> > I'm trying NixOS on a laptop but I'm not that good at organizing things so > I will probably bounce off of it. I may try Asahi Linux on my m2 macBook. >
I only recently heard about NixOS. If I was still in the mindset where I enjoyed using Arch then I imagine NixOS would have been something I might have tried. There's also GNU Guix, doing something similar, but uses an existing language for configuration unlike NixOS which has it's own specific language. A criticism I saw was if you learn NixOS you learn NixOS, whereas, if you learn GNU Guix, you're learning Guile Scheme. I had a go at, but I never managed to learn any of those Lisp-like languages. Never figured out what I actually wanted to do with them. GNU Guix is also interesting due to not using the Linux Kernel nor Systemd. Probably not something I should investigate if I still want to play a Windows game through Steam with my NVidia GPU from time to time. > Snap is dead. Flatpak is being pushed hard. > I've avoided ever using both so far! Have been using a few AppImages, in the past I would have built the software, maybe even created an AUR package for it, but these days just chuck an AppImage into a BIN folder (not in $PATH) and symlink it with a short snappy name ie ~/BIN/lc for losslesscut ~/BIN/gf for gyroflow such that if I download a newer version with problems I symlink back to the older version. Otherwise it's the distro package manager all the way. Unless Python. Urghh. Pip. Or Pipx now. Seems to be stopping me from installing stuff I've had running for years Pipx say pip can't install pandas but pandas is installed by packagemanager. headbang. App-store-ification is an antipattern. If you've seen discussions of > "sideloading" software onto phones recently that just means installing > software you want to on hardware that you own without having to ask an App > Store for permission. The power of language etc. > > I am very wary of the "just bundle everything you need into a container" > model of software development that snap/flatpak are part of. It's going to > cause problems in a few years, not least by having the opposite effect of > the one it looks like it's meant to and making it only possible to target a > few consistent environments, like Gnome's. > > Mostly I just need a UNIX userland and something to run emacs and Firefox > on. Maybe I should switch to one of the BSDs lol. > > -Rhea. >
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