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Thank you for the recommendation. I have been wanting to try out the FUTO apps (which grayjay) for a while but couldn’t find it on f-droid. It looks like they have their own repo which you need to add.
Just got grayjay downloaded and it is so good!
Another reason no one else has mentioned yet is that countries want to have control over their own power generation. If you’re power is all generated in another country then it can potentially be turned off by another country.
Before the recs I just want to shout out libro.FM - they sell audiobooks and donate half of the profits to independent book stores.
Classic sci fi:
I think the more modern sci fi is good too so I will give you some recommendations anyway:
From what I remember they were using GNOME for pop os with some custom addons they had made (for example a tiling addon). GNOME updates will sometimes break addons and I think the pop os people got tired of this.
I actually really liked the addon as it would help you have a workflow closer to a tiling window manager.
So they are creating a DE with the features they think are important (tiling, performance, others) in mind from the start. I like the idea of this as I don’t want to commit to installing 100’s of tools for a tiling window manager like hyprland but I do want the benefits of tiling.
Also it’s written in rust which implies performance and security.
https://snowflakeos.org/ - this project is focused on building an easier version of nixos including a GUI software store based on gnome software.
edit:ooops I meant to respond to @onlinepersona@programming.dev here
anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.
Nixpkgs are the most up to date of any package respiratory source
It is likely that you were using the current ‘stable’ channel that does not have the very latest packages. The ‘unstable’ channel does have the very latest packages and is what I think most people use.
nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don’t really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I’ll def be playing with it again.
I totally agree, I wish it was easier to learn.
It worked for me with just: virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true; in the configuration.nix.
Stable channels provide conservative updates for fixing bugs and security vulnerabilities, but do not receive major updates after initial release.
If you want up to date packages then use the unstable channel.
Nix has the most unique packages and the most up to date packages of any Linux software repository. It has substantially more fresh packages than Arch or Alpine (which you say does a better job in a separate comment).
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How often do you run nixos-rebuild --switch?
If you don’t run it regularly then you will likely be waiting for a few different packages to get updates. To fix this you can configure auto upgrades:https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Automatic_system_upgrades
I have definitely found it challenging at times to do even simple things. I think it does get easier over time.
I really hope the new user experience will improve. Once the issues with flakes are fixed and they are no longer experimental I would expect flakes to replace the other ways of doing things. This will hopefully make the documentation more concise/focused/better. It might also mean more people start using nix/flakes which will surface more of these problems to be fixed.
I think people need to decide if the benefits they are getting are worth the challenges. I personally really like the reproducibility and the massive amount of packages available from one place. On other distros I have used things have ended up breaking eventually and I have had to re-install things and search for fixes. But on NixOs things keep working.
“I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top”
Most is described here (the author probably has some amount of bias but this is the only summary I know of): https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained
Other than that some very active contributors resigned as maintainers in support of the open letters.
And it seems now that the community members in support of the open letters/changes have convinced the board of the foundation to agree on some things.
Could you link to the Lemmy style app please, I haven’t heard of this before
Its really hard to day without more information. You should talk to a doctor. Some other things that could be causing this that noone else has mentioned yet(I can’t tell if this applies for you or not based on your post):
Remember that many people have had similar problems and overcome them. You will just need to work out what works for you. Good luck.
Sorry about this. I just found the video interesting when it popped up on my feed.
The only annoyance is that after an update by bluetooth controller gets disconnected.