Lazygit and magit

It’s not just a reskin, the MX tools are really useful for beginners and non-technical people.

Currently installed using Ansible, because that’s more sensible than Bash for this imo.

What do you mean? It’s just a few lines to symlink everything for me.

I mean it’s a language specifically designed to be easy and quick to learn. Even if you don’t work with primarily, you’ll find it useful for stuff like cli programs, advanced scripts(instead of python), small services, etc.

It was either failing before grub or wasn’t in the list, I can’t remember now but I know rollbacks were not a possibility. If I remember correctly I had to reboot once after the install, then update, and then reboot once again to have the updated system boot.

This issue can happen with any distro, though rare.

I’ve used Linux for about 15 years, and that was the only time a fresh install crapped out on me.

Fedora is great, but it’s also the only distro I’ve had fail to boot after a fresh install and update.

Mint for sure. The slower release cycle is definitely better for nontechnical people, but show them how to install flatpaks from the app store.

Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded?

It seems they’re not changing the default configs, but instead adding an additional config that’s actually usable straight from the box. example video

/facepalm moment for not thinking of that at the time

But it’s lacking organisation and modularity. For example let’s say you need programming packages on one device, gaming ones on another, and general ones on both. It’s pretty easy to set it up with hm, and you can disable specific modules when you don’t need them (for example you rarely need to use a certain language and supporting packages).

It’s pretty fast, especially if you don’t get into flakes right away. You basically just install nix with a one liner -> install home-manager through nix -> start adding packages to list.

Here’s a comment I made when I was starting out with basic instructions. Do note I’m now using this command for updates instead (updates hm, package definitions, and the packages themselves)

cd ~/dotfiles/nix/ && nix flake update && nix-channel --update && home-manager switch --flake ~/dotfiles/nix/

For me the config management aspect of home-manager is mostly useless. It takes a lot more work to set it up, looks far uglier, and you need to maintain it because parameters change over time. Saving dotfiles in a repo, and symlinking them on install is simply easier.

The only two scenarios where it’s actually useful is when you have slightly different configs for different devices, and when the program doesn’t support dotfiles. A pretty cool example I’ve seen for the second one is managing Firefox customisations (settings, plugins, additional CSS), but I’m only disabling horizontal tabs so it’s not worth it for me.

And just update it with every package install and uninstall, on every device, forever.

Sure, but then you need to maintain it. I don’t know about you, but I never had the discipline to update it with every package install and uninstall. It’s especially annoying when you have multiple devices.

Declarative package management doesn’t have that issue since you’re managing the packages by editing the list.

Besides that, the home-manager approach works on any distro (and os?), you get bleeding edge packages, you get a built in rollback system, and you can handle configs as well (but I mainly just symlink them anyways).

For me that’s the main benefit of using home-manager on nixos and other distros. You basically just make a list of packages, and install/update them through home-manager.

You don’t see anything wrong with putting tools to make it more accessible for new users and nontechnical people behind a subscription?

And OP gets very mad when you call out this premium dotfile subscription bs, and proceeds to delete threads.

Xfce is nice, but it’s more windows xp than Mac

“Quitting your job to make games” is just like quitting your job to write your novel

I think it’s actually worse since you can’t directly make money from the game while making it. You can stream for example, but it requires a completely different skillset.

Compare that to, for example, writers releasing chapters on royal road, getting some funding through patreon while writing (in return for advanced chapters), and quitting their jobs when the book sales pick up. Like yeah it’s still really hard to make good money, but the possibility of slowly progressing into full time writing is why people can try to do it.

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Also, it doesn’t change the fact you’re depending on some random person’s repo that is not moderated in any way.

I didn’t like using AUR when I ran arch, let alone some random repo with absolutely no oversight.

Also, I can unterstand if companies are hating it which just want to have a free ride and monetize efforts of other people. But for users, there are many many other options and distributions available. Why not chose one that matches your need better?

Why get mad about people comparing nix and guix, in a thread comparing nix and guix? Pointing out legitimate disadvantages is not hating. Maybe get off the internet for a bit and touch grass.

It has top-priority goals like reproducibility, capability to inspect and verify all source code, and providing a fully free system that is not compatible with providing nonfree binary blobs.

So does nix, nobody is forcing you to opt-in into non-free packages. And guix most certainly is compatible with non-free blobs, as that’s how most people are using it. The only difference is that nix is supporting non-free packages instead of banning even talking about them.