I should probably add that I haven't really daily driven an immutable OS yet, so this isn't from extensive experience or anything.
I'm big on trying to keep my system separate from userspace and also making my environment as reproducible as possible. I enjoy using Ansible and Nix-based environments to get some degree of that in more traditional distros, an immutable system would give me an extra layer of predictability I appreciate. I'm also a developer, so I enjoy having containerized development environments, which lends itself well to a stable base I don't have to worry about. Plus, like you mentioned, updates being more solid and reliable, often reversible, is always appreciated.
That all said, I totally get that for your average user none of that may mean much and that's fair game.
I've been looking for an immutable, gaming ready distribution for a while and taking a closer look at bazzite it just might fit the bill perfectly! I don't even mean only for the deck necessarily, strongly considering replacing the Nobara install on my main PC and see how well it handles my NVIDIA card 🤔
Yup, same. I've been a developer for years and used to code way before that and to this day I can't write any non trivial bash script without looking up half a dozen of things lol, glad I'm not alone.
I've recently come across nushell, and it's everything I've ever wanted when it comes to shell scripting. It's not POSIX compliant so you can't just run it anywhere but it helps keep my sanity in personal projects and whatnot. See also, elvish, xonsh.
Plain DLSS definitely works, I'm guessing they mean that specific reconstruction feature. I'm sure it'll be implemented eventually if it's possible at all though.
Side note, a kind of related feature that is missing for sure from the Linux drivers is DLDSR, and plain DSR for that matter. As a heavy user of both, it's a bit of a personal deal breaker.
Yup, it legit changed how I think about interacting with a shell. I've always been kinda terrible at actually learning stuff like awk, sed and company on the long term without needing half a dozen Google searches before they mostly do what I want so actually being able to perform complex operations on whatever input on the fly feels incredible!
It helps so much with API development as well, I've been using it on a side project and having a built-in http client plus auto JSON parsing feels ergonomic in ways that just make me giddy lol.
Yeah, same. For now I just drop into old reliable zsh when I need to l but I love nu so much I might go ahead and look into coming up with the stuff I miss myself.
I just learned about nushell a few days ago and it blew me away. I've always wanted a shell that made manipulating data easier, and with my programming background the functional style just clicked instantly. Been daily driving it for a couple weeks, definitely recommend folks give it a go.
I'm guessing symlinking the compatdata folder to a Linux friendly filesystem, like Valve recommends here, would probably fix issues like that. I'm sure there must be edge cases but, in my admittedly not extensive experience, I haven't encountered any myself.
In my experience it works perfectly fine as long as you perform the steps outlined here, as per Valve's official recommendation. The section about preventing read errors is particularly important, but the whole thing is worth a read.
Same here, I avoid using Jinja if at all possible because I just hate blindly poking at stuff like that. I wish the YAML portion had schemas available for autocompletion when editing, at the very least.
Ansible comes to mind as something in a similar vein, I've been messing with it pretty often these days. At least here you do get robust autocomplete support and whatnot that eliminates a lot of the guesswork, although Jinja is always a bit painful lol.
I think so but this method does remove the quite significant barrier of having to figure out nix's language and quirks, so I'd argue there's merit to the workflow. Still, you're trading it for containerization know-how, so not necessarily the best choice.
The latest update straight from the developers claims everything is going to remain accessible, unless I'm missing something the posters there seem to be operating on older info.
Maybe take a look at cheap ESP mics such as the one mentioned here, being cheap so you can have many scattered around is their whole thing. Sound quality isn't great but if it's mostly for input it can work. Not sure if replicating the Ring notifications is feasible.
I'm not the pirate I once was when it comes to gaming but there's always EGS exclusives, games whose lack of regional pricing make them impossible to reasonably buy here, things like that. I'm a patient gamer for the most part so most of the time I can just get it a few years down the line but sometimes even that doesn't cut it. I avoid doing it to indie developers, but those are usually the few that follow Steam's recommended pricing guidelines so they tend to be fine anyway.
I pirate unbelievable amounts of tv and movies on a regular basis though through the *arr apps and whatnot, mostly because I refuse to pay for a dozen different streaming services with their rotating content and usually terrible apps. I self host whatever I can to avoid relying on the whims of a few corporations, and the one surviving service so far is Spotify.
Thanks for sharing, sounds like a really well executed project! I've been meaning to come up with one of those of my own to understand the whole thing better so I'll definitely take a look.
I should probably add that I haven't really daily driven an immutable OS yet, so this isn't from extensive experience or anything.
I'm big on trying to keep my system separate from userspace and also making my environment as reproducible as possible. I enjoy using Ansible and Nix-based environments to get some degree of that in more traditional distros, an immutable system would give me an extra layer of predictability I appreciate. I'm also a developer, so I enjoy having containerized development environments, which lends itself well to a stable base I don't have to worry about. Plus, like you mentioned, updates being more solid and reliable, often reversible, is always appreciated.
That all said, I totally get that for your average user none of that may mean much and that's fair game.