And even then with nixos-rebuild switch you won’t really notice that you’re “rebuilding” anything

I don’t see any racist comments at all… A bit confused tbh, there’s just you and the other person explaining that LibreSSL seems abandoned.

Edit: The comments on Phoronix, now I get it

This may be an unpopular opinion, but NixOS. It has package up-to-dateness comparable to (and sometimes better than) Arch, but between being declarative (and reproducible) and allowing rollbacks, it’s much harder to break. The cost is, of course, having to learn how to use NixOS, as it’s a fair bit different to using a “normal” Linux distro.

Look up “Commonality”/“Commonality Sol” (theme), “Reactionary” (theme), and “GNUStep” (icons) on the Plasma theme library, I think you’ll find some stuff you like. Also, in Plasma Settings’ “Window Style”, select “MS Windows 9x”.

My laptop looks very similar to this, running KDE Plasma 6.1, so yes, yes it is.

You know? Doesn’t look like it’s quite there, but it’s the closest I’ve seen by far, I’ll have a good look I think! Thanks for that!

Edit: Tempo has Podcasts, Symfonium does not. Time will tell, but that may be the feature that pushes me over the edge.

Symfonium. There are plenty of music apps, and I’ve used a lot of them, but none combine the UX and functionality that Symfonium offers to anywhere near the same quality :/

Was ready to downvote but this is actually a really good guide, well done OP! The one issue I will raise, though, because I faced it myself, is that as long as you’re still using Windows, it is way too easy to just go back to using the Windows programs not the open source ones. Only through switching to Linux can you really “throw yourself into the deep end” and force yourself to learn these new things. Microsoft has made themselves the “path of least resistance” (or at least that of “most momentum” for a reason) and if you’ve been using a computer for a while, it’s a lot easier to break the habits and realise the benefits by giving yourself no other option than it is by trying to discipline yourself into using the new options.

Oh yeah I 100% agree, and IMO the lowness of that bar just strengthens my point. Even in the state that it’s in, nobody would suggest that Debian or Ubuntu was dying (except this guy, I guess, since he did so above) - so saying that Nix, which is so much more up-to-date, is dying is laughable. I really like the graph posted a little further up in the thread, actually, I didn’t realise that the difference was that massive!

You reckon? I’m on NixOS and it feels like we tend to get things ahead of a number of other distros - especially Debian- or Ubuntu-based ones.

Huh, yeah that’s really weird. Intel device, no Nvidia, capable enough hardware. Unless there’s a hardware module for your device that that you haven’t enabled in your configuration.nix (I had to do one on my Framework for a few things to work properly), I don’t know why that wouldn’t be working for you. Out of interest, how did you install steam? Is it in your environment.systemPackages, or did you enable it with packages.steam.enable = true; (or whatever it is)

Interesting, so it just crashes outright? Might I ask what your hardware is like?

Interesting… I’ve just been pressing the “play” button on Steam 🤔 Let me do some digging and see if there’s anything weird I might be doing.

Edit: Nope, confirmed, just pressing “play” in Steam using GE-Proton-9-9 works fine. Is there any reason you’re running it through nix-shell and steam-run instead of the Steam interface?

I’ve played Stardew with no configuration on my NixOS install a few times before, I think you might have something else going on there?

Ah great, that could be why a bunch of my photos didn’t get metadata. I’ll look into that, thanks for the tip.

Ooh, might look into that instead, actually. I always love a reason to write myself a little tool, but dealing with Google’s bull makes it much less appealing to me when existing tools can do it for me.

Just gone through this whole process myself. My god does it suck. Another thing you’ll want to be aware of around Takeout with Google Photos is that the photo metadata isn’t attached as EXIF like with a normal service, but rather it’s given as an accompanying JSON file for each image file. I’m using Memories for Nextcloud, and it has a tool that can restore the EXIF metadata using those files, but it’s not exact and now I have about 1.5k images tagged as being from this year when they’re really from 2018 or before. I’m looking at writing my own tool to restore some of this metadata but it’s going to be a right pain in the ass.

I mean, it’s been shown that it’s relatively easy for a big company to control the price of Bitcoin, and there’s nothing more capitalist than wanting to get away from the control of countries and states that might get in the way of making as much profit as possible so, yeah no I’d say hypercapitalist is a valid accusation. Bitcoin was designed to beat the big banks and capitalist status-quo, but I don’t think that we can pretend it succeeded anymore.

BTW modern KDE still has this as a module and it works pretty well with both Qt and GTK programs (though with GTK it sometimes shows it in both locations).

If I had to guess that’s gonna be a quirk of ActivityPub, and should self-resolve in a little bit, but I’m not an expert so don’t take me at my word there. I have some experience self-hosting setting up my own homelab over the last 2-3 years - if you’d like some “getting started” conversation, feel free to send me a DM or contact me on Matrix @darohan:tchncs.de