And in the center of the graph you can find Fedora.
Far from perfect but the exact middle ground
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NixOS manages to be all of these at once except the manual dependency management
NixOS is indirect manual dependency management.
And to cover complexity, I just let an LLM do most of the work - it knows more about NixLang than me anyway (though I can read it).
A boring OS is a healthy OS.
I was about to say! Who the hell thinks their computer being reliable is boring!?
People who like fixing things.
I am one of those people, but I'm still annoyed when my tools don't work right. I hate having to fix something, only to find out that my tool I need for that also needs repairs. I use my computer's primarily as tools, so I almost always am at least a little annoyed when my computer demands attention all of a sudden.
Maybe there are others that are hobbyists. I guess if you're a computer tinkerer primarily, troubleshooting that crap can be like cultivating a zen garden, but it is the opposite for me.
I totally understand. Thatβs why I have a working Mac and a sometimes working Linux machine.
@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.
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.
Iβm sure thereβs a window manager you havenβt explored yet.
Literally me.
Which one?
Both
Don't show this image to my girlfriend
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.
Oh please. Be real. Are you sure there's nothing in your flake to refactor or modularize? :)
Sure is, but do I wanna do it? π€
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"Manual configuration is exhausting" my brother in christ that's the whole fun of having a fucking computer
I'll never understand why some people have the need to constantly fiddle with their OS install. But, different strokes for different folks.
Fiddling is how you find out whatβs possible and what you like.
Look at Mr. "I have something better to do than build compilation queues 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.
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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My Arch install has had no issues upgrading for years, even with the big KDE updates
Do people really be using Slackware these days? I'm on Bazzite atm and it's cool but a bit different esp with the ostree stuff.
Curious what the use case is for Slackware nowadays
A few thousand people in the world, yes.
It combines the stability of Debian with the simplicity of Arch, and turns both up to 11.
Main selling point is that it never does anything unexpected.
You set it up and then it works the way you're used to, literally for decades.
Feeling superior to Gentoo and Arch users.
I see the main use case for Slackware, if youβre a Linux graybeard, who has used it for 20 years.
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.
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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!
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"Step-Operating-Sytem what are you doing!?"
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. 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
But have you tried Gentoo?
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
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