Sure it is…

Some people prefer to have a game mod manager working immediately, others prefer their system working for years instead of failing to boot after an update.

Literally the first sentence

screw using someone’s personal distro

And all 3 are anonymous…

Hahahaha it really does.

I’ve decided to join their roleplaying effort, just in 1337 instead of old English.

No, dd doesn’t.

I know, I’m just pointing out some of the “hidden magic”.

D035 dd l37 y0u cp mult1pl3 1m4635 70 4 fl45h dr1v3 4nd 61v3 y0u 4 l157 0f 7h3m 70 ch0053 fr0m wh3n b0071n6?

Lazygit and magit

It’s not just a reskin, the MX tools are really useful for beginners and non-technical people.

Currently installed using Ansible, because that’s more sensible than Bash for this imo.

What do you mean? It’s just a few lines to symlink everything for me.

You do realise religion is just an excuse?

I mean it’s a language specifically designed to be easy and quick to learn. Even if you don’t work with primarily, you’ll find it useful for stuff like cli programs, advanced scripts(instead of python), small services, etc.

It was either failing before grub or wasn’t in the list, I can’t remember now but I know rollbacks were not a possibility. If I remember correctly I had to reboot once after the install, then update, and then reboot once again to have the updated system boot.

This issue can happen with any distro, though rare.

I’ve used Linux for about 15 years, and that was the only time a fresh install crapped out on me.

Fedora is great, but it’s also the only distro I’ve had fail to boot after a fresh install and update.

Mint for sure. The slower release cycle is definitely better for nontechnical people, but show them how to install flatpaks from the app store.

Damn, the last time I used it I could’ve sworn it was just arch with a wizard and some custom dotfiles. Although that was like 3 years ago.

I never actually used archinstall, only manual and derivatives which were essentially arch with a wizard.

You can choose the de by clicking in the wizard

how to install arch (with btrfs and without frustration)

Download Endeavour and click through the wizard?

Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded?

It seems they’re not changing the default configs, but instead adding an additional config that’s actually usable straight from the box. example video

/facepalm moment for not thinking of that at the time

But it’s lacking organisation and modularity. For example let’s say you need programming packages on one device, gaming ones on another, and general ones on both. It’s pretty easy to set it up with hm, and you can disable specific modules when you don’t need them (for example you rarely need to use a certain language and supporting packages).

It’s pretty fast, especially if you don’t get into flakes right away. You basically just install nix with a one liner -> install home-manager through nix -> start adding packages to list.

Here’s a comment I made when I was starting out with basic instructions. Do note I’m now using this command for updates instead (updates hm, package definitions, and the packages themselves)

cd ~/dotfiles/nix/ && nix flake update && nix-channel --update && home-manager switch --flake ~/dotfiles/nix/