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and various Linux distros have gotten so good at this now. You can install something like Bazzite, PikaOS, hell even CachyOS with their recent update of switching from Octopi to Shelly and you can be up and running within a matter of minutes without having to worry about drivers or fiddling around with settings. PikaOS for example is probably one of the smoothest linux installs I’ve ever tried. easily within 15minutes I can have steam open and downloading games. within 30 I can be playing. and that’s without downloading drivers or playing around with settings.

It’s almost as if Microsoft and every other hardware and mainstream software developer is secretly betting on the loss of private home computing.

You nailed it. This is what EVERY hardware and software company is hoping for, subscription based everything. Hell HP is already rolling it out on their laptops. If you don’t outright OWN the hardware and you’re using it on a sub then you don’t have any choice but to use Windows. RAM Shortages? who cares. if you and I can’t build our own PCs anymore than we have to sub a machine from Microsoft or HP or Dell or whomever. Those companies will ALWAYS get first dibs on RAM. And of course there’s going to be tiers to this shit. Pay more than the base sub price and you get access to the gaming tier meaning your machine will have a dedicated GPU for gaming. so on and so forth. this is the future these companies want and thanks to stuff like Netflix and Spotify we’ve now been conditioned to accept it.

Crazy that I called it earlier this month saying CachyOS would do well with using Shelly over Octopi and they did just that. https://piefed.world/post/1032659#comment_4717710

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honestly khronkite has improved a lot but their native quick tile isn’t bad if you’re ok with manual tiling.

FINALLY. once this is released I’m going back to KDE. independent desktops is what I’ve been asking for with KDE for so long.

the way I read it is this Raccoon guy A. sold the data to a single buyer but then B. also handed it over to have I been pwned.

looking at you Discord. hell also looking at you vesktop, equibop, whatever “better” discord client is out there. majority are just electron web apps.

I’m actually trying PikaOS for a week, I installed it lastnight. If you want something like Mint, easy to install as Mint, but focused on gaming then it’s a decent distro. It actually works very well with my specific asus laptop that has an AMD iGPU and Nvidia descrete GPU. It’s also improved my battery life over NixOS (which I think is just poor config on my part).

all that being said I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it. However it does seem to be the best distro i’ve used on this laptop, just works really well with it for whatever reason.

you’re not going to notice anything that’s going to knock your socks off but you might notice like slightly less stutter for fps drop for some things. It does depend on the game though.

I use NixOS with the CachyOS Kernel because I play EVE Online. It’s a game that pretty much requires you have multiple clients/accounts going at the same time. For me with the CachyOS kernel if I have 3+ clients open I notice a lot less fps stuttering/lag over say the standard Linux Kernel or even Zen.

At the end of the day, honestly, any distro can pretty much be made into a gaming distro. Stuff like Bazzite, CachyOS, PikaOS are just going to make it “easier” for you because they have stuff installed and configured for gaming in mind by default. easier setup. But unless you’re constantly monitoring benchmarks/your FPS then performance increases, if any, aren’t going to be groundbreaking.

NixOS is fun once it clicks for you. It’s nice having a system you can run your way, configured your way, and there’s really no wrong way. I mean hell you can have your configuration in javascript if you REALLY wanted to. you can have everything in a single configuration file if you prefer that or you can have things in individual modules and managed via a flake.nix. You can have all your various configurations for your DEs/WMs/etc in the .config dir or you can put them all in a single file or you can have NixOS manage the individual configs for you for easy backup.

I like that it’s extremely easy to reproduce the system and back it up. my system is backed up to a private git repo and if I need to rebuild my system on another PC it’s just a matter of installing NixOS and then cloning my system repo and then I’m on the exact same setup as another machine. Also because of this and with nix-shells it makes dev work a breeze. same exact setup every time so the old argument of “well it works on my machine” doesn’t apply.

All that being said I’m not sure if I’d recommend it to others. It makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard. But it’s one of those distros where you’ll switch from it for like a week or two and then miss it and want to go back. but keep in mind those weekly/bi-weekly switches are common. sometimes you’ll just feel like you’re spending way too much time configuring your nixos system so you’ll switch to like Fedora or something so you don’t have to think about it. Or you get frustrated trying to get something to work on NixOS so you’ll switch to Arch where everything just works. but then you’ll get bored of those distros and go back to NixOS.

It’s a never ending cycle. Thankfully NixOS takes all of 10-15min to reinstall and back to the previous setup.

I’m still not sure if I would recommend it 😂

sounds like a NixOS user to me! I’ve been using NixOS as my daily driver for the past several months and I’m not sure if I would recommend it. It makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard. I love the fact that I can very easily pass kernel params or gpu settings via my flake. that’s nice. that’s easy. I don’t like finding some random FOSS project I want to try out and then trying to determine what dependencies I need, if I have them all in my nix-shell, etc.

But honestly once you figure it out and set up distrobox on it you’ll never need to distrohop again because you’ll have everything on one OS.

Fish is now my go to shell on any system. I once was a die hard zsh/oh-my-zsh user but man running that combo on NixOS was a slog. But Fish has all the stuff I had to use plugins for with zsh right out of the box. faster too.

it’s not helping, they’re actually being set up to take the fall so to speak by Meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html

Meta is lobbying for all this crap and forcing it on everyone else (including Linux) with the only exception being…Meta. Google, Apple, etc will be in the same boat as Linux with Meta leveraging itself as the potential only “safe harbor”.

Linux has come a long way in the past few years. I only just started using it like maybe a year and half to 2 years ago and even since then I’ve noticed how much easier it’s become to use for an average user. Distros like Fedora KDE, Bazzite, CachyOS, etc have made the entire thing so much more user friendly. especially Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma which has also improved massively in the past year. Even the recent release of GNOME 50 is quite good and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t even like GNOME.

I don’t even remember 7 now. I know I had it I just don’t remember it. seems like after XP it was all downhill. I remember the shit that was Vista, but 7 and 8 I don’t remember at all. probably because they had such a short lifespan. 10 was absolute shit and 11 made me switch to Linux.

nope very easy. nothings broken as of yet.

It’s essentially Arch with a custom kernel and repos. That being said the Kernel and repos are REALLY good. very optimized. I use the CachyOS Kernel on my NixOS system and I use the repos as well as the kernel on a regular Arch system. If you’re a gamer then you’ll notice a definite increase in performance. the devs/maintainers of CachyOS are also very transparent and provide constant updates.

Now you’ll probably ask “well why not just use CachyOS itself?” to which I’ll say they pack A LOT of stuff into the distro most of which I just don’t need. It can result in a long install time, much longer than most distros. But if you want a solid easy to install distro right out of the box you can’t go wrong. They also support just about every DE and WM under the sun. Seriously when you install it they provide you with options for everything AND also provide you with custom configs for everything so you can say use Niri or Hyprland or whatever right away without having to do much if any further configuration. They also have configurations for shells too. They also have their own version of Proton which is quite good, I also use that. They also provide you with the option to have snapper/timeshift set up for you right off the bat so you don’t have to worry about rolling back if something goes wrong.

They also have a fairly new updating feature which I love. Basically it’s a version of pacman where anyone can use it/figure it out. Like other distros like Fedora or Debian it’ll notify you when there are updates and will walk you through the process of updating, providing you with recent Arch News while you update, then clear out orphaned dependencies and clear your cache for you. it’s really a very good updater.

Overall it’s a very solid and easy to use Arch based distro and a fantastic introduction to Arch.

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