• gravitas_deficiency
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    1 year ago

    22.04 LTS gang

    Honestly, it’s kinda my default general purpose linux distro at this point. Set it up bare bones and headless, rip out snap, and do what you want.

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      1 year ago

      @gravitas_deficiency @alcasa

      I personally use #NixOS. The declarative nature of it is so nice.

      It enables me to share common configuration between different computers while still allowing host specific differences without relying on hacky solutions like #chezmoi.

      Not knocking chezmoi, it’s great and I used it for years, I just prefer the home-manager module for NixOS.

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        1 year ago

        I have seen a lot about Nix recently, and I must admit I’m really intrigued. I definitely want to play around with it more. Conceptually, it does sound pretty cool.

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            Yeah, it definitely seems aimed way more at cluster deployments. Still, a very cool concept to tailor the OS towards.

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              @gravitas_deficiency

              While it is definitely amazing for cluster deployments, Nix, the package manager behind the OS came out of the creators PhD thesis.

              It is quite a successful attempt to make builds completely reproducible. NixOS, is what you get when you build a distro around a package manager, rather than a package manager around a distro.

              I use it as my daily driver these days, and haven’t had any issues with it for gaming, and due to the way its package manager works, I prefer it for development over anything else.

              It is the most stable and unbreakable system I have ever used, despite using the unstable repos. It also has the most up to date repo on linux. As far as unique packages, it is a close second to the AUR, but it is catching up.

              It isn’t for everyone, and may be betamax to containerization when it comes to software development, but for the time being, I cannot see it going away anytime soon.

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      1 year ago

      22.04 is fucking spectacular. Now that it’s got 10 years of free support… I don’t know what I’m gonna do.