NIXos is a cross-platform package manager for Unix-like systems, and a tool to instantiate and manage those systems, invented in 2003[6] by Eelco Dolstra.

Nix Original author(s) Eelco Dolstra Initial release June 15, 2003; 22 years ago

From Wikipedia.

Its been supported since the early 2000s.

I see and I’m going to check some of those out. There’s so much software in the open source world it’s hard to keep up, identify what is used for what.

I use conky for most stats on desktop, the default editor, default cinnamon terminal likely gnome, I’m going to look into the waybar though to see if it fills anything different that conky. I’m unsure why someone would need a window manager instead of tiling or dual monitor. Perhaps I don’t fully understand or I’m missing out on something, I’ve seen a lot of posts recently talking about window managers.

I use my PC fairly traditional. Nixos running cinnamon, I’ve tweaked it a bit but nothing outrageous as that’s when shit breaks or you go error hunting more often than I care too. My moving to nix was graduation from mint looking for even more stability through immutability and cutting out system drift with impermanence. I swap hardware as deals come along, so nix allowed for the most customization and ease of backups. Much more friendly for swapping hardware than a traditional OS.

I do the same thing. Keep multiple profiles and just run sandboxed play services. It works fairly well. The only exception to not having play services is if you allow the app to run unrestricted in the background to always stay connected and fetch notifs. But it does drain battery 10 to 15 percent for just signal throughout the day depending so I can imagine it grows as you were to do that with more and more apps.

Only certain apps require play services, aurora store itself requires no play services. Just the potential for the apps you are trying to use. I’ve used F-Droid and aurora for years.

Aurora store front end works fine no Google account needed.

I run Nix but never heard of Hyperland, ghosty, neovim, rofi, waybar? What are those? Extensions or programs?

Do you run it impermenant? Or traditional Nix style? I been thinking about running NIX with impermenance and then persisting all the important files so I can hardware swap, or just keep a lean, clean, more secure, self maintained system over time.

I’ve used clonezilla a bunch, I keep it on a flash drive as I’m always swapping hardware for myself or others or family. There’s issues. It’s as close as one could get to a carbon copy but there sometimes can be flaws that aren’t present in its checks. I find them to be random but possible. It’s fantastic software though. Amazing even.

*most of the time. And test backups to make sure they really work or you have no true backup.

Tailscale the end.

The syntax is cake but your point is entirely valid. If your config is commented and plain. There’s not much of learning curve. I came from windows to mint, now to NIX. I did a full custom install luks, all my apps and settings pretty much loaded, settings and all, from my mint machine to make the transition easy as I could. Damn near like I never left and even more so now that I have backups, systems in place and working on impermenance and using a golden USB to boot my machine from any device, anywhere. Once I got gen 1 running the rest was simple. The day to day is zero fuss. It’s totally mental burden free. That’s what I wanted. To finally be stable and out of the way.

Just wanted to drop a comment.

I love solar. It’s the best form of energy that’s attainable by the average person.

Honestly NIXos. Run it impermanent or traditional OS style. If your coming from Arch and want less breakage and more declarative configuration. Immutable or not. Pick almost any DE and all you maintain is your nix config. Nix config is your master file its not huge and the machine runs from it as you tell it. The machine does the rest. No system drift, no cruft. Just works and if you break it. Select your previous generation at boot and your back exactly as you were before.

I guess the friends aspect would help alot. I don’t have many friends due to Severe medical issues. I really want to try Minecraft again and add a ton of mods and play build craft again. I’m more interested in machines and building systems.

Dell latitude 14 inch 5430 or similar, cheap ish. Its got all the wants and needs. Plenty of ports. Its dell so it’ll survive forever.

I agree. But it’s so difficult not to when you watch people spend years making realistic jet planes with pistons. Makes me feel like my builds would be crappy.

I couldn’t ever get into Minecraft. Build craft yeah and other more in depth versions. One if the major things that turned me off the most was watching youtube. Before anything could be built but after watching people sink their life to make a flying plane or something insanely detailed. I don’t even want to try.

This must be why you also chose the Lemmy shit just works instance lol

Nix is great but not the saving grace I thought it would be. I daily it. Like it. Run cinnamon coming from Mint. But to be fair. It takes real effort and time to setup your config file, comment it thoroughly and then master the system. Once it’s fully automated backups and all you can hop machine to machine and it’s like you never left your OG machine. There’s pros and cons for sure.