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phantomwise

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  • Respect

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  • Please don't, we're cooked in France too. Just a bit more slowly.

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    Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future?

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  • My first thought when seeing the pic was "Is it AI?". I need a vacation. From life.

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    Ring bell

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  • To be fair, it was either that or letting pronouns win.

  • Important question

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  • HOW DARE YOU, onion rings are awesome

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Wow I had no idea you could do that, I'll try it thanks ! °o°

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I think I might have been misusing the term "outdated", the packages are a few versions behind but they do work. I haven't run into packages that didn't work except because of path issues (fixed by using steam-run).

  • Jupiter

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  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Wait how does Nix Unstable have a better score than the AUR? With four times less maintainers? That's really impressive, especially considering how much more simple Arch packages are to make.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Yes it's a headache if you don't have a clue what you're doing and suck at coding like me, but the good parts might make the headache worth it depending on what you want of your distro. A week ago I couldn't wait to get a new laptop to reinstall Arch, but now I'm actually wondering if I should keep trying Nix... OH GOD HAVE I CAUGHT THE NIX BRAIN CANCER? 😭

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Oh cool that's good to know!

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • There's one evil genius responsible for both JSON and JavaScript? °o°

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Succinctly : "OH GOD MY EEEEEYES"

    I'm not a fan of nested parenthesis... but aside from that I don't know much about the language, is it more convenient? Does it also suffer from the error messages from hell problem?

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  • Was the task "Finish writing to do list" ?

  • According to Pornhub data (yes seriously!) Linux market share in 2024 increased more than 40% relative to 5.1% of all users.

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  • That link is amazing... they even have maps 😂 !

  • UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera (2025-07-01)

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  • me_irl

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  • The rest of the time when I'm supposed to be productive.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I'm sure it'll get better once I'm more used to it, just venting a bit. Sorry for the rant

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Yes emoji use is proportional to the decrease in my sanity after those two weeks

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I've been stuck on Nix for two weeks because I thought it would be a good idea to put a distro I had never used but that wouldn't break on my backup laptop in case my main one ever broke. I just couldn't force myself to install debian, not that I have anything against debian, it's just... kinda boring, while Nix seemed very interesting. IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME I SWEAR.

    Guess what happened... I broke Arch. Then I reinstalled and the next day the laptop broke. Then the next day I tried to get my data back and the hard drive broke. So, backup laptop with Nix for two weeks...

    • I really really really like the declarative stuff. Installing packages through config files is so nice I'll never lose track of what I've installed ever again 🥰 🥰 🥰 I was already using a git repo for all my config files + GNU Stow to symlink everything to its proper place, so adding the .nix configs to that setup was very easy.
    • Having a clean system on rebuild is great. No more clutter left everywhere that I don't know about, no more half broken stuff left lying around.

    But...

    • It's not Arch. Not Nix's fault, but I kept hearing that it would be "like Arch but declarative"... and it's really not 😑 Everything seems over-complicated vs as simple as possible.
    • I absolutely hate the language.
    • What's with those error messages from hell???
    • And speaking of hell, every language that can't just use indentations like YAML instead of cluttering the code with {} and [] and () should have been relegated to the darkest pit of hell 20 years ago. But points to Nix for being less awful than JSON (the comma on every line but not the last thingy make me want to build a time machine to go murder the grandparents of whoever thought it was a good idea)
    • Packages are out of date even in the unstable branch (I know it's unfair since it's not trying to be a rolling release... but... but...)
    • Where are the source packages? Is that an Arch only thing? I liked having packages that automatically use the latest git commit without needing to manually install from source and manually reinstall each time I want an update like a medieval peasant... 😭
    • Nix packages are weird. Even someone who's terrible at coding like me can read Arch PKGBUILDS... I miss you Arch 😢
    • Apps not working because of paths that don't exist on Nix... what do you mean I need to patch the package myself? 😭 But at least there's steam-run, great preserver of what's left of my sanity.
    • Can't wrap my head around installing some stuff like VSCode extensions (the advice I got was "don't bother just do it imperatively...) (Edit: Finally figured it out!!!)
    • Wiki is often sparse on info and not very helpful if you don't already know what you are doing (and I clearly don't 😅)
    • Hidden configs. Some stuff works on its own like pipewire even though I haven't installed or configured it (I went with a minimal install that just gave me a tty then build from there, no DE), and how it's already configured is not in the default config files. It's very confusing not knowing why some stuff works and how it's configured by default.

    But it's kinda growing on me. Like mold. Or cancer. Brain cancer.