Idk why you are being down voted it’s true. It was a plasticity nightmare. And I don’t understand how people liked the track pads. There’s a reason a carry a mouse with my gaming laptop because there’s no way I’m going to play a fps with a track pad

Nix because I have a bad memory and hate doing things more than once

Tbh you’re probably right if you want something straight forward just stay with Debian. If your feeling adventurous and don’t do any gaming try FreeBSD

The gnome on screen keyboard feels lacking to me, there’s just something up with the user experience that puts me off

Gnome on Nixos I like how standard it is I know what to expect

I jump shipped to arch when I first started out. But I had experience with Linux vms for school already

A mistake

I mean is there any really reason though, they both run on the same subsystem and they aren’t doing anything crazy

There’s little to know customization outside extensions which are very powerful but prone to breaking. The gone mindset is to support basically one workflow and to make changes as it needs fit regardless of stability. Personally I like this, it prevents things from getting stuck in the past. Plus I’m not one for extreme desktop ricing.

Edit: also I’m a huge fan of declarative systems like nix, and with little to no support for layout config outside of their GUI tool it introduces and unknown variable for me

I mean if it’s goal was to prevent scripts from using the graphics env maliciously then it seems to have made some progress if you can’t even automate it with good intentions

So… it’s harder to maintain

Double this, nix has entirely changed my perspective on what I should expect from software and my operating system. It’s so rock solid and roll backs are easy. Reproduction with all the customization you could ever want with incredible transparency.

Usually you need to patch some stuff as a lot of the hardware doesn’t have mainline support. For the mango pi I found this

https://github.com/boosterl/awesome-mango-pi-mq-pro

The nixos link there works but it’s a bit out dated

Running into this issue with nixos and the mango pi bored currently lol

Every tool has its job. Why should a TTY terminal emulator also be a image/pdf viewer?

Never be afraid to try different distros you can always wipe and try again. You won’t break your computer. I’m a big fan of immutable distros but I’ve never tried fedora blue. Either will make a rock solid system

Super grindy

Camel case for short names snake case if it starts getting hard to read

Sounds like you need nixos

Nix apps are not sandboxed and you have no control of what resources they have access to or don’t, unless you wrap them with some other program