A boring OS is a healthy OS.
I was about to say! Who the hell thinks their computer being reliable is boring!?
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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If you put a ! before the link it’ll embed the image (you may need to leave the [] blank, I’m not sure)
I know. I specifically chose not to.
e: lol don’t downvote them! People come to the meme community with no sense of humor, smhing my head.
I appreciate you!
That reminds me, anyone know if I can have the images/gifs in comments be collapsed as default?
The default web interface doesn’t do it and the images are not tagged in a way that you could easily fix it with CSS. You could possibly do it with a greasemonkey script (see your local LLM).
Haha, you overestimate me, I’m struggling with trying to change the colors in CSS, trying to hide images or whatnot would be like asking a monkey to change the timing belt of a car engine.
The old.lemmy.world frontend has the option to “collapse inline media” in the settings, but it isn’t available on the default one.
I figured out the “collapse inline media” thing about 2 months ago… after almost 2 decades of reddit use… about 3 weeks before I deleted my account…
Oh well, at least I got to enjoy it for a wee bit there
I’ll never understand why some people have the need to constantly fiddle with their OS install. But, different strokes for different folks.
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.
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Nix
No
Yes
Come to the dark side, we’ve got new Plasma, and exhausting manual configuration
nix
I adore the idea of nix. I fucking hate the syntax with a passion.
oh use the
.packagesbut only for this else use a flake and if you want dot files there is this other completely different thing with home manager but if you want this extra config customization or a custom system script then you need to make a derrivatio…its so damn exhausting.
I just want a list of packages.
That I can put in modules.
And turn them on and off based on the computer I’m on.
And if they are on they should use these dots.
And not look like a spaghetti bowl made of curly braces sourced from json derulos left buttock.
And the system should also have some additional sbctl hooks because we still have not figured out that dracut generated initramfs files don’t get purged from the database so I have to have a custom hook to not get error messages every time I
paruahahahAAHAHA…anyway dcli exists and is a fine middle ground.
The biggest thing that helped me with nix is to realize the syntax is shit because the language is veryyyy different. Entirely expression based, nearly pure functional programing. Everything is a set.
Once I understood that it was much simpler, and worth the time. I never worry about system configuration anymore it just works, and it’ll keep working unless I choose to change something in my system flake
NixOS manages to be all of these at once except the manual dependency management
Tune Arch ONCE. Sets you for life
and also back up in case a borked package(s) appears in an update
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In this economy? Really, GreenBeanMachine?
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!
Can you cherry pick the patch?
Best I can do is pepper brush it.
Sid for life!
What’s the one on the left?
Either way, boring is good.
Bazzite iirc
Bazzite. An immutable[1] distro pre-configured for gaming.
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The root system is one image and can’t be altered.
Software is installed from a GUI software center via flatpak.
A bit like Android.Bazzite iirc
NixOS – now I’ve finally found the endgame distro!
several days later CachyOS is actually much simpler.
NixOS’ learning curve is brutal.
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.
I love that Slackware still exists, and try every new release.
It works as a daily driver and after initial setup is less of a hassle than people think, but I also can’t really find any good reason to use it over more modern distros.Valid. I really like that the whole system is held up with a bunch of bash scripts. Which is not a plus for a lot of people.
I came up on Slackware, used it exclusively from like ‘96 - 08’. Have not touched it since. I have fond memories of debugging XFree86.conf and compiling half of what I installed from source. 🤣 This is a wild slack themed day- I just ran into a Bob Dobbs picture in the wild. 😂
A wild Bob is calling you 🤣 Tbh I’ve not debugged a config like that in so long, since like 10 and I was a wee lad. Most things just work now. I’ve also been using Wayland and pipewire.
Installed gentoo on my desktop, never looked back
And once you do this there’s distcc for the laptops
Just use Fedora. It just works.
That’s literally Bazzite in this chart
I meant Fedora Workstation.
But even so, “it just works” = “this is boring!”
This is why you need to have 2 computers. One to run a boring distro that just works. And the other one for installing distros that you can ride for fun as it goes down in flames.
The best of both worlds.
“Manual configuration is exhausting” my brother in christ that’s the whole fun of having a fucking computer
The answer: Fedora
You’re welcome.
But I don’t want to use American software 🤷
Opensuse is also great: Like Fedora its rpm-based and backed by a corpo and with Tumbleweed you’ll get a nice rolling release experience without worries that it’s gonna bork itself
But the lizard looks so unserious, my family thinks it’s untrustworthy 🤷
(I went with Debian in the end and we love it)
Fedora is the best. My friend who recently started using Linux persuades me to install NixOS (which I’ve already tried 2 years ago), but I really can’t leave Fedora. Everything just works and are up to date.
Bazzite is already pictured, and OP already complains that it’s too boring!
