juipeltje @ juipeltje @lemmy.world

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Mononoki for terminal, ubuntu for gui

If i had the funds for an oled, it would probably be still worth it to me. I'm personally more concerned about burn-in

The fact that it's not just using steamOS like lenovo is very interesting to me.

Man, i'm a NixOS user so probably also biased because i got used to the nix language, but legitimately all the parentheses in guix confuse the hell out of me lol

Yeah i'm not a doom player myself but i was surprised about it having so many problems as well, cause generally speaking i always heard people praise their pc ports for being extremely well optimized.

Yeah like other people mentioned, guix is great but in terms of how it works it's pretty much a libre lisp version of Nix, so you have to actually be interested in that type of system where you configure everything declaritively through a programming language. I personally use NixOS because i'm not really into the libre stuff, but i really love this way of configuring my system, but be prepared to spend months on learning and configuring depending on how far you want to take it. I don't know much about parabola, but if i'm not mistaken i thought it was similar to arch but libre, so it might be a better fit if you just want to use a more traditional linux distro that is also libre.

This isn't even a platform issue per se, windows user complain just as much about denuvo, allbeit for different reasons.

From what i've heard the game crashes a lot

I initially tried linux mint and ubuntu when i was like 13 on my laptop, which is almost 15 years ago now. At the time it wasn't because i hated windows, but my monkey brain was just interested in it because it looked so much different. After i realized that i couldn't just use all my windows programs like usual (and especially gaming wasn't nearly as good back then), i quickly went back to windows. Fast forward to 2020, at this point i had started disliking windows mainly because all of it's creepy questions when you install it, like wanting your handwriting information and all that, but at the same time i thought "well what can you do about it?". Then i saw the LinusTechTips video about trying linux instead of windows 11. This was the first time i had actually thought of linux again in all those years. The video convinced me to give it a try and i started with PopOS. After a few months i moved to arch cause i liked the idea of customizing my distro more from the ground up. Stayed with arch for 2 years, then i got the distro hop virus. Tried a lot of them, fedora, opensuse, ended up staying on Void linux for over a year in total. Now i'm using NixOS and very happy with it, and i think i'm finally settling down on a distro. I know LTT gets a lot of flack for how they handled the linux challenge, but if it wasn't for that initial video back in 2020, i would have probably never given linux another try. And with valve investing so much into improving wine and dxvk and all that, it was viable for me to switch as a gamer.

Nah you should probably stick it in your ass. Improves code quality drastically.

You must be a mac user then because it doesn't make any sense to have that criticism as a windows user lmao

Pretty sure it's mice for both, that's just the correct plural for mouse, and the computer mouse literally got it's name from the animal.

I've never made an arch package, but i did make a few void linux templates and nix derivations. I've never actually officially submitted them, just kept them in my own repo cause i wasn't sure if i was up for maintaining them. The void templates were pretty easy to learn, they have good documentation on their github. The packages that i made templates of were pretty simple so it didn't require too much skill or knowledge. It's basically a bunch of bash scripts/variables/funtions that automate the build process and builds the package inside of a fake chroot. Nix derivations were a bit more tricky, eventhough the packages i built were pretty simple, just like void, but nix is... well... nix lol. often times things are more complicated in nix, but i do like using it. The main reason i wanted to make my own packages is because i hate manually compiling stuff, and littering my system with build dependencies, so i felt like it was worth learning how to automate it. At the moment i'm also busy with setting up dwl (dwm, but for wayland), which is something i never thought i would do, since i try to avoid having to compile things, but nix actually makes it super easy to add patches and my own config.h through overlays and overrides, so it's been pretty straightforward so far.

For me it was a windows 11 update that caused my usb dac to just straight up not work. After finding an article about which update was causing it i could roll that update back and it wasn't hard to fix, but still, according to the linux haters this stuff never happens on windows lol

Had sound issues on windows too recently but sure lol. I guess linux and windows have more and more feature parity every day :p

I mean... nix has been around for like 20 years at this point lol

If you're not afraid to dive straight into minimalism/command line, void linux could be a good choice, especially if the laptop is 32bit because void still has 32bit repos.

The swastika fans is news to me. When was that?

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I hadn't heard of sudoedit before but that makes a lot of sense.

If this does actually end up happening, i wonder if this would be a good alternative for single gpu passthrough. As it happens my passthrough setup broke again this week, because it refuses to unbind my card for some reason and just hangs forever. It's the second time this happened and this time i can't seem to fix it. Since i'm kinda tired of these issues i'm thinking of just avoiding this vm setup entirely and see how much i can get working in linux natively. I was mainly using it for my quest 2 but from what i've heard alvr has improved a lot over these last 2-3 years, so i'll probably give that another try (couldn't get it to work when i last tried it years ago).