NixOS manages to be all of these at once except the manual dependency management
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A boring OS is a healthy OS.
I was about to say! Who the hell thinks their computer being reliable is boring!?
I'll never understand why some people have the need to constantly fiddle with their OS install. But, different strokes for different folks.
Look at Mr. "I have something better to do than build compilation queue files for LibreOffice" over here.
In between gaming and gooning theres just no time left in the day for anything else.
/S
Boredom, I spent whole summer (2022 or 2023) just installing different Linux distributions, I was in highschool and I was bored during summer break and my laptop was kinda slow with windows 10 so I decided to try Linux and was spending whole summer just installing Linux distributions and playing around. Now I use Linux mint because it is easy to setup and works.
"Manual configuration is exhausting" my brother in christ that's the whole fun of having a fucking computer
I think I just reached the point where my NixOS is configured exactly as I want, so now the system just works and works without me changing anything. π Iβm gonna have to start having sex since I can no longer justify it on the lack of time.
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Oh please. Be real. Are you sure there's nothing in your flake to refactor or modularize? :)
I hit that point, needed to add a few things and changed settings around, and everything broke. I tinker with little things way too much to use Nix.
Time to "accidentally" break something
My Arch install has had no issues upgrading for years, even with the big KDE updates
@mech I use Void Linux on my old laptop from 2007 and it's fine enough for me. If I'll change Windows to Linux on my main PC though, I'll pick something Debian-based (but not Ubuntu-based), because I need something balanced and with lots of software available to download.
Based on my years of community experience, whichever you pick is wrong and you're a bad person for thinking that it was the right choice.
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I know. I specifically chose not to.
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Idk I've been on Slackware for 10 years.. And I've just ended up learning how to use the OS and change things as I please.
I love that Slackware still exists, and try every new release.
It works as a daily driver and after initial setup is less of a hassle than people think, but I also can't really find any good reason to use it over more modern distros.
Valid. I really like that the whole system is held up with a bunch of bash scripts. Which is not a plus for a lot of people.
I came up on Slackware, used it exclusively from like '96 - 08'. Have not touched it since. I have fond memories of debugging XFree86.conf and compiling half of what I installed from source. π€£ This is a wild slack themed day- I just ran into a Bob Dobbs picture in the wild. π
A wild Bob is calling you π€£ Tbh I've not debugged a config like that in so long, since like 10 and I was a wee lad. Most things just work now. I've also been using Wayland and pipewire.
For me, I always keep coming back to Arch tbh
Sometimes I get fed up with managing a whole system and once in a blue moon bricking my system on an update, but the alternatives are always worse, and with btrfs now, I don't have to worry about the latter problem.
Nix was the closest to pulling me away. A centralized config? Beautiful. Static package store without dependency conflicts? Beautiful. Immutable applications? The WORST idea we've ever had as a community. For instance, imo, VS Code extensions are fundamentally incompatible with Nix. I spent weeks trying to get it to work doing multiple different things to try and hope it would work. It can't. VS Code just has to be mutable.
Anyway so I'm back to arch and have been for over a year since I tried Nix (and before that Fedora which has its own issues). Before that I had been on Arch for 4 years.
I think I'll stay now. It's really the best option out there. In my mind, Arch is Linux, i.e. it's how an OS should be built for the Linux kernel and the FOSS ecosystem, and it won't ever be beat
As soon as I realized distro upgrades are a minefield every time on a desktop I tried arch and never looked back. In hindsight, backports are insanity and just always using upstream is obviously the way to go. As a bonus, I can actually understand how arch is constructed when I need to because the wiki is amazing
But have you tried Gentoo?
The main thing that keeps me from going back to it is how much I hate manually setting up an encrypted logical volume over multiple disks with BTRFS snapshotting.
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Just stay on Debian and be patient for the new Plasma version. Problem solved.
But GIMP just fixed the issues I was having with it, too!
Can you cherry pick the patch?
Best I can do is pepper brush it.
Sid for life!
"Step-Operating-Sytem what are you doing!?"
What's the one on the left?
Either way, boring is good.
Boring is good indeed. I'm running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.
Yup. I agree. Immutable distros save me from myself and endless tweaking. I have it on my gaming laptop and my gaming desktop. I'll be throwing it on my wife's gaming desktop soon enough.
Bazzite iirc
Bazzite. An immutable^[1]^ distro pre-configured for gaming.
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The root system is one image and can't be altered.
Software is installed from a GUI software center via flatpak.
A bit like Android.
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