NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^
One day, one day soon I will install nixOS on my ThinkPad. Til then I will continue using silverblue like a pleb
That’s exactly how nixos went for me you feel like you understand it and then went to go and look at old configs after awhile and was like what in the fuck and rewrote the whole thing but once you figure it out it’s pretty easy to keep learning
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.
So. BTW, I don’t use Arch.
Is the package manager as extensive as arch? Does it have an AUR equivalent? I’ve been wanting to try Nix or GUIX for a while.
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.
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 don’t like Anduril either, but what’s wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?
I’m with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it’s a surveillance company.
The axis don’t make sense.
The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress
The original comic was very accurate
No, the black line is EVE Online. There could have been an edit replacing it with Dwarf Fortress, but the original is definitely about EVE Online.
Oh dang you’re right, I definitely remember a DF version but yes
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.
Except it is in 3d, you can just only see 1 slice at a time making it that much harder.
As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.
Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.
So if you’ve played Rimworld it’ll feel familiar. Much more complex but part of that complexity is because you can traverse the Z axis, and make multi-level fortresses.
I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date). If that’s still the caseAt any rate, the end of every fortress (that doesn’t succumb to a mood spiral or a were-beast or an elf invasion or the circus or forgetting to pack an anvil or vampires or a cavern collapse) is fps death. Usually from cats. But remember, losing is fun!I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date)
Dwarf Fortress started adding multithreading last year along with an engine update. This is in large part to Tarn hiring outside help to work on the Steam release, and the game has never been better.
Amazing news and you love to hear it! I’m so happy Tarn and Zach get to benefit from their passion project. TBH i haven’t played since they introduced magic. I got distracted by other things. But I 100% bought it through steam as soon as it was released, just out of appreciation
I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.
You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.
Just learn UNIX then you inherently know everything except windows
(though mostly true this is still a joke relax)
When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.
I’ve been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.
I think the point apart from declaring the whole system is that Nix saves changes to config files, this eliminates the concept of .pacnew / .pacsave.
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I use Gentoo btw
I use guix cause having an entire OS centered around Scheme is cool and based.
Wearing out the parentheses keys on my keyboard
Do you happen to know if KDE is already available there?
KDE is not, Plasma is:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Desktop-Services
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
KDE separated out into Plasma and the utilities and apps separately at KDE 5. Previously it was all one package, so there is a bit of a confusing distinction.
What’s the difference? You mean a DE is available but not the base software?
Wasn’t it something like, KDE was the distro and desktop name but now the desktop is Plasma?
The distro is KDE Neon
The desktop is KDE Plasma, or Plasma for short
Cool, though mileage will vary considering guix is linux-libre
You can use non-guix
I can and do, of course!
The point was only about guix
Or do you mean I can change kernel to non-libre?
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
Will check out, thank you!
Figured a link would help: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
Ignore the weird wording about not promoting it on the page, it’s just a warning to keep people from complaining about the nonguix packages to the guix devs, but there’s lots of crossover
Thanks!
Genuinely appreciated.
For anyone worried about the Nix drama, a fork has already happened.
You can find it under lix.systems.
Thank you, was wondering what happened there.
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!
Was the original a joke about MMO learning curves with the top line being Path of Exile?
EVE Online I think
I work with spreadsheets all day, why would I want to do it in my free time?
Shame AO wasn’t there, probably not Eve level but also more enjoyable
Path of exile is fine as long as you follow someone elses build
You might be able to get through the story and a couple of maps pretty easily without a guide, later acts will be difficult if you specced really wrong, but if you want to run endgame content and league mechanics while on a hardcore solo self founded character then you better go get fucking gud, mate.
I’m pretty sure I saw this with EVE Online a long time ago.
Eve Online is the finest, most intricate MMO ever created, and I absolutely hate it.
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If you are paying for a subscription and get full access to the progression system, then stuff starts becoming available reasonably quickly. Within a year or so, I was a capable ABC miner as part of a crew in a wormhole system, making enough ISK each month to pay for my monthly subscription through PLEX and have half of it left over.
Things dreamt up by the utterly deranged :D
Yeah
I give up, what’s POTBS?
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Never heard of it, either
Never heard here either, I’d say RuneScape is more popular, so this chart is basically invalid LMAO
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.
No it means that it requires much more skill earlier in the progression.
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.
It says “gaming skill”, not “gaining skill”. Whoever edited it forgot to edit that and “time playing”.
Damn cant read, thanks
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.
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‘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!
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Huh? I thought the original chart means I get more gaming skill from playing EVE than from playing WoW - which totally makes sense
It is clearly meant to be graphing the difficulty of the game VS time played. The graph means what the author designed it to mean.
No temple OS?
Joking aside, has anyone legitimately tried to port an app to TempleOS, just for fun?
Dude I hate you. You got my curiosity. I’ll have to look into it. Damn it.
Lol let me know if you find a good video.
LFS would be a much better fit.
Woohoo I’m almost driving the bulldozer… Almost
I have no idea how Windows is the red line in this, it should be the green but even steeper
