He didn’t. He wanted freax or something dumb. Someone talked him into Linux.

Bots in the build up to the election here in the states?

You know what makes my Linux distribution perfect? My windows partition that I can switch to quickly.

This might help:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263166

And green. All associated with the more popular variants pfsense, opnsense, truenas, and freebsd.

Data truly is beautiful

Probably have a porn and PC game filter to thank for my career in IT

Wait so people got butthurt that a company made a deal with nix. That company also does business with ICE. And people are mad at Nix?

What am I missing?

Also companies and open source entities do business with all manner of government(s) all the time.

Zero trust has entered the chat

Why not both?

Let’s say MS charges $5M a year.

Their support contract, assuming they get one, for libre office might be $1M.

They could still invest another $1M in OSS and still save $3M

A $1M net gain for OSS and a $3M savings for the govt.

Assume yes until you can prove otherwise.

Why? Having used all three, currently using all three in some capacity…I’d put them in order of Linux, Mac, then windows. At least with Mac you have a *nix like system with things like zsh, coreutils, homebrew, and iterm2. You can even set up tiling window managers.

Not to mention they are fantastic pieces of hardware and if you are doing any dev work with AI/ml the metal cores are sweet.

Respect for the apology and edit.

Nix is the vim of package management but without good documentation. So it’s incredibly powerful and useful once you get into it, but imagine trying to learn vim without any docs or guidance. Vim has a steep learning curve with good documentation, YouTube tutorials, blog posts, and forum guides.

Nix doesn’t really have a wealth of that.

That’s nix package management and nixos in a nutshell.

Most people get their flatpaks from the same handful of places though, right? Flathub and ??

This isn’t a snap specific issue is what he is saying. It could happen to other stores.

Also, my snap nextcloud is amazing and was the easiest to set up and maintain.

I’m over here just wishing tmux copy and paste made any removeding sense.

Typically you keep you /home on a separate drive or partition. Your /root and /swp are on others. When you install the new OS you do custom partitions and mount options install the OS on the root then mount /home to your home partition/drive.

You’ll still have to install the applications again, but all of your configs and history is still there. It feels surreal the first time you do it.

Fair point

I get that you have the choice at install on debian which is nice, but the flavors and choices of Ubuntu (eg kubuntu ) are super readily available when making your install media. And I unless you are making it a game time decision as you go through the installer, which I doubt most people are, this seems like an incredibly trivial distinction.

Lmfao

Are you using the amdgpu ?