• JGrffn@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Boring is good indeed. I’m running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.

      • horrorslice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yup. I agree. Immutable distros save me from myself and endless tweaking. I have it on my gaming laptop and my gaming desktop. I’ll be throwing it on my wife’s gaming desktop soon enough.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          I don’t have any experience with immutable distros, are they harder/impossible to tweak, or just easier?

          • horrorslice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The core files are read-only. You can layer new system applications, but it’s not as easy as just installing a package. Most things are handled via Flatpaks. So the base is solid and you can’t do much to really ruin the stability.

            There is a learning curve, as it’s different than normal distros.

            Here is a decent read up on it: https://www.linuxnest.com/what-is-an-immutable-distro

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
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      3 months ago

      Bazzite. An immutable[1] distro pre-configured for gaming.

      [1]

      The root system is one image and can’t be altered.
      Software is installed from a GUI software center via flatpak.
      A bit like Android.

  • DoubRasp :inkscape:@mastodon.ml
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    3 months ago

    @mech I use Void Linux on my old laptop from 2007 and it’s fine enough for me. If I’ll change Windows to Linux on my main PC though, I’ll pick something Debian-based (but not Ubuntu-based), because I need something balanced and with lots of software available to download.

      • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s there to solve your “This is boring” issue without having to do all of the system configuration stuff manually*.

        I was able to package a nightly AppImage as if it were installed normally like an app, and I could reinstall the system if I wanted to, and it’d still be there. NixOS is the opposite of manual dependency resolution, it’s dependency heaven. You can have unstable and stable repositories side-by-side, living in a utopic egalitarian society. You can write a configuration file that does everything. You can do anything with NixOS. NixOS is the one true god, all hail NixOS—

        Ah, I see why you may not want to use it. Consider it though, it’s genuinely good and trying doesn’t hurt.

        I haven’t even told you about nix-comma or nix helper (nh) yet. May the, uh, flake be with you.

        *You do have to write the config files, though you can just adapt someone else’s configuration.

        • Cyberwolf@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          You can have unstable and stable repositories side-by-side, living in a utopic egalitarian society.

          The NixOS-communist intersectionality is something I never expected to come across, but it makes so much sense lmao. This is 100% true.

    • Bonje@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I adore the idea of nix. I fucking hate the syntax with a passion.

      oh use the .packages but only for this else use a flake and if you want dot files there is this other completely different thing with home manager but if you want this extra config customization or a custom system script then you need to make a derrivatio…

      its so damn exhausting.

      I just want a list of packages.

      That I can put in modules.

      And turn them on and off based on the computer I’m on.

      And if they are on they should use these dots.

      And not look like a spaghetti bowl made of curly braces sourced from json derulos left buttock.

      And the system should also have some additional sbctl hooks because we still have not figured out that dracut generated initramfs files don’t get purged from the database so I have to have a custom hook to not get error messages every time I paru ahahahAAHAHA…

      anyway dcli exists and is a fine middle ground.

      • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The biggest thing that helped me with nix is to realize the syntax is shit because the language is veryyyy different. Entirely expression based, nearly pure functional programing. Everything is a set.

        Once I understood that it was much simpler, and worth the time. I never worry about system configuration anymore it just works, and it’ll keep working unless I choose to change something in my system flake

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    And in the center of the graph you can find Fedora.
    Far from perfect but the exact middle ground

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is why you need to have 2 computers. One to run a boring distro that just works. And the other one for installing distros that you can ride for fun as it goes down in flames.

    The best of both worlds.

    • nil@piefed.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Fedora is the best. My friend who recently started using Linux persuades me to install NixOS (which I’ve already tried 2 years ago), but I really can’t leave Fedora. Everything just works and are up to date.

      • Holla@feddit.org
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        3 months ago

        Opensuse is also great: Like Fedora its rpm-based and backed by a corpo and with Tumbleweed you’ll get a nice rolling release experience without worries that it’s gonna bork itself

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, that’s me comfortably sitting on Bazzite right now. There are definitely ways for it to improve, but I’ve only really ever had one issue in the last few months, and that was fixed the next week. I just get to use my computer, and it’s nice.

      • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Did you also have an issue booting due to some network driver issue on 43.20260309? I had to rpm-ostree rollback to 43.20260217 a couple weeks ago. Besides that, Bazzite has indeed been very smooth sailing.

        • poke@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Ah, thankfully I didn’t run into that one. I have a goxlr and they broke it for 2 weeks so I did a manual rollback until it was fixed, because having audio is kinda nice.

        • timestatic@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          Yeah but I like to tinker when I chose to tinker. Not randomly when I’m trying to get work done

        • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I am one of those people, but I’m still annoyed when my tools don’t work right. I hate having to fix something, only to find out that my tool I need for that also needs repairs. I use my computer’s primarily as tools, so I almost always am at least a little annoyed when my computer demands attention all of a sudden.

          Maybe there are others that are hobbyists. I guess if you’re a computer tinkerer primarily, troubleshooting that crap can be like cultivating a zen garden, but it is the opposite for me.