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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.world•Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases reportEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I mean, they do have the infinite money glitch, a.k.a. being owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft’s investors think Fallout 5 will make its money back, it’s more lucrative to get started on it sooner rather than later.

    And it does also need to be said that they can’t keep remastering Fallout titles forever. They need to develop a new title at some point.

    Bethesda Game Studios has so far always only had one game in development at a time, which should be TES6 right now. If they are working on Fallout 5, we’re likely talking pre-production stages. So, it might very well be the case that the two remasters come out in roughly equal spacing before Fallout 5 comes out in a few years.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I feel like setting up a new machine is just the easiest to explain.

    Personally, I find dotfiles messy, as you often just want to change one or two settings, but you always carry along the whole file with all kinds of irrelevant other settings. This also makes it impractical to diff two versions of those dotfiles, especially when programs write semi-permanent settings into there.

    I guess, your mileage will vary depending on what programs or desktop environment you use.
    For example, I love KDE, but they really don’t do a good job keeping the config files clean. Nix Plasma-Manager generally fixes that, and for example allows defining the contents of the panel in a readable form.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Personally, the stepping stone I needed to know about is Nix Home-Manager, which basically allows you to manage your dotfiles independent of the distro. From what I understand, if I do switch to NixOS, I’ll continue using this code with just some minor tweaks.

    But yeah, I agree with the verdict in the post. I like it a lot, but I would not have made it past the initial learning curve, if I didn’t happen to be a software engineer. Sysadmins will probably be able to figure out how to put it to use, too. But it’s just not for non-technical Linux users.