• Bluewing@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    20·
    2 days ago

    NixOS – now I’ve finally found the endgame distro!

    several days later CachyOS is actually much simpler.

        • timestatic@feddit.org
          17·
          3 days ago

          Yeah but I like to tinker when I chose to tinker. Not randomly when I’m trying to get work done

        • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
          9·
          3 days ago

          I am one of those people, but I’m still annoyed when my tools don’t work right. I hate having to fix something, only to find out that my tool I need for that also needs repairs. I use my computer’s primarily as tools, so I almost always am at least a little annoyed when my computer demands attention all of a sudden.

          Maybe there are others that are hobbyists. I guess if you’re a computer tinkerer primarily, troubleshooting that crap can be like cultivating a zen garden, but it is the opposite for me.

      • bryndos@fedia.io
        1·
        3 days ago

        back when i used to get burgled regularly, it was great. forced us out of the flat for a while before the insurance came in, far better than wasting time on pointless computance.

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, that’s me comfortably sitting on Bazzite right now. There are definitely ways for it to improve, but I’ve only really ever had one issue in the last few months, and that was fixed the next week. I just get to use my computer, and it’s nice.

      • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Did you also have an issue booting due to some network driver issue on 43.20260309? I had to rpm-ostree rollback to 43.20260217 a couple weeks ago. Besides that, Bazzite has indeed been very smooth sailing.

        • poke@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days ago

          Ah, thankfully I didn’t run into that one. I have a goxlr and they broke it for 2 weeks so I did a manual rollback until it was fixed, because having audio is kinda nice.

  • Cyberwolf@feddit.org
    122·
    3 days ago

    I think I just reached the point where my NixOS is configured exactly as I want, so now the system just works and works without me changing anything. 😭 I’m gonna have to start having sex since I can no longer justify it on the lack of time.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    52·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    I’ll never understand why some people have the need to constantly fiddle with their OS install. But, different strokes for different folks.

    • Bonje@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      I adore the idea of nix. I fucking hate the syntax with a passion.

      oh use the .packages but 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 paru ahahahAAHAHA…

      anyway dcli exists and is a fine middle ground.

      • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        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

    • JGrffn@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      Boring is good indeed. I’m running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.

      • horrorslice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yup. I agree. Immutable distros save me from myself and endless tweaking. I have it on my gaming laptop and my gaming desktop. I’ll be throwing it on my wife’s gaming desktop soon enough.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          1·
          3 days ago

          I don’t have any experience with immutable distros, are they harder/impossible to tweak, or just easier?

          • horrorslice@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            The core files are read-only. You can layer new system applications, but it’s not as easy as just installing a package. Most things are handled via Flatpaks. So the base is solid and you can’t do much to really ruin the stability.

            There is a learning curve, as it’s different than normal distros.

            Here is a decent read up on it: https://www.linuxnest.com/what-is-an-immutable-distro

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      13·
      3 days ago

      Bazzite. An immutable[1] distro pre-configured for gaming.

      [1]

      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.

  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      10·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    Do people really be using Slackware these days? I’m on Bazzite atm and it’s cool but a bit different esp with the ostree stuff.

    Curious what the use case is for Slackware nowadays

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      7·
      3 days ago

      A few thousand people in the world, yes.

      It combines the stability of Debian with the simplicity of Arch, and turns both up to 11.
      Main selling point is that it never does anything unexpected.
      You set it up and then it works the way you’re used to, literally for decades.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Slack is great when you need to make something completely out of the ordinary. It’s right there just one step removed from a system from scratch without GNU.

      That said, embedded computers nowadays run full Debian. So I dunno what use it still has.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 days ago

      Feeling superior to Gentoo and Arch users.

      I see the main use case for Slackware, if you’re a Linux graybeard, who has used it for 20 years.