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  • If you’re going to use nvidia, don’t even touch wayland. Truly an awful experience.

    Bloat does matter it is extremely important, not because having a bunch of apps slows anything down or has any tangible impact in that regard. Because it isn’t as sexy as somebody’s hyper specific gentoo install compiled without some specific module.

    The reason bloat is such a big deal, particularly if you’re new to it, is because it’s confusing. if you’re trying to fix a problem that you have run into / possibly contributed to, a dozen different programs running in the background that you didn’t put there is going leave you frustrated and disenfranchised.

    Pick a modular distribution like Arch, take the loss that is your weekend putting it together and develop an understanding of how the pieces fit together. If you really don’t have time choose something like eg endeavourOS. ( or even Void is quite nice (but non systemd so less conventional))

    I would personally recommend avoiding something like fedora or Debian. They are both fantastic distributions that work very well. They are not good at teaching new users how to fix problems and that should be your primary goal here.

  • With AI looming, is there still space for new coders?
  • There’s hardly any work for programmers and there hasn’t been for years, I’d say over a decade.

    There is a massive demand for professionals, scientists and engineers who are tech literate and know programming.

    Go develop hard skills in some field and use programming to set yourself apart.

  • Nix/Silverblue users: How big is the advantage if you already have 100% automated your deployments via Ansible?
  • Well I tried Aeon for a month and it has been the least reliable system I’ve used since, well actually probably anything, like maybe vista I guess.

    The thing is a mess and it brings nothing to the table over A/B snapshots.

    The scales must be different for enterprise use because I’d never go near another immutable OS again after this terrible experience.

    Maybe it’s just flatpak that’s unreliable on Aeon, I found moving electron apps into podman containers was a lot better. But on void it was fine, clearly a lot more work to do the flesh it out I goes.

    Tbf SB had far less issues than Aeon.

  • Nix/Silverblue users: How big is the advantage if you already have 100% automated your deployments via Ansible?
  • I appreciate this is more asking about nicks, but I’ll offer some feedback on my experience with immutable distributions more generally.

    I took an adventure into silver blue and micro OS recently and I was completely unimpressed. It’s a novel idea from a good place, but it was the most incoherent and buggy experience I’ve ever had on Linux distribution in the past 10 years. Nothing walked reliably, and everything broke, I also found that trying to use anything other than the default gnome desktop was an exercise in futility.

    I need to clarify, I think it’s a great idea. In practice though, Both implementations, silver blue and micro OS, are really over engineered.

    I have adapted the ideas into my current install and I achieve the same thing with A/B Snapshots And a script that takes me from a base snapshot to my daily driver. Everything else exists in containers So bootstrapping up only involves half a dozen packages (iwd, node, nvim etc. ).

  • New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option
  • So Ubuntu, Ubuntu and unstable arch… here let me have a go:

    1. Fedora
    2. Tumbleweed
    3. Endeavour OS
    • easy install arch with extra repos, zfs and and dracut
    1. Bonus for the curious
    • void
    • Redcore Gentoo
  • The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse
  • Of course poor regulation can be bad, it was a silly question that was loaded. Look at, for example the 2002 tort reforms and the damage that did to public safety.

    Imagine how much damage could be done to individual privacy and freedom by an ill informed legislature if they elect to regulate gradient descent.

  • Are there any immutable distros meant for NAS systems or home servers?
  • Just use anything and set up a good workflow with snapshots.

    Have a “current” snapshot, rollback to it before using and then re-snapshot over it.

    Now your system is immutable in practice but you can still edit /etc to debug.

  • What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?
  • I couldn’t agree more with this, projects like artix are undermined by all the hard dependencies on systemd and Bash.

    Void attracted me because of the support for posix, runit and musl (plus good zfs support). It’s unfortunate that Arch doesn’t have that greater portability.

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