I generally would for desktop use, and absolutely wouldn’t rexommend them for a new user.

Agreed, flatpaks are great for desktop apps. I use Nix for the majority of my packages, but I use flatpak for proprietary for the sandboxing.

What does uBlue switching away from it have to do with someone wanting to install it on Silverblue?

Nix is useful for CLI packages, which aren’t very simple to use through flatpak. It also has far more packages, and is very useful for creating development environments.

I see, I only use distrobox for building software that doesn’t easily run on NixOS, so that likely shouldn’t matter too much for me.

I have never heard of toolbx before, can anyone share how it compares to Distrobox? I’ve been using that for some time.

It also says they’re going to be using Framework laptops which is equally cool!

ah I may have mixed its behaviour up with kate

gedit uses polkit and should prompt you with a password when modifying a file that needs root priviledges. you shouldn’t have to run it as root

They didn’t enforce it on an unrelated project, they enforced it on Vaxry, an FDO contributor.

Absurd take lol. Every organization needs a code of conduct and someone to enforce it.

Its a video sharing his opinion on the topic. If you just wanted to know what happened he linked all of the articles…

4Chan is obv worse, as was said in the video, but the discord can be pretty obnoxious. Just a lot of humor you’d expect from the average middle-schooler.

not exactly the package manager itself, but I have a command that runs whenever I rebuild my NixOS system that shows a nicely formatted list of every added, modified, and removed package.

no problem!

Barrier hasn’t been updated in two years, so I wouldn’t expect that to happen. Input-leap is a fork that is maintained and updated, and has had wayland support added.

1. NixOS can run binaries well using nix-ld or nix-alien, those will work for the large majority of software. If you run into any trouble, you could always use distrobox as well. Some of this software will also likely be packaged in nixpkgs or other repos.
2. You should be able to build binaries the same way you can on other distros
3. GPU pass through works the same on NixOS as other distros, but parts of it will need to be configured in your systems configuration, which may be a bit complex, especially if you’re new to the Nix language. Here’s a good article on setting it up.

the non AI features of warp, such as the modern editing and easy function creation, are more interesting to me than the AI features. I wish there was an open source terminal that felt this modern.

I have used AI to generate commands many times, but not often enough that I need it built into my terminal. I prefer my default terminal experience be more minimal.

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nix flake init -t templates#python sets up a nice environment using poetry.