David

Why is KDE going to sleep when there is disk i/o? And why is a partition expansion taking over 10 minutes?

Either way, that sucks. Hope you can recover everything.

He's the CEO of an AI start up it looks like. Of course he needs to downplay Deepseek, how else is he going to get that sweet VC money?

If you do, try to keep the linux boot files on a separate drive than your windows installation, because windows has been known to nuke them during updates.

Being able to index arrays with strings in Javascript is truly cursed behavior

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Creepy AF and Harmful Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification. Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, e...

When confronted with age estimation face scans, many people will refrain from accessing restricted websites, even if they have a legal right to use them. Government should restrain this hazardous technology, not normalize it via age verification mandates.

I'm curious, who is the target audience or use case? Because DNS records aren't something you need to mess with often, and if you *are* messing with it often then you'll probably have it automated via established APIs.

Either way, grats on public beta release

I think many normies that consider themselves techsavvy have built their own computers, since that's pretty common, which would mean they've installed an OS via USB.

But yeah there's a point to be made there.

Sadly sometimes part of the extra work that needs to be done is reviewing PRs and merging them.

As someone who tries to contribute, it gets tiring having your PR sit in limbo and having to constantly rebase it to keep it up to date with upstream, until it's not even worth keeping updated anymore 😒

Yes, piggy-backing off of you--

Do NOT use NixOS as your first distro. Nothing will make sense and you will regret it.

But to answer OP's question, it depends on what games. For me *personally*, it's been perfect. Every game I've wanted to run Proton can. You can prob do some looking up tho

There's a ./venv/bin/activate.fish that you're supposed to use from fish.

Barring that, you could have just entered a bash shell, activated it, and then activate a fish shell afterwards.

Needing an extra package to modify the generated script is pretty sus

Have you tried using X11 forwarding with ssh?

My whole Linux experience at the time was a few months on Mint.

The next few months were fun, playing catch up on the entirety of everything linux server related...

High-key thankful for that, though. Wouldn't have the skill set that I have today otherwise.

It's easy

> Be part of small, volunteer non-profit group
> A sysAdm decides to join
> He sets up a bunch of fancy infra
> Just decides to dip ~1 year later
> Be the only person who knows how to ssh

My "training" was basically a 30min discord call and a link to nix pills LMAO

Of course, I'm sure some people use it just to feel unique/elite/different, but that doesn't take away from its true merits.

It can't be justified for everyone though. I'd only recommend Nix(OS) to someone who either
1) Has the time+want+will to learn
or
2) Has a use case for it (I.e. servers)

I didn't choose NixOS as much as it chose me. I got dropped into managing a NixOS server as a greenhorn and just had to learn. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome, but I'm daily driving it now.

Anyways, I think nixos is an exception, because it is truly different than other distros

Seeing people do Advent of Code with assembly is giving me whiplash

That's nothing, try getting used to deleting a word back with Ctrl+W and then using any program with tabs.

I've managed to train myself to start catching it before I do it, but it still slips sometimes.

It's significantly worse on web terminals 😅

I'm pretty sure the universe will die before I switch off NixOS. There's 0 incentive to switch off. Gone are the days of broken changes and cluttered systems.

I use Hyprland for my desktop.

If you're brand new, I'd recc Pop OS because it is a little less hands on than Endeavor.

It'll also be a more stable experience. I'd also recommend Linux mint as something even more newb-friendly.

Finally, best advice is to not immediately commit and just try each of them out for a little bit

FYI that account is literally AI posts and responses

FYI that account is literally AI posts and responses

You sure you don't have a cryptominer infection? 😂

It's not an excuse, it's the reality. Newer software requires more hardware resources.

Do you think it's planned obsolescence that a Pentium III with 256MB of RAM wouldn't be able to run modern OSes and games (well)?

PO would be more like your CPU dying on its own for no reason after some years.

Some of those I can get behind, it can look nice.

But the telltale sign for me of someone who doesn't use their system "seriously" (not that there's anything wrong with that), is an overly transparent terminal with a busy background 😆

Yo, how's your success with cross-compiling to ARM from x64? Because doing rebuilds on a Pi take forever, and when I try to cross compile on my desktop, it doesn't seem like it uses the cache, which means it's worst now that I have to compile everything from scratch 🤔

Yeah, I think it comes with the fact that Nix is unique and hard to learn, and many people can recount what it was like to be new.

With that said, people are people and I dont think there's any community that's free from bad personalities, unfortunately.

Your experience does suck, but I don't think it's representative of the topic here.

Namely, if you're running Arch, you know things can and will break. The user agency here is the agency to install bleeding edge packages, and stability is the cost.

But yeah, closed-minded elitists don't help 👎

Do you think it's fair to say that your usage and experience is likely different than others? Because it seems like the issues being brought up (including other replies) are trivial/non-existent to you, but are clearly causing a lot of friction for others 🤣

And if you're talking about how packages change, then that's partly not as much as a Linux problem than a application developer problem (who happens to be on Linux and thus affecting the platform's overall quality, but again that's not inherent to the OS itself)

I mean I think we're I agreement. Linux gives you a lot of user agency, so people don't have issue with that. "Everything in constant flux" is a bit vague, but I'm guessing you're talking about distro changes, but that's distro dependent. Some are very consistent, like Linux mint.