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I'm glad Bazzite is finally getting some more mainstream attention, it's an incredible distro! It's my go-to recommendation these days, and what I'd use myself if I wasn't a NixOS nerd lol

Yeah, it really bugs me that it's basically absorbed what used to be public forums and whatnot into its own proprietary bubble where search engines don't reach while not even being a good fit for that kind of thing to begin with

Best I can do is unhinged and passionate, take it or leave it

Wow, I legit just ordered a used pixel yesterday to give graphene a try lol. Uncanny timing!

Anyhow, that's great news! I can really see the EU sinking its teeth into this if nothing else.

As soon as I saw it was about "the whole gender stuff" I knew it had to be some garbage bigoted take lol

Ideally, you need at least some basic understanding to use the vast majority of languages. The problem isn't even writing the code itself, you can definitely just memorize the keywords and some basic concepts and have at it. If you ask me, the real issue is the availability, amount and overall quality of documentation and learning material if you go about it that way.

I have a few coworkers who skipped the learning English part and learned most everything from other non native speakers and they tend to be crippled by often not really being able to make use of official documentation or keep up with new things, since the vast majority of content out there is in English. It also has the unfortunate side effect of pushing them to stick with whatever it is they learned way back when and not really looking for better ways of getting things done.

So basically, you can pull it off without knowing English but it's going to be suboptimal and/or painful IMO.

Based ngl

Turns out most were seemingly glad to comply when Netflix pulled that bs so I'll be legitimately shocked if most major streaming services don't follow suit within the next few months. I'm glad my seafaring ass hasn't had to deal with that kind of annoyance in years lol.

A lot of us don't live in the US to begin with, so I assume a significant portion of us just use whatever the local standard is. That's where I've been at so far, the Brazilian layout is a QWERTY variant so not that different. It does make some things more awkward, but you get used to what you have to work with.

Brackets and curly braces are less convenient off the top of my head, backticks too. Vim is a tad less ergonomic without some extra fiddling, for instance. In fact, I've been considering getting a US keyboard for coding to make that kinda thing less of an issue, US international makes accents and whatnot accessible enough that I think I could make it work.

As someone from a developing country, I'm painfully aware of how most big publishers choose to ignore recommended prices and just go with a straight USD conversion most of the time so I can only hope this doesn't screw them even further.

I really wish it was viable for Valve to enforce a ceiling on suggested prices or something along those lines, it's about the only way I see that ever changing. Well, that, or everyone just becoming a full-time sailor, I suppose!

I'll second Rust, it's so fresh and versatile! You can go from super low level stuff all the way to things like web frameworks with WebAssembly and whatnot.

The memory model is definitely a unique beast but I've found it gave me some insight on how it all actually works behind the scenes and I appreciate the strictly enforced correctness too.

I wouldn't say unusable but NVIDIA definitely makes things way more painful than they ought to be with their closed source drivers and general stubbornness to support newer technologies under Linux, see Wayland. Mint's generally older packages also might be working against you.

In my experience, I've had the smoothest experiences with gaming focused/adjacent distros which just include the NVIDIA drivers out of the box, such as Nobara or Bazzite. Those just work for the most part with no user intervention, and you don't even have to think about it.

Ah, my bad. I'm so used to it all that I can't help but spit out jargon with no context sometimes 😅

I'm referring to apps like Sonarr, which basically keeps an eye on torrent/usenet providers and downloads episodes for you automatically. So you tell it you want some show, optionally set the quality you want it at, and it takes care of everything so that the episodes just show up on Jellyfin/Plex after they air and it grabs them. There's also Radarr for movies and a whole bunch of related ones.

My understanding as a NixOS user is a lot of its fundamentals are very strongly coupled to systemd. It's responsible for things like running system activation scripts and managing any services it exposes options to, so replacing it sounds like a tall order.

I'm not aware of any Nix-based alternatives, but I'd definitely welcome them! Oh and also, as others have pointed out, Guix might fit the bill depending on your needs.

I knew a tvtropes link was going to be here as soon as I saw the question lol, here goes my next three hours I guess

No such thing, we all start somewhere! :)

Anyway, you could in fact do that if you were thinking of trying out other Fedora Atomic images such as Silverblue and whatnot (see also the ublue page listing tons of others, including your bazzite!). This uses different tooling, so unfortunately not in this case.

Imo it's decent at what it set out to be: user friendly, painless realtime chatting, with some voice/video calling to top it up. That said, they keep adding questionable bloat to try and upsell Nitro subs so honestly I can only see it worsening as time goes on.

I know it's arguably part of why it's intimidating to your average newcomer but I adore that it's mostly nerdy techies lol. I'm so used to dropping something vaguely technical and being met with the online equivalent of blank stares so people being willing and able to engage with that sort of thing is super nice!

I read that as (black hair) options, not black (hair options) and was extremely confused for a second lol. On topic, I love the initiative and hope it catches on!

Yeah I've gotten into Nix recently and it's slowly been taking everything over bit by bit. So now I have the standalone package manager when I'm on WSL or other distros, full NixOS on a couple machines, fully reproducible LXC containers for my Proxmox build, the list goes on and on! Hell, I've got it on my steam deck to manage my CLI apps just because I can lol

That's basically the one thing you can't do right now unless you add another copy to the family iirc, which is fair enough imo

I've used btrfs for gaming and deduping in particular helps a lot with steam prefixes since it's a lot of individual folders with similar files. I don't have hard data but the before and after comparison I've made after getting my deck from ext4 to btrfs left me more than satisfied. I'd guess compression doesn't hurt either, although again I don't have actual numbers.

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Yup, same. I've been a developer for years and used to code way before that and to this day I can't write any non trivial bash script without looking up half a dozen of things lol, glad I'm not alone.
I've recently come across nushell, and it's everything I've ever wanted when it comes to shell scripting. It's not POSIX compliant so you can't just run it anywhere but it helps keep my sanity in personal projects and whatnot. See also, elvish, xonsh.

I've been happily adding to Dave the Diver's numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.

Last I checked offline hours didn't count either, yeah. I'm not sure if anything is supposed to have changed in the meantime, as it's been a while.

As a recent NixOS convert coming from Bazzite (Kinoite/Silverblue with user friendly daily driver and gaming tweaks), and before that mostly Arch-based distros, I'd say it boils down to the tradeoff between having way more control over reproducibility and having to deep dive into the often poorly documented domain specific rabbit hole that is Nix. If you're comfortable with going out of your way to learn, looking for examples, reading source code to find out what options you can use or how stuff works, it can absolutely be worth it but it's a steep price to pay for sure.

I personally adore what Nix sets out to solve and find it extremely rewarding to learn. Plus, as a developer, I enjoy puzzling out how to get stuff done and don't mind diving into the source if I need to, so it works for me. I'd absolutely prefer solid documentation, of course, but it's not a deal breaker.

When it comes to software, the Nix repo has a staggering amount of prebuilt binaries ready to download (which you can search here) and it's often not too hard to hack together your own reproducible package if you want after you get comfortable enough with it. At least for my use cases, I haven't really missed much from my days using Arch and the AUR. If anything, I appreciate how much more consistent it tends to be in comparison.

If you, like myself, go for a flake (yet another rabbit hole within a rabbit hole) based setup and point to the unstable repo, you basically get a fully reproducible, easy to update and rollback rolling release not too dissimilar to using Arch with auto btrfs snapshots enabled. That's how I used to do Arch and it feels pretty familiar.

Anyway, that's what I got. If you have any more specific concerns or questions I'd be happy to elaborate!

Edit: I forgot to add but I find a nice way to get comfortable without fully commiting is using Nix as a package manager on any old distro. You could install it on Endeavour (I recommend this method) and play around with Home Manager, use it as a dotfiles manager on steroids, have it declaratively install and manage the CLI apps you can't live without and whatnot, see how you like it. That's how I started, I have a common HM config I've so far used with Debian at work, Ubuntu running under WSL when I'm on Windows and now NixOS itself.

As someone who clicked partly to check if it was Rust-based, I think that's a 100% fair call-out lol

Lemmy does support title editing btw if that's something you'd like to do, unlike certain similar sites ;)

I love it, Bitwarden has supported generating passphrase style passwords for a while and it's basically that. It's my go-to these days.

Plain DLSS definitely works, I'm guessing they mean that specific reconstruction feature. I'm sure it'll be implemented eventually if it's possible at all though.
Side note, a kind of related feature that is missing for sure from the Linux drivers is DLDSR, and plain DSR for that matter. As a heavy user of both, it's a bit of a personal deal breaker.

As for the wallet thing , it does depend on the payment method at least in my country

Btw just in case you aren't aware, the nag can be done away with. I don't have a link off the top of my head but it's out there.

Some quick research on my end seems to suggest there's a setting for that scenario in advanced power settings called "Pause media players when suspending", I'd try that before anything else

Edit: As for why it happens, assuming it woke up from suspension/hibernation, for the most part programs are going to pick up exactly where they left off unless the system goes out of its way to tell them to perform some action (in this case, pausing). Since your lock screen is pretty much "on top" of the entire running system, so to speak, it results in the behavior you're experiencing.

Yeah, I'm all for a new PCVR headset entering the scene but the actual nice features that separate it from the rest being left out has kinda killed my hype. Still not a terrible headset, but I'm not getting hardware I can't use properly.

Great tip, I didn't even realize ublock filters were flexible enough to affect that

So my egg has (very) recently cracked, and I just so happen to have fresh T levels results at hand. Kinda shocked to find I apparently have higher T levels than 95-ish percent of cis men lol, was fully expecting the opposite.

Thank you for sharing both the graph and your story too, that's cool as heck! :)

I've been voice training solo for a while and am always on the lookout for more resources, anecdotes and info in general so I'd definitely be up for it!

Bazzite, a gaming-oriented immutable distro with up to date Fedora packages and kernel, a lot of the kernel patches you'd want for gaming, automatic daily updates in the background, the option of installing the Nix package manager and Distrobox out of the box. They even have a Steam Deck version that works just like stock UI/UX wise but with all the added goodies.

Plus, on rpm-ostree/ublue-os as a whole, it just amazes me to no end you can basically look at deploying a distro as if it's a git repo these days. Wanna try Gnome? Rebase to the corresponding image and reboot, your data is still there. Don't like it? Quickly rollback or just pick the previous entry on GRUB. Incredible stuff, I'm sticking with those if I can help it for the foreseeable future.

Adding to that as a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, no word I'm aware of comes even close to that one either. Our words don't really use Y like that to begin with.