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...NixOS is the new Arch Linux. Change my mind.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Hardly, NixOS documentation is trash. The Arch Wiki is essentially the platonic ideal of documentation.
Maybe you should learn to read the manual or debug your system without hand holding 😉
Truefax
It doesn't have a wiki as good as Arch, yet
The difference is I can upgrade my NixOS without breaking everything hahaha. But it has gotten a lot more popular recently, which I think is your analogy? Or because people always bring it up now lol
Nah, NixOS has a very deserved air of superiority. Arch just fakes its one.
Seriously, the learning curve of nixOS is still... exhausting. Couldn't get it to run with plasma 6 and wayland and the documentation is so incomplete.
Edit: Typo
fun fact: you could add the extra-testing to repo to get it the first day
How long until "works on my machine" becomes "works on my config"
with the linux logo on his face
😂 a freudian slip
Why do you include the CC link in all of your comments...?
It's a phase
I gotta say and it feels weird to but I'm happy Arch are spending a bit longer testing these days. When I used to run it updates just felt rushed into the repo so Arch got it first.
Getting plasma 6 a week after it drops is still “bleeding edge” when the alternative is a couple months
I too like strong hits of copium
Can't you just build from source of you want it? Like kde has pretty good docs for this.
But compiler scawy
Compiling source code tends to get messy when you decide to remove it from your system. Also, you'll have to manually update it, any package manager will be unaware of it and can't do anything with it anyway. You'll also be responsible for dealing with conflicts with other software or dependency issues. That's why we have repos. Someone else did all that work already.
They removed legacy font based DPI scaling. I hate it. Nothing looks right 😭
Could you explain what that is?
Plasma used to have 2 ways of dealing with pixil density settings and they removed my favorite one. It's been deprecated for ages so I knew it was coming but it still hurt
Couldn't Arch users just install it through the Nix Package manager?
NixOS users install KDE using a NixOS config option, as there's a lot of configuration needed to make KDE run beyond just installing the binaries.
@onlinepersona@programming.dev not really about this post, but i see that you have a license link in all your comments. Just curious, do you copy-paste that every time or do you have some automated setup?
I do copy paste it. KDE has a tool called klipper that allows to have a clipboard history, so hitting Super+V brings up a dropdown and I can select it. The effort is therefore minimal.
Consider using the KDE keyboard shortcut tools to set up a permanent paste keybind instead of using the history.
For example, I have a keybind that sends a known mouse movement input, which I use to set that known mouse input to always correspond to ten centimeters of on-screen movement.
Using a keybind would remove the need to ever select the right item from the history, and reduce the clutter in it for copy-pasting other things.
Considering all of my theming and several of my apps have broken today, and that I’ve had two crashes… I’m glad they took longer.
Things are weird too under Gnome rn. Check this out:
I genuinely don't know how to fix this one. It just started doing that one day and it doesn't matter if i use or dash-to-dock, dash-to-panel, etc. The spacebar extension wants to plop it right before the menu. It's mildly infuriating. I really, really wish Gnome would just let us configure the panels more similar to Plasma or Latte-Dock. I don't want to switch to KDE Plasma because I don't like most QT apps and honestly Breeze doesn't look good as libadwaita. Custom themes are super inconsistent in Plasma and it drives me a bit nuts. Tho, I heard the KDE team proposed a solution that might make things better in the next couple versions.
If I ended up on Plasma I'd have to exclude the majority of KDEs and add their Gnome equivalents XD
I wonder if that would work... 🤔