this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
682 points (96.7% liked)

linuxmemes

21197 readers
67 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

    • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    682
    All I wanted to do was just watch pr0n... (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
    62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Don't install NixOS. You won't distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    What's the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    The disadvantage is there's no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu

    The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there's no global library

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    nixos sucks in a lot of ways sadly all non declerative os are automatically worse

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You're never like "oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can't have both"