And what improvements could come from incompetent fucks knowing your hostname, mac adress, and other identifying information? Aside from improving their financial status that is…

Is it enshitification if it was shit all along?

Check out unixsurrealism

we have no choice but to push people from non-aligned countries away

Non-aligned countries are fine, they can always invade most of the countries once again, the issue is with the Eastern block.

i don’t see what it offers over e.g. debian

Open clan has better techno-mages

I mean, it’s not like he’s going to say “I’ve got a few mil in redhat stocks, and they signed a new $800+ mil deal with the DoD 2 months ago, so we’ve got to clean house”

Though even if they weren’t, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.

Meanwhile Linus is fine with supporting USA DOD and making a profit from it. Funny how morality changes when you introduce other interests… It’s a purely business move and has nothing to do with ethics.

Best case scenario: sunk cost fallacy

Worst case scenario: there’s a lot of shit you can do when you control a closed source app store, and canonical has a history of doing sketchy shit like selling user data to Amazon

https://programming.dev/comment/8114883

As far as I understand, they’re not replacements in the same way nix profile replaces nix-env. They seem to serve a different purpose, but I don’t know enough to say for certain.

$ nix shell -p python
error: unrecognised flag '-p'
Try 'nix --help' for more information.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-nix-shell-and-nix-develop/25964/4

No, it builds on top of nix. But it seems like the only real option for declarative package management.

Nix shell and nix-shell are different commands

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-nix-shell-and-nix-develop/25964/4

Nix run iirc only works with flakes

So does nix shell

Home-manager > nix profile

Also, nix-shell is supposed to be used for debugging, and nix shell/develop for using packages without installing them

Depends on what you do.

If you’re just browsing, and doing casual stuff, it’s not really noticeable. It’s perfect for the less technically oriented because nothing changes for years.

I’ve been using MX for about a year now, but I definitely wouldn’t have without flatpak and nix. I need packages that aren’t years out of date, so they’re all installed through nix home-manager.

The benefit of this combo is that while user packages might break, the system itself will be predictable for the next few years. That means no new bugs, but also that minor issues won’t be solved.

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

Yeah, who’d hate using a package manager that increasingly slows down your boot time with every package installed, or that uses a closed source store to provide you FOSS

Maybe there’s a reason canonical has to force it on their users

No, Debian doesn’t take your apt install ... command and install a snap behind your back…

I dislike that it takes way too long to boot

1. Use the Daemon, it starts a new client in a fraction of a second
2. Improve your config and it’ll start in under a second anyways

Emacs had some “premade IDE” project I recall that I tried and wasn’t that enthusiastic about.

Doom Emacs, spacemacs, etc.

And there are plenty of nvim “distros” like that (lazyvim for example).

They make getting started pretty easy. I’ve been using Doom for years and never bothered to make a full config of my own.