You might as well create a topic for all contentious topics relating to Linux, like systemd, X11 vs Wayland and other eternal slapfights instigated in the name of the ages old doctrine of divide et impera, because when everyone is fighting about the fundamental elements of the OS, no real work is being done on it, therefore it doesn't endanger corporate interests by giving consumers a good free alternative. You could probably write up a ton of examples like that.
Is NixOS worth the hype? Seems like everyone that uses it eventually becomes a fan if they can get past the initial setup part of the install
If you don't mind tinkering with a couple nix files, then I would say so. There's a bunch of flake templates on GitHub, but eventually it starts to make sense the more you look at it. There is a bit of a steep learning curve compared to the average Linux distro, but you set it up once and make gradual changes to it. Flakes from a git repo are arguably more foolproof than the BTRFS snapshots I was using on EOS. If you use VSCodium like me, then using Alejandra and the Nix IDE plugin will properly format your nix files for you.
They're all in a weird state where they're not really immutable but they're restrictive enough to annoy you.
Yeah I expected that since
>Using Kali as a daily driver
Can't say that I have. I thought Kali was for phones and tablets?
Kali as a distro is purpose built for penetration testing, security assessments/auditing and red team work. You can install it on a phone or tablet sure but it's retarded to do so
Oh I was thinking of KaiOS sorry
Works perfectly for really wierd situations, I've been basically wanting to min-max my install lol
That guy is wrong. Document your fucking code. If I have to expand macros by hand because some luddite wanted to be a gatekeeper I'd find out where he lives and burn his house down. In Minecraft.
Can concur i3 is great. I'd never use it over a normal DE for daily usage but it makes me feel a bit like a hackerman having all the windows laid out like that with no traditional DE.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when Kali Linux was formerly known as Backtrack.
I gotta hear about that. What did they say?
I tend to document things a bit sparsely. Not saying that's right but if I think that something is really not obvious from the get-go I will put detailed comments near that section. Nevertheless, to a certain extent I like code that explains itself well, which is why I like Python so much.
YEARS ago I used ratpoison, another tiling WM. These days I can't be fucked to have to make certain changes just so that I can have functioning tray icons and accordingly I use Xfce4. The amount of productivity lost intermittently switching between windows with a mouse is most likely extremely negligible and I say that as someone conscious of the gains to be had from using the keyboard almost exclusively in Vim.
Maybe if you are a professional pentester or something. Even then you'd probably be better rolling your own. But I'd imagine a lot of users just use it because they're skiddies and it's all preinstalled.
The basic summary is they preached it as the "most secure distro" to use, quite confidently stated every other distro was a waste of time, and "no other options hold a candle to Kali". It took all my self control to not laugh in their fucking face but I'd barely been on the team a full month and wasn't keen on getting written up for """"bullying""""" given I actually like having a job. One of these people is some drooling tard who can't configure an azure VM correctly, can't script or program if his life depended on it and to top it all off, this exceptional individual has actioned multiple major changes within the business without approval that quite literally crippled more than one high priority client environment. Yes he caused multiple major incidents, yes he doubled down on it. I'm genuinely amazed he hasn't been sacked from the amount of shit he's cocked up.
Nah even then a professional who actually knows their shit will keep an ISO of it on a USB and boot into it on a designated laptop or use it in a VM within a secure environment where they can destroy and stand it up as much as they need. If it really needs to stay in place and USB booting isn't an option it'll be installed on a separate, isolated machine for bidness purposes, then they'll daily drive something else on their personal hardware. When I say daily drive I'm talking casual activity that has nothing to do with work, so vidya/music/shitposting etc.
That is some real pajeetery even if they aren't actually pajeets.
