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I mean I haven’t noticed any real differences and the performance on both have been great. If you’re using CachyOS they’re in there by default so no need to install something like ProtonUP-QT to easily get the GE protons if you don’t want to.

absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.

CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It’s just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.

yeah +1 for Niri. I love it. in most cases I don’t even bother with workspaces anymore because of Niri, makes things easier and the vim nav is perfect. great documentation, it’s fast, and very easy to configure.

yeah CachyOS is my go to if I want to use Arch. great distro. If i’m not on NixOS then I’m on Cachy.

warez and IRC is where I started. There used to be IRC channels you could go to and get links to warez sites for stuff or simply share directly via IRC downloading. The people who were in college/university with T1 lines were the kings of that stuff at the time as everyone else was lucky if they were even on a 56k dial-up connection. I pretty much pirated almost every Dreamcast game via IRC OR via forums where people would burn stuff to a disc for you and then physically mail the discs to your house. I had a buddy that was in college half way across the country that would do this. download a bunch of stuff via his T1 line, burn the stuff to a bunch of CD-Rs and then mail them to my house, I remember that’s how I got Windows 2000.

I use Vaultwarden hosted on my private server. It’s great, will never use another PW manager. and yes it’s cached locally so you’re good. on PC, at least via the bitwarden CLI, you do a one time login and that’s it. you’re logged in until you tell it to logout, logs you in automatically on restarts and what have you. plus it’s very easy to access on whatever pc or phone you want to use. for pc you can just add the bw extension and have your passwords where ever or just simply login to your vaultwarden page remotely. this has been a life saver for me a couple times when I needed a pw for something but I wasn’t on my machine and borrowing someone elses.

maybe I’m just old fashioned or just simply old but I don’t get the new trend of using shells. Isn’t the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?

to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It’s just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I’m tiling, I’m going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that…why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?

Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don’t get it and I feel like it would slow me down.

what’s that say about you?

shouldn’t surprise anyone considering spez used to mod r/jailbait.

So wouldn’t surprise me if she and her husband were buddy-buddy with Spez at some point. she clearly is still buddy-buddy with someone in the admin team or higher or simply several reddit mods.

Reddit is a pedophile, facist, and zionist haven. If you’re still using reddit guess what? you’re having a pint of beer in a pedophile-nazi bar. get off it.

I could see them detaining you simply for having linux on your laptop. If they can’t navigate around it then you’re obviously up to no good. I don’t use a display manager and could see them cuffing me simply because you need to login to my machine via TTY and know which WM i’m using.

because not everyone in the country is under 16. So if you’re in your 40s and suddenly decide you want to start using tiktok or facebook then you have to provide proof that you’re not a teenager. which means providing ID or selfies or both to whomever they use to verify your identity. Now with that info they can now build a profile about what you do online. Also the issue that what happens if this info you’ve provided is in a data breach. OR they simply sell it to data collection companies.

they start making php forums and using IRC, hey i’m all for that.

the verification process. you could be 42 and never signed up for social media and now you decide you want to post comments on tiktok. Welp now you gotta verify that you’re not a teenager. So provide your ID, provide a photo of yourself holding your ID, and hope some company that is obtaining that information either doesn’t sell it or doesn’t have a security breach. and a bonus to all that is the potential to further track all activities you do online. they can now easily build a profile of you via the social networks you sign up for.

that’s the problem.

Went from dating the lead singer of an emo/rap band that was a Fall Out Boy side project to former Prime Minister of Canada.

Hey I kinda liked Gym Class Heroes.

what repo do you usually use for your Steam package? try a different one? try flatpak?

I don’t know but all I can say is last week I switched back to Arch and noticed a few programs I usually use the packages from like multilib were absolute garbage, just didn’t work anymore.

but it’s odd that it’s only No Man’s Sky multiplayer and your other games work fine.

you can still use reddit, just don’t comment on it. I run my own libreddit instance or use safereddit. problem solved.

I run my own instance. I’m the only Admin, I’m the only Mod, I’m the only user. I “ban” people daily. Of course it doesn’t actually do anything but It’s fun it just feels more gratifying than just blocking someone.

But yeah I’d never allow people to sign up for my instance, I don’t have the time nor desire to admin people and mods.

honestly it’s really not hard anymore especially if you use archinstall. everything is there for you, even sets up DEs/WMs for you now. The HARDEST part is remembering the commands for iwctl to connect to the internet. that’s it.

meh I’m Canadian and after reading this fuck Israel, fuck all Israelis, all of them. I don’t care anymore. Call me an anti-semite whatever I don’t care. Fuck that country, fuck it’s people. There’s zero redeeming factors for ANY of them.

With NixOS i’ll leave it for a week and go to another distro and then I think to myself “what am I doing? I can just do all this on Nix” and then I go back to NixOS.

On my NixOS I have a few destroboxes set up. One for Arch, one for Fedora, Debian, and Void. I use all of them for various things so I NEED to know all the quirks of various distros. So the knowledge I’ve acquired from the various Linux distros never goes away, I still use it all daily. Also, you’re right, your fear is valid not so much in a way you’ll potentially “lose” that knowledge but rather…you might get bored.

Arch bores me now. it’s too easy. NixOS is just so much more interesting and fun to tinker with. Like for example last night I put Arch on another machine to tinker with and already i’m looking to uninstall it. It’s boring. Nix has also spoiled me with knowing EXACTLY what’s on my system and having it all right there in front of my face. I enjoy version controlling it, tweaking it, making my configs cleaner, more effeciant. I don’t feel I get that on other distros. Sure there are tools to mimic the “feeling” of NixOS on other distros like The Black Don’s Dcli for Arch but it’s not the same and even he’ll admit it’s not the same and just end up back on NixOS. But now I’m just rantnig.

If you’re concerned about losing that knowledge of other distros do what I do, just set up a few distroboxes and use them for various applications. like for me Tabby isn’t packaged in NixOS and it’s been several months since the last person made an update on said package so I simply use my Arch distrobox to use it. There are some really niche .deb programs that either don’t work well on NixOS or don’t exist so I use my Debian distrobox. On the opposite end there’s stuff like Supersonic which actually works much better on NixOS than Arch so that’s an obvious choice. mix and match. build out a complete Linux Box with NixOS at it’s core. once you do…man everything becomes a breeze.