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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can you imagine taking someone from MacOS and giving them NixOS?

user: Great, June 2026, Upgrade time! What do I click on?

NixFriend: Umm, sorry you're going to need to open your terminal and change your nix-channels to https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.06 and you're going to need to do it under sudo.

user: umm, ok, now i'm upgraded?

NixFriend: no, not quite, you need nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

user: ohh jeeze, ok. umm, i got an error, a couple hundred lines it's kind of vague about a bunch of functions failing

NixFriend: Go back up 70-80 lines and see if it calls out a certain package being a problem, just ignore all the messages about variables not being set.

user: ohh wow, yeah, ok, something about pinentry and specifying ncurses and some messages about name deprecation

NixFriend: ohh yeah ok, that's pretty easy, go edit these text files, change all the names if mentions and either remove pinentry or just make or leave in pinentry-ncurses

user: Ohh ok; Now it's complaing that /boot is full

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How'd your 25.11 channel migration go, fellow Nix-enjoyer?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Second-best ever. 25.05 was seamless.

I only needed to screw with mesa, pinentry, vim-full, and unpin my kernel for v4l which is now fixed in OBS

I'm preparing to break out my configurations so that all my machines can share parts of them and maybe see if I can get my home .confgs a little more managed under home manager.

How was yours?

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, thank you for this comment! I was pondering maybe setting up a trial for NixOS at work, but now I see we just don't have the manpower to handle that.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nope. I was thinking of doing an immutable server with it because that would be neat AF.

But the updates are deprecated way too soon. You really need to take the latest milestones really close to when they happen.

I run it myself at work for a couple of years now, but I wouldn't want to support the userland on it, even the technically competent ones.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is real sad news. I was hoping it would allow for a "Intune-like" experience for people, where they'd just download the configs dynamically as needed.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

give em time, given they're not young by any standard, but they are starting to gain traction which should help bring about advances.

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol yeah Nix is definitely not for everyone, but an insane flexible tool when you know how to use it.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

My favorite part is syncing one file and my home folder and moving from one computer to another seamlessly.

I've moved hardware three times and always been right back in service.

[–] MuckyWaffles@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I tried NixOS for a solid month, didn't click for me, so now I'm on gentoo. I'll have to try it again someday.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't worry. I tried it for about 2 years and didn't quite get the hang of it. Back on Arch now. NixOS really has a steep learning curve and not nearly enough documentation.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I absolutely adore doing shell.nix environments and flakes. I basically don't have anything installed that I don't need on a daily basis. I use syncthing to keep a folder full of shell environments backed up.

cd /nixShells/video nix-shell

BOOM, I have yt-dlp, ffmpeg-full, mpv, timg, kdenlive, python 3.12 with a bunch of subrip and AI subtitle generators. I do what is needed and exit and it's all gone.

I keep one for wine, one for mp3, one for parsec, one for video

Then I have flakes for real development work.

admittedly, it's a lot :)

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

ah yes the TempleOS zealots are prostyltizing again

[–] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Hah too bad I'm using GNU Hurd

[–] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 90 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How about stop using computers in general

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Stop using CPUs

Here's how to configure an FPGA for your workflow

[–] bbboi@feddit.uk 0 points 10 hours ago

Increase in efficiently ++

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[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Stop using computers! Learn here how to go outside"

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

STOP USING EYES

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[–] mech@feddit.org 127 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Next: Stop using computers

[–] invictvs@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

"How to build a difference engine at home (2026 edition) "

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[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Stop... Just Stop...

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

The next video is going to be called stop existing.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

unironically this shit is so prevalent in the programming community that I can't help to laugh and shrug it off

remember: YouTubers are just that, most of them don't even work with the tech they gloat about

and for devlopment tools/frameworks/dependencies the mantra is: boring tech works, just remember that it needs to be currently supported/developed

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

I think it's just clickbait/being hyperbolic. I imagine the videos themselves are just normal tutorials or intros to the topic.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

year of the BSD desktop

[–] MuckyWaffles@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never heard of mangowc, and I'm scared of falling down another rabbit hole after cycling through so many window managers just to end up with sway again. I will not relapse.

[–] JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

Like Hyprland AND want to try Niri at the same time? BOOM MangoWC. Been using it for months now. Don't ever see myself going back to Hyprland. Completely bypassed the Niri hype too. It has tiling and scrolling modes. You can toggle between them. Just as smooth as Hyprland without all the bloat. Plus whenever someone says something about some window manger or DE you can now respond, 'no thank you, I'll have the Mango.'

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[–] r8KNzcU8TzCroexsE2xbWC@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see it goes full circle, FreeBSD from MacOS (which has a lot of BSD code)

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

I was gonna say that’s a long walk to get back to a BSD based system lol

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 40 points 2 days ago

"2027 edition"

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not loving canonical, I hate snap with a passion, systemd.... Meh, mixed bag

But in general, I'm very happy with Kubuntu, it's been my main os forost of the 25+ years that I've used a Linux desktop. It's very easy to use and has mostly been very reliable, especially the server variant. KDE desktop always has been awesome

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[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

all their videos are like that, they seem pretty cool and they made their own window manager.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 34 points 2 days ago

Someone is doing a speedrun, I see.

[–] beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is this the first time I hear about mangoWC?

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago

my WC smells more like lemon, I guess it just depends on what you clean it with

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've got a host running FreeBSD, I use it for pfsense. It's probably my most reliable machine. Limited use case but would recommend.

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