AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

Yeah, who’d hate using a package manager that increasingly slows down your boot time with every package installed, or that uses a closed source store to provide you FOSS

Maybe there’s a reason canonical has to force it on their users

No, Debian doesn’t take your apt install ... command and install a snap behind your back…

73 and 76, but I got them mixed up, ed is older.

That’s for original Emacs though, the gnu version came out in 85

Emacs is older than ed

Inb4 it becomes/is a subsidiary of the NSO group…

Separate your system and user lists. Use home-manager for example for your user packages. I think separating those configs is the official recommendation.

As for the rest, I’m using nix on MX because of declarative package management. Screw going back to imperative and having to remember what packages to install. If it’s something I use often it goes on a list, if I don’t nix shell comes to the rescue.

I’d rather mess around with dev envs for nix than distrobox.

Damn you broke my brain for a second there. I thought you meant that nixos replaced k8s, and was wondering what the hell are you talking about.

Zerowriter Ink should get up to a week of battery life

ESP strikes again…

I was talking about regular fedora. It’s not that you have to reboot, but you don’t get to use those updates until you do. The most obvious example is updating the kernel and its modules.

Linux almost never needs to reboot after an update

Doesn’t it often need a reboot to apply some updates?

I rember reading something along those lines then I was researching why Fedora installs some updates after a reboot. Most

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

You can’t replace it.

Zig?

Sure, but if you do that, and then follow it up with often outage and security issues, I’m going to seriously rethink using your services.

Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

Self-hosting is right out for most people. It’s pretty expensive to even get started without compromising your home network (router with VLAN, switch, multiple servers (at least thinclients)), and then on top of that you need to maintain it, and can’t really ever max out your download/upload speeds because people are depending on your internet to interact with the repo.

Gitlab is also for-profit, but also has blackouts and devs going rm -rf on the production DB. It’s often in the news for bad things, so I’ve generally avoided it.

Codeberg is great for personal repos, but most smaller git hosting services have horrible SEO. Like I’ve had issues finding repos when searching for their exact name, if I had to use general search terms I’d only see github repos.

Gitlab: For profit (wouldn’t say it’s much better than github)

It’s got that added excitement that comes with a risk of someone doing a rm -rf on the production DB

It’s not pretty, but it’s uniform, obvious, and easy to understand.

go is good grug friend who chase away complexity demon by limit damage of big brain developer

declarative > imperative all day, every day

I’m going to have to come back to Nix/NixOS in a bit.

Use nix + home-manager first for sure. It’s far easier, and you can slowly get into it while making a list of bleeding edge packages.

I’ll probably wait until the official docs catch up as it appears that they are quite a bit behind

Skip them altogether when you’re starting out. I gave up on trying nix the first few times due to how bad they are. zero-to-nix.com is better for learning the basics of nix.

That and I’m not sure how I feel about a DSL for package management. I’d much rather use JSON or YAML, or even INI or TOML.

The closest you can get is home-manager with a list of packages in a json-like format. It’s really not practical to develop a declarative system without a programming language. A basic example would be variables, more advanced would be to write a wrapper that modifies the package so it automatically runs the required cli commands to use your dediated gpu and nixGL with specific packages (nvidia-run-mx nixVulkanNvidia-525.147.05 obs for example).

It’s sort of like IaC where you’ve got terraform (dsl), pulumi (various languages), and cloudformation (json/yaml). Can you guess which one is universally despised?

Maybe if I were a LISP or Haskell guy.

Then you’d use guix and a dsl made within an actual programming language (much better approach IMO).

That’s such a bad name, I only see lixmaballs.

How do you like it, that’s one of the earlier forks, right?