it’s a way of doing things with programs that you don’t have to think about. moving your hand to the mouse, clicking or double clicking the window, dragging it to the appropriate corner and waiting for snapping to toggle are all too slow compared to a keyboard shortcut to open and tile left, right, bottom, or stacked in i3.

this mouse movement is even ambiguous on mac os which requires external apps to make the experience marginally above suck.

The main thing is you want to commit these actions to muscle memory to free up your conscious effort on whatever it is you are trying to focus on.

so i guess everybody is doing if via flakes now but can’t we just continue with the configuration.nix and home.nix split?

the metric that makes sense for that qualifier i guess is customizability. But one can argue its straightforward control of the packages that is clearly different and unique about it

I tried nixos. But alas, I don’t have the time to unlearn traditional Linux management and get into the groove that makes it click for others. I don’t run a homelab, my dev environment is my company’s macbook that connects to development rhel servers through ssh or vscode. I run popOs for what little time i have to tinker in my free time.

I tried tinkering with NixOS in a VM on apple silicon. The experience of finding what image to download for Apple Silicon and installing the OS was straightforward and i did manage to start getting the hang of it. But very quickly realized you start out maintaining packages through the system config file, invest some time, discover home-manager, and then later discover flakes. Then I also discovered none of the tools like neovim, python work like they do on imperative distros.

At least with python the right way to manage is to forget using pip or uv in the traditional manner and simply use the nix-shell feature per directory which is actually the most frictionless way to do that in my experience.

I can see how nix and nixos are godsend for DevOps, server folks who need reproducible builds, love configuration as code that compilss the same way every time and anywhere, and hate non-deterministic behavior.

But yes. The author is right. I too felt like the OS needs your time until you set it up just right for your needs. Daily driving it is not a install and go affair unless you already have a repo of configs built up.

And if you’re like me and anxious about having everything organized “just right” it will be a nightmare of ignorance until you find the best practices which certainly takes a lot more time and kindness on yourself than you might allow or actually possess.

not this argument again.

how the fuck do you know she won’t be a motorcycle? Do you need a motor thats not your heart? Why doesn’t she become a tire demon or a stool with wheels for sests?

The letter ~ (tilde) is relative to the current user. When you use sudo, you become root. So ~ points to /root. Whereas if you are not using sudo then ~ points to /home/yourname

I was waiting for the itch to get worse so i can scratch it off… but you have convinced me enough to give it a go. Here’s hoping i don’t create an abomination!

No I am in the same camp. I hate complexity. There’s too many crumbs of utilities to reassemble into the entire loaf of functionality. Hence I haven’t tried installing arch in a long while (I use endeavorOS as my daily) and I haven’t tried running nix. The need has not arisen yet.

Includes Gnome

LOL, LMAO even.

(PS. since you said please. But I think it’s cool. (I guess? I am too much of a grandpa to care so: That’s lovely, my dear))

the downvotes are only because you seem to think shouting out that YOU don’t want a feature in a thread where everybody else wants it is not hypocritical

same options to supertuxkart andvkcube test don’t work on these apps?

With firefox maybe you need to change something in “about:config” and restart?

Not the OC, but this makes it worse. Whats funny here?

Unfortunately they’re too fargone. You should save your time and energy.

Is this a verification can test?