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Ricing really loses me when it starts to actively harm productivity, I once saw a youtube short where the guy had his shell prompt display a 'human readable' version of the path that transformed to look like a sentence.
 
Akerman said:
Last time I used NixOS I went through all the trouble to set up all my stuff and learn the language, I had a git and everything. Nix was the only distro I hopped to that wasn't objectively worse than what I already used, and now that I know more, I think it could be better. Problem is I have my setup scripts already written for Arch, and if I needed to, I could very easily replicate a system too. I never really need to do that though; I prefer to have each computer be totally different. It just felt tedious having to rewrite it all for Nix and I ended up ditching before I finished it. Changing your flow is really annoying, and I suspect that is the reason many Linux nerds don't bother with NixOS. It's just too different. Kind of a shame tbh.


EDIT: I decided to finally try daily driving it again due to your post and I was met with this bullshit on the front page:

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*sigh* And the favicon too... It's all so tiresome. At least they didn't use the tranny / brown colors. the autism awareness colors do fit the distro.
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To be expected with Gay Month and the trannies that shout about NixOS. Whenever I see someone recommend NixOS it's either a professional or a tranny. If it's good, it's good though. I'll definitely give it a try and see if I can see myself using it

Agent Snigger said:
I once saw a youtube short where the guy had his shell prompt display a 'human readable' version of the path that transformed to look like a sentence.
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This is possibly the worst thing I could imagine, how the fuck does he handle getting to where he is? Just running `pwd`?
 
Geno Dolphin said:
My LMDE install is starting to bork itself, good time for little hopping, whats the least gay distro out there these days?
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LMUE. LMDE is nice but realistically it's still just a backup to the original linux mint, so there will be some shortfalls like a really old kernel.
 
Rust Troony said:
Linux native games usually get left to rot. I remember Borderlands 2 had a native linux port that was years out of date to the point you couldn't even play multiplayer with windows players, but using proton fixed it.
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Crunkle said:
I think that's more of a symptom of a wider issue in gaming/re-releases, but you do see Linux ports not working well even a few years after release. Not to mention the rate at which dev studios go under in gaming. https://www.myabandonware.com/ is a great place to see all of this. The 2014 - 2023 of Linux gaming was essentially seeing that Feral Interactive cat logo and knowing that you'd actually be able to play the game natively without many issues.
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I literally still have some of the Loki titles, on physical CD/DVDs, that I bought from an Electronics Boutique in the early 2000s (Simcity 3000, Heavy Gear II, Quake 4 and .. something else I think). Of course, none of them run. I haven't tried them in years, but last time I loaded them up, they complained about GLIBC mismatches. Some that had their own C libraries packaged in had tons of other stuff that were broken like opengl support. You can find instructions to run such old games in containers or chroots, but I didn't care enough to go down that route.

MacOS never got big for games because of the constant breakage every few releases. People had to maintain static software. Windows, most of the stuff from the 32-bit era will usually run. Some stuff breaks occasionally (try running the original Monopoly game for Win95) but it's amazing how much shit still runs today. Linux, without stable ABIs in a lot of stuff, has that issue too. It's not a big deal for open source software since you can recompile it or port it or containerize it, but for closed compiled stuff, you don't have those options.
 
I just ran another update and everything worked fine. Dolphin is even back to normal now. I guess it was just an issue with the packages and not something i did.

all the errors are gone from the previous update and gpgme seems to be fixed. This is what i get for enabling the extra-testing repo to get newer mesa drivers
 
Anyone having trouble with connecting to SMB shares in Dolphin?
On one of my machines running OpenMandriva with Dolphin 25.04.0, crashes when trying to connect to my SMB share on my Synology NAS. Otherwise it runs just fine.
My Gentoo machine with older Dolphin 24.12.3 connects just fine.
I am connecting by typing in "smb://<server-name>" which has always worked before and still does on my Gentoo machine with older packages. By trying the direct IP still causes it to crash.
It seems to be a new regression with the latest update but is anyone else having trouble with this? Or is it just me being retarded. I couldn't find anything when searching this up.
 
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Gotta pump those numbers up :smug:

argh.webp
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
Obviously screensaver won't work with Wayland. But a screensaver absolutely could work.
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No.

This is literally a direct consequence of the Wayland faggots and their 'no detecting input' policy. Also their hate for natural and aesthetic things. All Wayland devs should be killed.
GrimPortents said:
Oh, well, forget my previous post; running Dota 2 in Proton (GE) got rid of the issue. Seems their native support outside of X11 isn't exactly up to snuff.
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Yes, but noone with any common sense uses Wayland, so there's no reason to support it. Why would they natively support a crappier, inferior way to display graphics when X11, or a much less hacky way to do the job is available, like using a complete set of reverse-engineered fake Windows APIs through Wine or Proton?
 
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AI assistant integrated into the command line. Well uh, there it is.

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Oh, that’s neat. I can actually see a use case for this, like tldr or man for commands I don’t use often enough to have already learned. ”AI, which command do I run to view image metadata from these files?” ”You can use exiftool to do this. It’s not currently installed. You can run it temporarily using nix-shell -p exiftool —run exiftool”
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No.

This is literally a direct consequence of the Wayland faggots and their 'no detecting input' policy. Also their hate for natural and aesthetic things. All Wayland devs should be killed.
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Nonsense, I’ve got a screensaver running right now. In KDE set your Lock Screen to the shader plugin, then either select a preinstalled shader you like or go on shadertoy to download one (needs to be compiled, but that’s easy).
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Yes, but noone with any common sense uses Wayland, so there's no reason to support it. Why would they natively support a crappier, inferior way to display graphics when X11, or a much less hacky way to do the job is available, like using a complete set of reverse-engineered fake Windows APIs through Wine or Proton?
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It should still have worked using Xwayland.
And Wayland, perpetually incomplete as it is, offers several advantages over X11. For example significantly better performance for the ubiquitous compositors DEs use today.
 
Susanna said:
Oh, that’s neat. I can actually see a use case for this, like tldr or man for commands I don’t use often enough to have already learned. ”AI, which command do I run to view image metadata from these files?” ”You can use exiftool to do this. It’s not currently installed. You can run it temporarily using nix-shell -p exiftool —run exiftool”
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I'd have to see it in action, my concern is that you would describe what you want to do and it would automatically run the commands, which may or may not miss important context about your configuration and break things. Probably the biggest problem is if it doesn't keep track of the working directory and starts moving critical files to ~/ or somewhere unhelpful
 
SteamOS has potential to fundamentally change the OS landscape in my opinion. Everyone hates Windows, Linux is a pain in the ass and confusing, and Mac is expensive and annoying. Most people use their computers to use the browser and play video games, and SteamOS will supply those two features with less bullshit than any of the existing options right now.
 
Valve should roll their own chromium based browser and make SteamOS have a ChromeOS mode if users want it. You can still have a full desktop if needed, but for users that just want to play games and do internet stuff the browser os interface would be good enough.
 
Susanna said:
Oh, that’s neat. I can actually see a use case for this, like tldr or man for commands I don’t use often enough to have already learned. ”AI, which command do I run to view image metadata from these files?” ”You can use exiftool to do this. It’s not currently installed. You can run it temporarily using nix-shell -p exiftool —run exiftool”
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Yea that's kinda how I see it. As long as you don't do anything too stupid, it has plenty of potential for being useful, especially in a pinch.
 
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