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I feel like it isn’t really specific to arch, every distro has a following, but some are more “passionate” about it than others. I think arch, NixOS, and gentoo are the most notable.

I’m starting to think that in terms of features and possiblities, nix might truly be the best third party package manager of all. But the downside is that especially when using it the way it’s recommended, combined with home manager, it has the steepest learning curve. Also graphical apps can be problematic. There is a tool called nixgl that tries to solve this, but it’s a wrapper, so when a nix application opens a child process that needs to use the native system drivers, that childprocess is also wrapped in nixgl and it breaks. I recently found a neat workaround on github to solve this in a better way, which is to create a driver package manually with home manager, and symlink it to /run/, which is also where the drivers are linked on NixOS. This is a gamechanger to me because with no driver problems anymore, you can install almost everything through nix on pretty much any distro, except maybe for some programs that need system level access to run. You can install graphical programs, cli programs, and even entire window managers with it. I’m using full NixOS at the moment, but i’m seriously debating moving back to void linux with nix on top. Currently messing with it in a vm to test my configs.

Honestly upon looking into it a bit more, it seems like there is actually a dvd release already, or atleast i got some legit search results for that, so if it’s a dvd it’s probably legit, but there doesn’t seem to be a legit blu ray yet.

Nice bootleg bro

I think rmpc can do this too, which is an mpd client with album art support, but it’s terminal based and requires some manual configuring. I’ve been buying CDs over the past couple of years to get rid of streaming as well, and i think i’m finally ready to cut the cord. I’ve been experimenting with different music players but ended up ditching mpd. I like to be able to switch between audio outputs easily, like alsa or pipewire, and since mpd is configured through a config file it kinda sucks for that. I also like to be able to play CDs directly, eventhough i have ripped them all, but i haven’t been able to get any terminal player to play a cd, except for mplayer, which is too minimal for my taste. At the moment i’m really liking audacious. Also tried deadbeef and strawberry, but deadbeef doesn’t have mpris support ootb, and strawberry feels a bit bloated to me. Audacious feels like a nice middleground. Audacious does support viewing lyrics but not synced from what i can tell unfortunately.

Yeah in that case you probably want something else. So far i’ve only ever used it for text based questions. I think i remember seeing that there is also a webui out there but i don’t remember the name.

So far i’ve really liked just using ollama in the terminal since it just spits out text anyway.

Just curious, if you’re trying to replicate xfce on wayland, why did you choose sway instead of a stacking compositor?

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For me it’s pretty basic. It’s mostly aliases for nix related commands, like rebuild-switch, updating, garbage collecting, because those nix commands are pretty lenghty, especially with having to point to your flake and everything. I’m thinking of maybe adding an alias for cyanrip (cli cd ripper), because i recently ripped my entire cd collection, but going forward if i buy another cd every now and then, i’ll probably end up forgetting about which flags i used.

Why would you customize your terminal on windows if you never use it though lol. Also for me it’s the other way around. Had to start dualbooting again recently and i started using winget, because it’s much more convenient than going through websites and downloading exe’s. Maybe not as good as on linux, but a nice improvement.

Well i have to admit i’ve actually been treating gta online as a single player grind game for the most part. On ps4/5 i did play together with a friend of mine though, but playing in a lobby with randoms can definitely be frustrating, especially if you are a grinder because lots of people like blowing your shit up. I’m honestly still shocked that rockstar allows you to pretty much do everything in invite only lobbies now, because i remember having to do all kinds of tricks with my internet connection to get into a public lobby by myself.

Gekoloniseerd. And personally i’ve also been considering air cooling my cpu again just to switch it up a bit and see what it’s like, plus on linux it might make my life easier because i can just let the bios control the fan speed instead of relying on reverse engineered open source alternatives to get it to work. I don’t think i’ll buy a new cooler until my current aio dies though. I’m pretty sure i’ve had it for 6 years now and it’s still going strong.

Me booting into windows just to play some gta online

I don’t care about the init system, however i do love void mainly because of the package manager.

If i remember correctly you can pass a txt file to pacman when installing packages, but i could be wrong. There is also BlendOS, which from what i can tell has an immutable base, with a toml config on top of it to install the additional packages you want. Never tried it myself though. I also use NixOS because i wanted to be able to reproduce my riced out system more easily if i have to reinstall. I do wish this space had some more competition, because it might make this way of running a distro more approachable. The closest thing i’ve seen aside from guix is probably those ublue customized images that you can build, but i’m not sure how comparable that is.

Idk but in his thumbnails he always looks like he has to take a shit

Honestly surprised nintendo hasn’t taken it down yet lol

The fact that it’s that noticable, even in games, is unfortunate and i don’t know what would fix it. In my case i have a va panel that also flickers with vrr enabled, but i only notice it on the desktop. I only use window managers so i have keybinds to turn vrr on and off, which solves it for me. On windows it doesn’t flicker on the desktop though, so i’m assuming it does some stuff in the background where it only gets turned on when i boot up a game.

If you prefer stacking then maybe wayfire is worth taking a look at. It’s a stacking compositor but it has eyecandy as well.