Where NixOS?
Urn full of ashes - Manjaro
It me. I am Happy baby.
not accurate
source: transfem opensuse user
well…
source: overweight bearded nerd with glasses using opensuse
Lemme zoom in here just a wee bit on this here whatchycallit… Meme? Oh fiddlesticks, I don’t have me glasses… There they are… Oh! Hee hee haa haa you young fellers are drole.
I use Debian.
how many years more i have to use mint until i rejuvenate?
As a Debian user. I’ll take it. Could be worse, could be anyone of the others.
Never met an arch user, but I know a NixOS user who is pretty much the bottom middle.
The arch users are also bottoms.
Can confirm. I arch bottom, btw.
I run
top😏
Fedora user wearing Fedora. Might be a little on the nose.
I wear a fedora, and I’ve used nearly any and all distros as my daily driver, except fedora.
It’s so confusing.
Ummm accccctually it’s a trillby.
I stand corrected! :)
Ummm actually, it’s pronounced acktually
Hats are also just super uncomfy and mess with my hair.
Hey I’m not that old!
I came to say excactly that.
1995 was 10 years ago right?
So feels like it.
Would be nice.
Can we pick this up again from 2005?
Absolutely. And 1980s was about 20 years ago.
Always
As a Linux Mint Debian Edition user. I guess I’m just Benjamin Button.
Yes, am a literal toddler.
I always felt that the default package situation for Ubuntu was far better than Debian’s. Like, no, I don’t want to set a root password and then manually install sudo or doas after and then add myself to the relevant group and then remove the root password…
As always people forget glorious Nixos
I think we NixOS users get grouped in with Arch. Same socks, different colors.
The one NixOS user I know is genuinely like that lol.
And the even more glorious, guix
As a NixOS user, what are some things I would like about Guix? The webpage mostly covers features already present in NixOS, so I’m curious how they diverge.
- Superior Error handling and debugging(with Lisp REPL) thanks to Guile Scheme language.
- Guile scheme is easier to write and understand. It has a mature ecosystem of libraries and standard programming constructs (macros, recursion, higher-order functions)
- In Guix System, the package manager, the build system, and the system configuration are all written in the same language.
- No systemd, Guix system uses GNU Shepherd. You define services directly in Guile Scheme. This allows for dynamic service manipulation, hot-swapping, and introspection using the same language as the rest of the system.
- Guix home (the home manager) is built in and very easy to use if you already got the hang of Guile Scheme.
- Guix uses linux-libre, which is fully free kernel. If your hardware is not supported (likely) there is a nonguix channel to get proprietary packages to make it work.
- The standard guix repository contains only free software. Proprietary software can be installed via some other channels, but not recommended.
If NixOS uses systemd that’s the difference probably, my understanding is that guix is a non-systemd distro. (I am not who you replied to, just trying to help.)
Add all the windows refugees with Zorin flooding forums with easily searchable questions and the gaming refugees with nobara complaining their community supported software isn’t as full featured or polished as software produced by a multi-billion dollar company.
I can confirm that with a fresh Zorin install to replace windows 10, I am/will be one of the described persons. So far my qwant searches and AI searches have kept me off the forums, but I know the day will come.
It happens. I remember back in 2008 having quite the time learning about Linux with zero awareness of anything. I remember being kinda shocked there was a whole OS that wasn’t windows or Mac and it was free.
Arch does piss me off less than most distros.
Wait….
Reminds of the ol’ Churchill line… “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the other types of government.”
