Use open source software that doesnt try to spy on you

There is no reason why these files should contain PII, but on Windows and with proprietary software you never know

Press Esc when booting to see text

The TPM could be used to generate a LUKS decryption key from a password or PIN.

That would tie that password to the hardware, but with LUKS you can have multiple ones, so a long password that directly unlocks the key should be possible in addition

Just learned that you can pipe tar into any compression tool, if that is not natively supported.

It has less integrity checks but huge performance benefits for sure

Sounds like tmpfs would be more reliable than streaming data directly?

Yes and switch often caused issues which is why I only use it for very small changes after I just did an update (where a nix-shell might also just work)

Btw very funny how Guix is basically a 1:1 nix clone but in Libre

nixos-rebuild switch

I mostly use nixos-rebuild boot which is waay more stable

NixOS has something similar but very unstable. So exciting to see new approaches!

Recompile C projects with Zig

BTRFS is a fucking must. Tried resizing a EXT4 partition for a while and failed, no idea why

No idea why you would want to get precious data out of DRM-riddled physical media and then somehow devalue it again by putting it back into that format.

HDDs make more sense I suppose

To be a normal DE that works like all other platforms and desktop (apart from macOS maybe, idk, likely also has support)

KDE also uses CSD if apps support it, but if not, apps dont break for no reason

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

Keyboard layout is a question of the desktop environment

All distros and environments should support the same amount of regular layouts. A difference is how you switch between them. KDE allows me to use CAPSLOCK to switch, GNOME does not allow that so I use Alt+A.

If you are talking about complex input methods like I guess korean uses, these will use a separate program. These will exist on all big distros but I never tried them.

Arch Wiki entry

This will likely exist on all distros you might encounter. They should all have a website to search for packages, which you can use before installing

For example

• Opensuse
• Debian (as always less user friendly lol)
• Fedora

That depends on your preferences

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

Also checkout StirlingPDF

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2023/04/wireguard-netns-for-specific-apps/

https://volatilesystems.org/wireguard-in-a-separate-linux-network-namespace.html

https://github.com/dadevel/wg-netns

https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/creating-wireguard-jails-with-linux-network-namespace

On NixOS:

https://vtimofeenko.com/posts/wireguard-namespace-flake/

One of these should work

Try oniux for that, exactly what you need

Otherwise look into oniux and how to replace arti with wireguare/shadowsocks/xray/amneziawg

It does? I use it on KDE Wayland

Extra checked the name of the thing

I use it to change brightness via KDE Connect.

windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings

Which is an effect of trying to manage a chaotic system. NixOS solves this by having strict checks but giving users the ability to configure their system.

The system is very mutable but centrally controlled.

Windows has an idea how it wants to look like, but at the same time grants software all sorts of crazy permissions. Adobe software doesnt run when “storage protection mode against ransomware” is enabled for example.

The Windows store apps are better isolated, with permissions etc. But same as on Linux with Flatpak, Software vendors dont want to change their software to be less invasive.

I mean Windows pretty much thrives off the fact that you rely on random 3rd party software like drivers to be able to be installable externally and run with very high privileges. So they dont need to do the work.

the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files

Microsoft is 1000 times the size if RedHat, Canonical or SUSE, if not more. They just throw lots of money at it.

Also it is mission critical, so you can kinda expect vendors to test their software better, a bit.

Not always (crowdstrike lol)