NostraDavid

Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

* Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

It’s fine for newbies.

As someone who used it when he was a newbie: Gnome is fucking awful to learn - it’s so bloody alien, it’s not even funny.

I’m now using a distro with KDE and it feels just right.

You’re obviously not using NixOS. I clearly don’t even need to try to use such a subpar stateful system such as Arch, you absolute pleb.

Am I out-jerking you already?

I use NixOS, obviously.

Where is Nix? Oh right, he’s in space, chilling.

If you’re a programmer: NixOS.

Define your OS config, which programs to install, and dotfiles in one repo. Install a fresh OS, pull in the repo (nix-shell -p git, because NixOS doesn’t come with git >_> ) and run the command to install the whole thing (sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#wodan for me. wodan is just the name of a config - I have multiple all combines into one repo, so I can share configuration between machines).

Took me 17 minutes to set up my laptop exactly the same as my Desktop. Same configuration, applications, and OS settings. It’s so fucking nice.

With Windows, that used to take 2 days to download and install everything manually.

Only downside: You’ll need to learn Nix-the-language, nix-the-os, and nix-the-terminal-program, which took about a month of deeply digging into the Vimjoyer and LibrePhoenix channels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr1TiKaL = woo lets go baby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmongold = rat alarm clock

There are pictures. Not of the rat.

A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.

What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?

Older generations bitch about “damn kids these days don’t respect their elders” ever since at least Socrates.

The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.

This is the way.

You’re not special.

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What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

I now have a stack of Thinkpads laying around. Right next to my two RPis 😂

If your ISP is blocking this website, set a DNS in windows to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare), 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 (Google), 9.9.9.9 (Quad9), https://www.dns0.eu/, or DNS4EU.

Yes, blocking certain sites is done in the Netherlands, due to Stichting BREIN using/abusing our legal system. Nobody likes them, but it is what it is.

PS: I’m using rargb, since it hasn’t been blocked (yet - BREIN has to sue per website being blocked).

Double-bang repeats the previous command. Great if you forget sudo.

$ rm -rf <folder>
permission denied
$ sudo !!

No need for ~ - just cd works as well.

The first two options (autocd and cdspell) have been a lifesaver in fixing my frustrations with the default bash settings (and even lets me stick with bash, instead of feeling I should move to zsh or any other shell.

I can just type a foldername, tabcomplete it and press enter to go there. It’s great.

# == shopts ==
# https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html
shopt -s autocd         # cd into folder without cd, so 'dotfiles' will cd into the folder
shopt -s cdspell        # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s direxpand      # expand a partial dir name
shopt -s checkjobs      # stop shell from exit when there's jobs running
shopt -s dirspell       # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s expand_aliases # aliases are expanded
shopt -s histappend     # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histreedit     # lets your re-edit old executed command
shopt -s histverify     # I'm confused.
shopt -s hostcomplete   # performs completion when a word contains an '@'
shopt -s cmdhist        # save multiple-line command in single history entry
shopt -u lithist        # multi-lines are saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolons; explictly unset
shopt -s checkwinsize # update LINES and COLUMNS to fit output

What if… WSL is a gateway drug to Arch?

Don’t do drugs, kids!

Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power

I think that sounds more like Cygwin.

I would argue that you’d need Publically Traded Companies, and thus Stocks, and thus a Stock Market, and also Stock Exchanges to be able to form a Capitalism.

Of course, “private ownership of the means of production” is an important aspect as well.

Yeah, they ripped that concept straight out of Final Fantasy XIV’s playbook

TBF, Blizzard is at their best when they’re stealing shit from others.

There’s Solocraft private server for vanilla - lets you run a team of bots so you can do dungeons, on your own.