NixOS, plasma rn but sometimes jump to sway. I’d say distro is more relevant. for the most part I just have an editor and a browser open, DE doesn’t change much about my workflow. NixOS definitely does though

chosen by my team, company at large doesn’t care but it’s nice for everyone to be on something consistent. company devices

NixOS is a nice balance of the two

I generally just copy my personal setup, which I’ve spent a decent amount of time on, but because I enjoy it

not particularly, but nix supports all of the big ones

language and stack a little bit, it’s all stuff that has good integration with nix. we deploy nix containers and then have consistent environment everywhere without having to work in a container. my team is a pretty standard team maintaining some full stack web stuff

I mean, I’m not a big fan of bash, the most likely default shell, so my advice would be to explore some alternate shells.

I am a little surprised completions aren’t working in bash by default, but yeah idk if it’s possible to get the cycling through suggestions. double tap tab and it should at least list the options though.

I’d recommend you hop between some shells and see what you like. most distros tend to keep the default shell pretty vanilla, the most change you’ll get is maybe zsh with some nicer defauls.

nushell is great and would be my first recommendation. everything is structured like powershell, but way less verbose and more emphasis on integrating the existing cli ecosystem than pwsh’s commandlets for everything.

fish or oh-my-zsh are things other people recommend. you don’t get structured data but they do give a better completion experience and other nice things

I want to like xonsh, and used it for a few years, but it has the same problems pwsh has with separate ecosystems of structured commands and unstructured text. if you’re a python person though I’d consider it too though.

there are other shells that have all the nice powershell things without the weird stuff (at least for not windows people), like nushell

although I wouldn’t be surprised if powershell was the thing that started the trend of better shells

yeah, if you bind ctrl c and ctrl v to copy and paste keys, you can get the same behavior in terminals and other apps that have weird default bindings for ctrl c and v for historical reasons

it is nice to be able to plug your keyboard into a new computer and have all your shortcuts and layout set up though. I do that so I have the same layout and shortcuts on my personal and work computers regardless of os

no, there are dedicated keycodes for copy and paste, and you can bind them to whatever

ctrl v is convention for paste, but plenty of things (ex terminals) use that for something else. this is a universal (wrt the app receiving it) keycode that means paste. it lets you bind a key, or a keyboard shortcut, to the paste key and paste in any app. without this it isn’t possible.

it doesn’t even have to be a new programmable keyboard. there exist software key remappers for linux.

you could remap a mouse button to paste, you could remap ctrl v to always paste regardless of the app, etc., all in software, all not possible before.

it seems like a new version of this kind of thing pops up often enough, but it seems like the people making them have never heard of AppStream. like I guess managing webapps too is unique, but everything else and more support AppStream, along with existing gui managers like kde discover, gnome software, etc

idk if 2 users is fair, it may just be my circles but I see nixos mentioned more than almost anything else on lemmy/hn/etc in the past couple years

the instructions for installing on not nixos https://nixos.org/download/

plenty of package managers have.

flatpak doesn’t require any admin to install a new app

nixos doesn’t run any code at all on your machine for just adding a package assuming it’s already been cached. if it hasn’t been cached it’s run in a sandbox. the cases other package managers use post install configuration scripts for are a different mechanism which possibly has root access depending on what it is.

alpine fits that, or derivatives like postmarketos

have you considered https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE plus https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm ? that’s basically an entire emacs userland

but if there’s a bug I’ll know exactly which line to look at

that doesn’t sound right, it’s so much smaller if it’s just one line

source?

but stability isn’t something that would drive a gentoo user away either.

a lot of the draw of gentoo from what I saw was being able to configure everything down to how it gets compiled. it’s simple to apply a patch to a package before it gets built or maintain a custom kernel config in nixos, as well as all the advantages of declarative os

podman works on windows hosts, as long as you don’t need windows containers

I’ve never used it but this one seems like the most complete currently, and it’ll tell you which tests fail.

even with cpu passthrough some things are still emulated. you can run a vm detector and see for yourself what tests fail.

it may not affect your games but others should still be careful since it is a real issue, and people do get banned for it.