reasons I would want a mac is because I wanna try MacOS for myself. Also, I want a thinkpad with an intel meteor lake soc, which will be a radical upgrade. I'm quite hyped
just keep on going. i cant be happy on any other distro, so i have to use nixos
I dont have links in hand, but I remember the flatpak devs saying they targeted/care about desktop gui apps. It's one of the reasons why I won't use flatpaks anytime soon if ever
I don't need to dual boot because the stuff I play just works on proton or is "native" (minecraft)
That's not the point, because it's not what the OP asked for
link me
Your 2 big positives are stuff I agree with wholeheartedly. But I'm still holding out on using flatpak because it feels like an incomplete solution still. There's many things with it I could work around, definitely, but it feels annoying and with NixOS I don't have to worry about those issues because stuff just works for me.
As for FS, I wanted to love it, but doing some stuff with it is annoying. I wish it let you install stuff with dnf to /usr/local (like how it is on bsds or also macs with brew iirc).
Organizing my thoughs: I would love a future where flatpak just works, the sandboxing is nice and all you need is to click "yes" or "no" when an app wants/needs something, where you don't even need to use your distro's package manager (or you can't even use it because the distro is immutable and it updates on its own), but we're not yet there. Installing fonts on FS was a nightmare, and I had to layer stuff like powertop and other stuff I don't remember right now. Also flatpak isn't yet a good solution for development with VScode or similar stuff.
Unless they came with Wine, and the apps the avg joe just work with wine, I don't think it'd be a good thing. Hell, could you stop the employees at the store from telling people to just install windows after buying the laptop or the avg joe just doing that?
Looks nice. Luv gnome
Same. Exactly. Packaging can be a bit more complex, but once you get it, it's great. There's even the NUR, but I havent used it.
If you're gonna be like that I could also suggest to OP to move to Windows or MacOS 🤷♂️
google has a dumbass @ the helm