Lisp code is already like this. That’s why I keep trying to explain it to programmers. Try reading the book SICP, published decades ago by MIT computer researchers.

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU

Ow, my 3D, folded computer Orbs!

People who can build up advanced logic systems can make or adapt their own Unix-like operating system on any computer. It happened before and it’ll happen again, even if the computer uses confusing Orb stuff instead of modern bits and bytes.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html

You mean the complex mathematical Orbs powering your computer?

Then you probably shouldn’t use Nix. Maybe try another distro if you haven’t already.

NixOS is probably a bit more confusing than most Linux distros, but it has a huge amount of advantages too. It has very up to date software and probably never has dependency issues.

I’m guessing you might be trying to edit the software to do something else as well, in which case it might be possible to embed Python somehow or get it to call another program.

It seems like you want to do some kind of facial recognition. That feels a bit out of my league if I’m honest, but I can tell you the sort of thing I would probably try to do if I had to do that.

You’d want some footage from when someone’s face was close to the camera, so you could try getting snapshots of when there was a lot of motion in the video, then save those to some folder as pictures.

Once you have those pictures, it sounds a lot easier to try to run some complicated facial recognition algorithm on them than just “using the right camera software”.

Presumably the CCTV is controlled by some server, so I would get the server to then handle the facial recognition separately, either on a schedule or soon after the motion close to the camera. An underlying facial recognition software could hopefully be called as part of a shell script on the server.

If that’s the problem you’re trying to solve, I think I broke it down into a few subproblems, which might help. I might be a bit wrong though because I have no experience doing anything with CCTVs.

Main reason I started using Linux on my computers a few years ago. I also learned some shocking things about privacy that made me wanna switch. Linux runs most stuff someone not in another weird niche could ever want nowadays anyway.

The function keys allow you to access extra features or shortcuts in programs that most people don’t ever use or don’t know might make them slightly quicker if they use the program a lot.

Steve Jobs only seemed to believe in supporting input methods he thought seemed most convenient for most people. Anything else was needlessly complicated and a waste of space. Some of his ideas about that come across as unusual, especially when things like space aren’t as limited.

Generally I think people that use Linux on their home PCs are more likely to have stuff like multiple screens or loads of gadgets attached to their computer. A lot of Linux users think it’s really cool or like to imagine themselves as someone that does things like lots of complicated data analysis or being an “epic hacker” in their spare time at home. Extra shit on your desk can be genuinely useful if you actually do those kinds of things and add to the aesthetic if you like them.