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How Not To Write A Web Service in Rust (fd93.me)
 

Wrote an article about my extended skill issues and failures at writing Rust for the web. Luckily managed to get back on track recently.

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds good in theory, until you want to install scikit-image or other Python libraries which need complex builds.

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

I keep meaning to try Gentoo out but haven't gotten round to it. I think it didn't like VirtualBox or something?

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They're between releases right now, but once COSMIC desktop is ready and they release Pop 24.04 I'll probably try it out. More likely that I'm moving to Xubuntu Minimal 24.04 on the daily driver though.

PopOS is great OOTB but I've become attached to rofi and XFCE recently and like the old-school "apps are utilities" style of Linux desktops over PopOS / Mint which try to bundle everything together.

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've tried Arch and others as well, even stuff like Slackware, Bodhi, Void, but I'd say that my preference has generally moved away from doing tinkering / maintenance at all other than for fun or profit. I'd still consider Nix for a server / workstation setup but just not as a daily driver.

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I actually can't remember as it would have been 6+ months ago now. The issue is probably fixed already by the Debian maintainers / Elementary Team / both.

Likely something with Meson build / apt not playing nicely.

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Debian really doesn't like installing different versions of GUI libraries & their dependencies.

I really like Pantheon Files.

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Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu (fd93.me)
 

Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

The Mindful Desktop + An Openbox VM in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

This is one of the best compliments I've ever had for an article, thanks so much 😅

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The Mindful Desktop + An Openbox VM (fd93.me)
 

Hey all, I wrote this article with some practical advice on how to resist the attention economy (think notifications, shorts, ads, etc) by setting up a desktop for mindful engagement.

It also includes a VirtualBox VM with a lightweight sample environment so you can try it out and see what I mean in the article.

Hope this is helpful! :)

No Boilerplate NixOS video in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] fd93@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

This video is great. I'm on Nix and I wholeheartedly endorse the philosophy behind it, No Boilerplate has been a really big eye opener for me over the last few months.

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Stacks for Simple Static Sites (fd93.me)
 

Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It's a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site's stack.