I basically went straight to using flakes when I switched from Arch to NixOS, so I can’t speak to channels.
I use home-manager as a NixOS module. It’s a bit clunky, but it works well.
I was told when I started to basically never use nix-env, so I don’t.
For development environments (I do both rust and python), I use https://github.com/the-nix-way/dev-templates
My config is here if you want something to work from https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config
I will continue to work to regulate oil and gas from within the government (my job), and I will do my best at that, but it is definitely not enough.
It’s important to take the easy wins where we can that will potentially slow the climate crisis while fighting for more. There is no reason we can’t do both.
To make life easier for yourself, I’d highly recommend running Linux on a separate drive. The Linux distribution installers I’ve used will install the bootloader on whatever drive you choose to install on, but the windows installer will use the storage controller’s port ordering to choose which drive to install on.
Your best bet is to simply disconnect the Windows drive when installing Linux and to disconnect the Linux drive when installing Windows, then just use the BIOS boot selection screen to choose which OS to boot into.
You can add your Windows drive to Grub and you might be able to add your Linux distro to your Windows bootloader, but keeping them entirely separate is probably best.
I preordered the new screen for my 2nd-gen. This is all great news!
I use porkbun for my domains, cloudflare for dns, ddclient connecting to the cloudflare api for dynamic dns, and traefik as a reverse proxy to send subdomains to their respective service.
The only part I have to pay for is the porkbun domain.
$8 for a year is a good deal, but be ready to switch when that expires.
Yeah, I tried it with hyprland and COSMIC. I’m currently using KDE, but if I get enough energy to configure hyprland on NixOS, I’ll switch to that. COSMIC wouldn’t let me use Steam, so I had to switch back to KDE. Tiling on COSMIC was really nice, though.
I run a DualUp as well. I love it
Stylix does change font colors on Firefox for me
That’s a non-commercial license. It’s not open-source, just source-available.
I use this Plano Rack System tackle box
Getting industry to cap the wells is a hard problem that is being solved, but more slowly than it should be. The problem is these wells were drilled and used when they were producing a lot by massive companies with lots of profits.
Then, when they were less profitable, they were sold to smaller companies with much tighter margins. Then those small companies can’t continue to operate them without losing money and they don’t have enough money to cap the wells, so they abandon them.
If we ask the smaller companies to cap the wells, they’ll go bankrupt, stop buying wells, and disappear. I don’t have a problem with this outcome necessarily, but it won’t get the wells capped because the companies will go bankrupt instead of paying and it will consolidate all oil and gas power to the big companies (close to the current state of affairs, for sure, but this would basically be absolute).
Ideally the big companies that drilled and used the majority of the oil from the well would pay, but mergers and acquisitions can often make that difficult.
For now, states are working to require funds be set aside ahead of time to pay for future well caps and are working to pay to cap abandoned wells directly, which is expensive, but could come from increased industry fees and taxes.
These oil wells are available because they are not profitable, and often because they cost more to run than they could possibly produce.
Once HedgeDoc 2.0 comes out with the “Explore” page, I’m pretty sure that will take over for Obsidian for me. I have played around with all the fancy features in Obsidian, I just don’t think I need the majority of them.
I just opened up Google Earth in Firefox to see what would happen. It’s buttery smooth with basically zero lag on loading assets, and zero lag zooming and dragging around on my 240Hz display.
I have a 1gbps symmetric fiber connection and I’m running NixOS. my Firefox Nix Home Manager config is here:
fair.
that’s unfortunate.
I have a 5800X3D and RX7900XTX and I play at 1440p on high settings. Glancing at Mangohud, I haven’t seen a dip below 70fps, and usually hover around 85-95.
It works out of the box on my Linux PC with AMD CPU and GPU, and has pretty great dynamic resolution, so it probably works great on the deck.
The game has functionality that does not work on the Steam Deck. Valve is completely in the right here. If the developers wanted it to get a rubber stamp from Valve, then they shouldn’t have made part of the game broken on Linux.
For me the reasons were:
I have a desktop gaming PC, a framework laptop, and a 2014 macbook air. Having one config that I can share between them makes maintaining all the systems that much easier.
Using Arch I would either be in two states, and NixOS works great for both:
I’m not using any specific computer very often and I just want it to work when I turn it on, and I need to not worry that if I go too long without updates I’ll break something.
I’m playing around with some brand new software which usually means installing unstable dependencies from the AUR, and rolling back or containing those changes is difficult, so I end up breaking something, and then updates become a huge pain until I need to just wipe everything and reinstall