It's dystopian as can be, the health care system in my country was one of the best in the world but has taken a major hit recently because of stupid ass politicians. Still it's miles better than in the US and if I'm ill I just go to a doctor I don't think twice about it.
you have to set up the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable to take into account ~/.nix-profile/share
the desktop icons will only appear after a relogin though.
every package lists their dependencies through their hashes
different versions of packages have different hashes
when you launch an application it creates an environment with all its dependencies, this means that two applications that both use the same library at the same version share that library. However if they both require the same lib but not the same version of that lib they don't share it.
I personally used the steam card gift idea until I was ready to come out, it would have been odd for me to ask my parents for estradiol on my birthday lol.
If they trust you (I have no reason to think they shouldn't) they'll tell you on their own(do let them know you would be ok if they came out as gay/trans it helped me a lot), I don't think it's a good idea to assume those kinds of things.
Well the issue for me is internet speed, yesterday night I had to leave my pc on for two hours to update my flatpaks, I don't even have that many of them, but the updates were mostly drivers and runtimes.
Could you elaborate? I was under the impression that NixPkgs stored the hash of their dependencies and when launched create an environment to use them, this way two apps can share the same library when the version is the same.
In the case of NPM (don't know enough about the others) it's not a general purpose package manager, it's only for node related packages.
And yes I think ranking them is relevant Appimages are pretty terrible security wise(let's download random executables on the internet yayyy!), snaps are getting better but used to be really terrible and to be fair NixPkgs aren't that safe either.
Flatpaks are pretty secure, they work well, the stack is fully open source and allows you to host your own flatpaks repos, as well as manage sandboxing parameters. If only they were lighter I could easily see them become the "Linux executable format"
IMO yes but it might not be an issue for you, flatpaks work like windows standalone executables where each app brings all their dependencies with them, the advantage is the insane stability that method provides, the downside is the huge size the app will ultimately take, flatpaks are compressed and they don't really bring all their dependencies with them (because they can share runtimes) but the gist of it is a flatpak is usually much heavier than a system (.deb .rpm .PKG) package.
If you are ok with tweaking I recommend nix pkgs as they work on any distro and only take slightly more space than system packages. I have a terrible connection and low disk space, flatpaks aren't something I can use on the long run.
Oh and if you're wondering flatpak >>>> snap > appimages (IMO)
At the end of the day it's how you feel, I think it's completely normal for people to wonder what living as the other gender must be like, before I discovered I was trans I was a bit obsessed with it.
Oh yeah same! Also I use voyager, I used to use jerboa but it has a few bugs and I didn't come back to it...