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71·6 days agoI’ve been doing almost all of my gaming on Linux for 2 years now, running a 5800X3D and an RTX 3080.
Why the “almost”? I love to fly flight simulators, mostly DCS World, in VR and am still using an HP Reverb G2 (Windows) headset.
Everything else works without issues on Linux for me. I’ve been sitting on Pop!_OS 22.04 but if I were to install today, I’d go for Linux Mint
Hoezo joodse zaal?
(Dieses sieht aus wie ein Niederländischer Deutscher der zu viel Bier getrunken hat, was für ein Dialekt ist es wirklich?)
14·16 days agoThere is a reason why NixOS was invented 21 years ago. Reproducible builds are not simple in most
packagingbuild systems.
And at your next job, at an employer who sees the value of FOSS and a nerd with strong Linux-fu!
These days, I’d feel a little bad having a regular payment […] I don’t need any financial support to keep doing this, I’m lucky enough to not need financial support […] The absolute best way to “support the comic” is to introduce more people to it […]
Wonder where you got that idea for Konsi’s personality from 🤔
2·1 month agoHonestly, k8s + GitOps at home is my project that I’m just starting this week. I found a community around it (on Discord 🤮) called Home Operations.
Docker Hub sucks and is VERY strict with rate limits. Try ghcr.io or the aws container registry.
GitOps + Renovate
Gives you:
- automation of updates
- smart notification of updates that are below a certain confidence that it won’t break stuff
- rollback: simply
git revert - the whole shebang
Some stacks that work well with GitOps are:
- k8s + Flux or ArgoCD
- Nix(OS)
Mixing them is a LOT of complexity though. Just pick whichever you are most comfortable with. If you want a declarative immutable OS just for running k8s, check Talos Linux.
If you don’t want to deal with GitOps, Nix or k8s, and you don’t need recent versions, just run Debian and set a cronjob for auto updates. Then only deal with potential breaking changes just once every 5(?) years or thereabouts.
How to call
xargsis typically one of those things I always forget. The foreach alias is a great solution!My current solution was to use
tldrfor all of these tools, but yeah if I find myself having to do a for each line, I’ll definitely steal your alias.Luckily (knocks on wood) I almost exclusively work with yaml and json nowadays so I should just learn
yq.
The closest to Mint in terms of:
- stability: only have breaking changes once every 6 months
- just-works-factor: shipping drivers and whatever proprietary code is necessary to have a smooth out of the box experience
That I know of, beside maybe OpenSUSE (have no experience with it) is Kubuntu 24.10. Yes apt will say weird things and you’ll want to uninstall
snapd.But Kubuntu 24.10, current latest, ships with Plasma 6.1. Current stable, Kubuntu 24.04 ships with Plasma 5 still.
But I assume you’re not a fan of the rolling release model like EndeavourOS (Archlinux based, KDE is the default). So if you want recent packages AND a versioned release model, that leaves only Fedora out of the distros I’m familiar with. They recently promoted the KDE version from a Spin to a full version beside the GNOME version.
But Fedora is much heavier on the FLOSS philosophy, and not as works-out-of-the-box as Mint or any Ubuntu flavor.
Debian isn’t, but it will take a long time for Plasma 6.3 to make it to Debian stable.
So yeah, I guess OpenSUSE may be your best betEDIT: took a quick look, there’s a rolling release model of OpenSUSE called Tumbleweed. But you probably don’t like rolling release. And a versioned one called Leap. The current latest Leap version still ships Plasma 5 so that still isn’r nearly as recent as Fedora, which has had Plasma 6 in the last TWO versions.
The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am.
Top-tier sentence right there. Very well written, it just keeps getting better (or worse, for you)
@Telorand@reddthat.com, I second starting out with Home Manager on your current Linux or Mac. It’s a great way to learn all about Nix, while keeping the option to move back to a shell that is not managed by Nix and having the option to go back to a shell that is not managed by Nix (I had zsh in Nix, and Bash native) and still being able to boot your pc when you mess up in Nix.
The real advantage, as @BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz said, is in being able to use recent packages on any Linux and MacOS. Home Manager gives you that. I first started with a basic Home Manager config, then learned about the Nix language using some simole puzzles (the first Advent Of Code days), then the module system, finally flakes so I can use packages from 24.11 stable in Home Manager on top of other Linux OSes.
This way I could take it step by step instead of the rocket jump that OP did. Hats off btw @BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz , you provide amazing value with your nixos plan!
2·2 months agoIt is. Very atmospheric, and I’m sure there’s a whole lot more depth to things like combat and crafting if you’re interested.
For me it’s just an easy and accessible story RPG. The text-based dialogue and turn-based mechanics make it ideal for on the road gaming IMO. You can look up from your screen or suspend and drop the Deck into your bag at any point.
The writing is great and the game feels much, much, much more fluid than the actual old games it is based on. A lot of love and care has been put into this. It’s very affordable and the most battery-friendly game I’ve played. So when you start up your Deck on the train and only have 15% left, this gives you much more enjoyment per battery charge than anything else.
Full disclosure: I happen to know the artist who did the character art.
- Skald: Against the Black Priory
- Mud Runners
It’s not just about speed, but also (battery) efficiency.
Even if you don’t notice the speed, if you are working on anything but a modern expensive laptop, you will notice the difference in battery draw between:
VS Code > NeoVim in traditional terminal > Neovim in Alacritty or Ghostty
After years of fighting
pipandconda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.NuGet seemed just as bad.
People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!
A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.
This metaphor is great.
Linux is much better organized than Windows.
Is more prevalent in IT
The general population does not understand it at all (if we exclude Android).
The entire tech sector would collapse if Linux were to disappear.
81·3 months agoStop it!
Now!
I said DON’T STRESS!!
Welcome to Lemmy @destviz@lemm.ee !
What even is an actual cornball…? Genuine question. Never heard of it.
Of course mass surveillance existed long before the US had a fascist president, no one is implying that it didn’t.
It’s just that fascism is a great reminder why no government should have as much power to invade in privacy as the US has. Especially for those who are not subscribed to this community and forgot about that, so share this with them!