Yeah, no. Windows is the easy starter but the more you get experience, the more you fight the system.
Or you go the Linux approach and set your tooling up from start via third-parties from Chocolatey/Scoop.Guess the red line represents this.
There's been a couple forks but that's not all. They are made votes to massively restructure their governance system. Things are looking up on the main nixos branch!
I don't think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.
I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it's cheap to pick up...yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I'll ever be ready for that, haha.
Well i do need to do a quick ol distro hop cos currently on manjaro and well im not particularly happy with it. I like debian headless on mer server so might jump to sonthing based on that, this graph isnt making nix look like a good choice tho pls enlighten me to the benefits
manjaro was terrible when I used it (several years ago), imo it is fundamentally broken. I would suggest trying a smoother arch install. I always recommend endeavoros because I had an effortless experience with it.
Arch from scratch installed fine for me and ran great. EndevourOS threw errors during install and the desktop was littered with random popup errors...tried it twice a few years apart and Endevour was a poor experience with a janky looking UI
If you don't already know the benefits it's unlikely it solves a problem you have.
Even among its users many are using it because it's cool rather than because they actually need it.
It's a declarative system, meaning you can describe how it should be setup (using a magic strings you have to look up online) and then it "sets up itself" according to the description.
It's normally something you'd use for mass and/or repetitive deployments.
It's usefulness for a single system is debatable, considering you can achieve very close to 100% of "reproducibility" anyway by copying /home and /etc and fetching a copy of the package list.
Where the prescriptive approach is supposed to help is when you attempt to reproduce the system a long time later, after things like config files and packages have changed. But it doesn't help with /home, it hasn't been tested over long intervals, and in fact nobody guarantees long term compatibility for Nix state.
Was thinking same. I always think windows is the easiest to get used from beginning, but that could be cause windows was the first operating system i was dealing with. Playing with the amiga 3000 could be the start, but there i was only 5
Windows XP wasn't exactly intuitive to me and now only I know what my keybinds for Hyprland are so um maybe you're right. Honestly switching to Ubuntu made things a lot easier for me than they were on windows because it was easier to change settings and similar just by using terminal commands rather than a weird gui or not at all.
Does this graph mean what it is supposed to mean for the joke to work? The black line means I learn much quicker with less time investment, i.e. it is easier than all the others.
That is a common misunderstanding of how learning curves work. A steep learning curve means your skill increases more rapidly with the invested time. That means the subject is easier or more intuitive.
'If you change the axis then it makes sense' is not a great argument 🙂 but it does not matter, it is just a joke after all, so let's not argue. Have a nice day y'all!
You nearly had it. The black line starts higher at "gaining skill" so it requires more skill to start learning but after short time you are gaining much more skill in the same time.
After using Silverblue for some time I tried to use Arch again, and pacman had failed at installation process. A easy fix for that is to be like: 1. Get list of all the installed packages; 2. Install all these packages again with --force. But after using immutables the situation is just meh.
And also now I dislike package managers which require to be used with sudo, and cannot ask for permissions with polkit.
It's been just over a month using Fedora silverblue (Ublue ) for me and the experience has been pretty good.
What I do is just setup a distrobox container with the arch image and install software using paru from AUR. So far this workflow has been working really well. for me.
Also if you decide to use any Ublue spin, you'll also get homebrew pre-installed. So that can also be considered as an alternative option to AUR.
Unless I'm missing something, Plasma is the KDE desktop, there isn't a separate desktop environment just called KDE... In fact, it's full name is KDE Plasma, it's just frequently shortened to either KDE or Plasma
Yes, just like with many distros you can add external repositories. Nonguix is a repository with non-free software like the linux kernel and binary firmware
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