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Haha, try installing anything on NixOS before learning how to program
Doesn’t let you just do whatever you want. I turned off the windows firewall in windows 7 and went on with my life. Windows 11 wouldn’t let me download updates with the firewall off.
Unusable on a hard drive, would just freeze while scanning all your files. Wouldn’t let you turn it off
I’ll tell you why I use it: to use open source software. I noticed whatever freemium program I used on Windows that was cool eventually got enshittified and became spyware. Like fucking clockwork, the author of uTorrent sold out and all the new versions became cancer
Linux has better support for a lot of open source software, you can use a package manager to download most of it, and flatpak for a bunch that’s not there
It’s just so much easier than trying to find the official site for the program you want.
Now that I think about it, that original meme was not true either. My friends always argued about windows vs. Mac, and continued to Android vs. iPhone
Like, people talk about OSes in general conversation
1·2 months agoGoogle is the Google of Linux. They actually make their own distro
Spent a ton of time trying to install GrapheneOS because web USB doesn’t work in snap version of chrome. How about letting me install the normal deb version? Nope, can’t let the user choose
I found this that might help:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-use-a-local-directory-as-a-nix-binary-cache/655/13
Nix is better for CLI programs since it also figured out how to avoid dependency hell
Install CLI packages with Nix. You don’t need a proprietary system
The South being down is a convention, Antarctica is actually sideways from you if you live on the equator
Just install it to your profile
I play games on Linux
Not an issue on NixOS, you can ship old deps with it
Nix: you package it yourself and do a pull request
Sadly, many flatpaks don’t even work on NixOS properly because of assumptions about the file structure or similar
No, enter gate
I don’t use those, I select my own components using SystemD OS.
Like my configuration actually has to specify whether I’m using gnome or KDE, nothing is “by default” in my distro except for SystemD
It was actually 2022, the year when steam deck released. The proton compatibility shot through the roof. Linux now supports a far wider array of software than MacOS, even.