moved from piefed.social/u/rozodru due to qutebrowser issues.
Window Maker is still great, love the NeXTStep setup.
Window Maker on NixOS however is an absolute pain in the ass.
I’m actually trying PikaOS for a week, I installed it lastnight. If you want something like Mint, easy to install as Mint, but focused on gaming then it’s a decent distro. It actually works very well with my specific asus laptop that has an AMD iGPU and Nvidia descrete GPU. It’s also improved my battery life over NixOS (which I think is just poor config on my part).
all that being said I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it. However it does seem to be the best distro i’ve used on this laptop, just works really well with it for whatever reason.
you’re not going to notice anything that’s going to knock your socks off but you might notice like slightly less stutter for fps drop for some things. It does depend on the game though.
I use NixOS with the CachyOS Kernel because I play EVE Online. It’s a game that pretty much requires you have multiple clients/accounts going at the same time. For me with the CachyOS kernel if I have 3+ clients open I notice a lot less fps stuttering/lag over say the standard Linux Kernel or even Zen.
At the end of the day, honestly, any distro can pretty much be made into a gaming distro. Stuff like Bazzite, CachyOS, PikaOS are just going to make it “easier” for you because they have stuff installed and configured for gaming in mind by default. easier setup. But unless you’re constantly monitoring benchmarks/your FPS then performance increases, if any, aren’t going to be groundbreaking.
NixOS is fun once it clicks for you. It’s nice having a system you can run your way, configured your way, and there’s really no wrong way. I mean hell you can have your configuration in javascript if you REALLY wanted to. you can have everything in a single configuration file if you prefer that or you can have things in individual modules and managed via a flake.nix. You can have all your various configurations for your DEs/WMs/etc in the .config dir or you can put them all in a single file or you can have NixOS manage the individual configs for you for easy backup.
I like that it’s extremely easy to reproduce the system and back it up. my system is backed up to a private git repo and if I need to rebuild my system on another PC it’s just a matter of installing NixOS and then cloning my system repo and then I’m on the exact same setup as another machine. Also because of this and with nix-shells it makes dev work a breeze. same exact setup every time so the old argument of “well it works on my machine” doesn’t apply.
All that being said I’m not sure if I’d recommend it to others. It makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard. But it’s one of those distros where you’ll switch from it for like a week or two and then miss it and want to go back. but keep in mind those weekly/bi-weekly switches are common. sometimes you’ll just feel like you’re spending way too much time configuring your nixos system so you’ll switch to like Fedora or something so you don’t have to think about it. Or you get frustrated trying to get something to work on NixOS so you’ll switch to Arch where everything just works. but then you’ll get bored of those distros and go back to NixOS.
It’s a never ending cycle. Thankfully NixOS takes all of 10-15min to reinstall and back to the previous setup.
I’m still not sure if I would recommend it 😂
sounds like a NixOS user to me! I’ve been using NixOS as my daily driver for the past several months and I’m not sure if I would recommend it. It makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard. I love the fact that I can very easily pass kernel params or gpu settings via my flake. that’s nice. that’s easy. I don’t like finding some random FOSS project I want to try out and then trying to determine what dependencies I need, if I have them all in my nix-shell, etc.
But honestly once you figure it out and set up distrobox on it you’ll never need to distrohop again because you’ll have everything on one OS.
Fish is now my go to shell on any system. I once was a die hard zsh/oh-my-zsh user but man running that combo on NixOS was a slog. But Fish has all the stuff I had to use plugins for with zsh right out of the box. faster too.
it’s not helping, they’re actually being set up to take the fall so to speak by Meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
Meta is lobbying for all this crap and forcing it on everyone else (including Linux) with the only exception being…Meta. Google, Apple, etc will be in the same boat as Linux with Meta leveraging itself as the potential only “safe harbor”.
Linux has come a long way in the past few years. I only just started using it like maybe a year and half to 2 years ago and even since then I’ve noticed how much easier it’s become to use for an average user. Distros like Fedora KDE, Bazzite, CachyOS, etc have made the entire thing so much more user friendly. especially Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma which has also improved massively in the past year. Even the recent release of GNOME 50 is quite good and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t even like GNOME.
I don’t even remember 7 now. I know I had it I just don’t remember it. seems like after XP it was all downhill. I remember the shit that was Vista, but 7 and 8 I don’t remember at all. probably because they had such a short lifespan. 10 was absolute shit and 11 made me switch to Linux.
it’s not a bot problem. Reddit NEEDS the bots in order to survive. the Problem is that for its advertisers it needs to verify that the ads being served are actually being seeing by humans. that’s it.
nope very easy. nothings broken as of yet.
It’s essentially Arch with a custom kernel and repos. That being said the Kernel and repos are REALLY good. very optimized. I use the CachyOS Kernel on my NixOS system and I use the repos as well as the kernel on a regular Arch system. If you’re a gamer then you’ll notice a definite increase in performance. the devs/maintainers of CachyOS are also very transparent and provide constant updates.
Now you’ll probably ask “well why not just use CachyOS itself?” to which I’ll say they pack A LOT of stuff into the distro most of which I just don’t need. It can result in a long install time, much longer than most distros. But if you want a solid easy to install distro right out of the box you can’t go wrong. They also support just about every DE and WM under the sun. Seriously when you install it they provide you with options for everything AND also provide you with custom configs for everything so you can say use Niri or Hyprland or whatever right away without having to do much if any further configuration. They also have configurations for shells too. They also have their own version of Proton which is quite good, I also use that. They also provide you with the option to have snapper/timeshift set up for you right off the bat so you don’t have to worry about rolling back if something goes wrong.
They also have a fairly new updating feature which I love. Basically it’s a version of pacman where anyone can use it/figure it out. Like other distros like Fedora or Debian it’ll notify you when there are updates and will walk you through the process of updating, providing you with recent Arch News while you update, then clear out orphaned dependencies and clear your cache for you. it’s really a very good updater.
Overall it’s a very solid and easy to use Arch based distro and a fantastic introduction to Arch.
automatically attaching snaps to apt is pretty much the one reason why I’ll never use Ubuntu. and now I find out here that they put damn ads in the terminal for “Ubuntu Pro”? oh get fucked Canonical.
Friends don’t let Friends install Ubuntu.
ok. First and foremost this is fantastic. absolutely LOVE this and it works so much smoother than Krohnkite because it’s still using Kwin. it’s great. it’s perfect. this is EXACTLY what I wanted with my Plasma to the point now because of this script I’m ditching my tiling WMs and going back to KDE to daily drive. this was EXACTLY what I wanted. thank you! it’s great!
yes I use DOOM Emacs and will never use another editor. It’s my IDE, my Email Client, my document writer, my File Manager, and my Terminal. don’t need anything else.
Nano or as I like to call it “The Sudo Editor”
get good at code reviewing and, unfortunately, spend time on linkedin. subscribe to tech bros in your area and when they start posting their usual slop and AI bullshit make comments calling them out. Managers and owners of other companies, especially startups, will see this and contact you for help. Because all these startups and small tech companies are ALL following the tech bros in linkedin and when they read your comments calling said tech bro an idiot, why whatever their pushing won’t work and how it’s going to hurt businesses in the long run they’ll want to get in touch with you to fix/tell them what they’ve done wrong to avoid the stuff you were calling tech bro out on.
I mean it’s so damn simple. None of these companies are going to advertise or actively look for help/a position to fix their stuff because they’re either embarrassed they fucked up or they don’t want their investors finding out they fucked up. So they call in me, the cleaner, like Harvey Keitel from Pulp Fiction.
I was a freelance/contract dev that over a year ago transitioned to a sort of code review for AI/LLMs type deal with companies. I make more money doing this than dev work. Essentially I review the slop that their vibe coders churn out and tell them how it’s not going to work and everything that’s wrong with it and then 9 times out of 10 suggest a complete rebuild without utilizing AI.
that’s it. that’s all I’m doing now. I have so much more free time and I’m making way more than I was previously. Majority of my new clients come from linkedin via tech bro posts.
This really shouldn’t be recent news to anyone. it’s been like this since day one of vibe coding. It’s all exploitable, none of it scales, and the “vibe coders” have zero clue how any of it works when it comes out the other end of the AI. none of them. and anyone that tells you otherwise is lying.
It’s not a “growing blind spot” it’s a blind spot that has always been there. And it happens with all companies even large ones like Amazon. look what happened with the AWS outages. hell you can even go on youtube and watch people who work at Amazon and you’ll quickly realize these kids have no idea what the hell they’re doing. I’ve followed one guy for the past year who documents his on calls with Amazon and this kid hasn’t learned a single thing. He doesn’t know what he’s doing but will proudly tout how Amazon “helps” those that are laid off. The kid still gets tickets at 1am and has no clue how to fix the stuff and just hands it off to another team in the morning. he’s been doing this for over a year!
So of course this stuff is going to go unchecked because the ones who are supposed to monitor it don’t know what they’re doing.
you can benchmark like CachyOS, PikaOS, and like Fedora or something and the results are pretty much going to be the same. you’ll see an ever so slight FPS increase on PikaOS but it’s so marginal you’d be hard pressed to notice. If a 4fps increase is important to you then sure, have at it. but for most it doesn’t really matter.
That being said PorteuX does sort of interest me as it’s based on Slackware and is something I want to try out.