And even then with nixos-rebuild switch you won’t really notice that you’re “rebuilding” anything

I don’t see any racist comments at all… A bit confused tbh, there’s just you and the other person explaining that LibreSSL seems abandoned.

Edit: The comments on Phoronix, now I get it

The Laws of Thermodynamics say you will always lose some energy to heat when energy is used to affect a change. I have to imagine this would be particularly so when energy is converted to matter since that’s very involved, but I’m not a physicist so I can’t confirm that.

Come to think of it, this means that industrial replication plants and shipyards would likely be incredibly hot places, due to the inevitable loss to heat in replicating massive components.

I’ve always thought this too. I understand clockwise/anticlockwise and the direction being defined from the top - but it’s a circle - no matter which way you turn, it spends 50% of the time going either direction. The phrase works with screwdrivers (especially ratcheting ones), but not so much spanners or Hex Keys IMO.

Congrats on expressing that in the most passive-agressive and gatekeepery way you could’ve. I’ve been using Linux for the better part of a decade now, and know my way around the usr dir - however things work a bit different on NixOS, whose package manager doesn’t involve installation steps beyond adding the word “helix” to my packages list. I’m not great at reading though, so I absolutely would’ve missed something as obvious as the Installation page 😅 As for your beliefs about postmodern Vim clones, what’s the point (and fun) in the freedom of choice Linux offers if I can’t install and try out the latest fun spin on an old fave from time to time?

Ooh, I’ll keep that in mind for next time, thanks!

Helix Editor did this to me. They have so much documentation on their site about how to use the editor, how to extend it, theme it, etc., etc. What they didn’t seem to document, though, is that the binary is named hx, not helix :/

Not to be all “it works on my machine” but like, it does. I’ve never seen or heard of any of these issues on a framework on Linux - using Plasma in NixOS in my case, and frequently using Picard, Spotify, and Firefox. Given they have official support for both Ubuntu and Fedora (Big Gnome moment), and have done in-house testing on both distros, as well as having Arch(?) and NixOS users on the engineering team, I think you might be looking at a problem in your own config rather than something innate to Framework?

Was ready to downvote but this is actually a really good guide, well done OP! The one issue I will raise, though, because I faced it myself, is that as long as you’re still using Windows, it is way too easy to just go back to using the Windows programs not the open source ones. Only through switching to Linux can you really “throw yourself into the deep end” and force yourself to learn these new things. Microsoft has made themselves the “path of least resistance” (or at least that of “most momentum” for a reason) and if you’ve been using a computer for a while, it’s a lot easier to break the habits and realise the benefits by giving yourself no other option than it is by trying to discipline yourself into using the new options.

Misread this as petaQ and I’m living for the image of a Klingon swearing at somebody because they don’t understand a “human” joke 😂

Trump pulling a nervous wreck version of the King from Hamilton…

“They say, Joe Biden is yielding his power and stepping away. Is that true? I wasn’t aware that was something a person could do”

Oh yeah I 100% agree, and IMO the lowness of that bar just strengthens my point. Even in the state that it’s in, nobody would suggest that Debian or Ubuntu was dying (except this guy, I guess, since he did so above) - so saying that Nix, which is so much more up-to-date, is dying is laughable. I really like the graph posted a little further up in the thread, actually, I didn’t realise that the difference was that massive!

You reckon? I’m on NixOS and it feels like we tend to get things ahead of a number of other distros - especially Debian- or Ubuntu-based ones.

Only if you want it to

Huh, yeah that’s really weird. Intel device, no Nvidia, capable enough hardware. Unless there’s a hardware module for your device that that you haven’t enabled in your configuration.nix (I had to do one on my Framework for a few things to work properly), I don’t know why that wouldn’t be working for you. Out of interest, how did you install steam? Is it in your environment.systemPackages, or did you enable it with packages.steam.enable = true; (or whatever it is)

Interesting, so it just crashes outright? Might I ask what your hardware is like?

Interesting… I’ve just been pressing the “play” button on Steam 🤔 Let me do some digging and see if there’s anything weird I might be doing.

Edit: Nope, confirmed, just pressing “play” in Steam using GE-Proton-9-9 works fine. Is there any reason you’re running it through nix-shell and steam-run instead of the Steam interface?

I’ve played Stardew with no configuration on my NixOS install a few times before, I think you might have something else going on there?

Ah great, that could be why a bunch of my photos didn’t get metadata. I’ll look into that, thanks for the tip.