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  • Cosmic-comp is my second favorite after hyprland so far due to their tiling being quite well thought-out. The problem is, it’s part of a DE and is somewhat cumbersome to configure as a standalone compositor (can be fixed by patching libcosmic, tho), and also it’s quite bare-bones when it comes to features.

    Then there’s pinnacle which looks promising, but I haven’t yet tried to daily-drive it.

    Also, maybe qtile, which has a Wayland back-end.








  • fl42v@lemmy.mltoNix / NixOS@programming.devThe future of software is Nix
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    27 days ago

    Nix is typed: there are strings, paths, lists, attrsets, etc;

    Not sure what’s wrong with CLI, as I don’t really use it except nix flake update (although I remember updating stuff installed via nix profile being a bit cumbersome, but it’s not exactly a good practice to use it this way);

    Good point with cache, although stuff outside of nixpkgs sometimes provides their own caches which are trivial to enable;

    Nobody forces you to use github:nixos/nixpkgs, it’s just a regular input. Ppl quite often have their own forks. It’s also trivial to use stuff from outside nixpkgs (also just another input);

    There are different builders (e.g. buildGoModule);

    Idk where you’ve found toxic community, my interactions have been pretty nice so far (mostly matrix rooms);

    GUI is optional, just like for all the other package managers. And it exists: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nix-software-center

    Perfectly agreed with nix not (yet 🙃) being the best thing that exists, tho, albeit due to different reasons. For example, it’s a PITA to debug, and the error messages are sometimes unhelpful.






  • I’m not sure you can classify this as a failure, as explicitly prohibiting interfacing with non-agpl stuff would greatly limit the amount of stuff you can license under it, perhaps up to the point of making it generally unusable. As for “not like that”… Well, yeah. But you can’t deny it’s misleading, right? Free software kinda implies you can modify it whatever you want, and if it’s a free ui relying on a source-available middleware… Turns out, not so much.

    Although, a posdible solution would be require explicitly mentioning if you’re basically a front-end for something; but I’m not sure if it can be legally distinguished from the rest of use-cases.