Joke's on you, I don't understand Nix and I'm a NixOS package maintainer
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I'm guessing you're responsible for the documentation, as well.
Gottem lol
Kind of, but since I don't know what I'm doing I mostly just delete some of it when it's not working
is it possible to learn this power?
Randomly switch between buildInputs, nativeBuildInputs, depsBuildBuild, depsBuildTarget, depsHostHost, and depsTargetTarget until it builds.
Good luck building anything electron. Copy-paste some existing build recipe and replace the source. If it doesn't work, make a post on the forums saying it doesn't work and let somebody else figure it out, then create a PR π«° ezpz
I don't randomly switch between anything, I go straight to copy pasting existing packages
teach us the way
while code_is_working != true {
response = post(matrix_channel, [code, error_code]);
[code_is_working, error_code] = run(response);
}The secret is attitude, "fuck it we ball" attitude and method of "fuck around and find out" works just fine
Lolβ¦
I mean, fair enough; also, your use case is entirely unlike that of someone who just uses NixOS normally, I would imagine. It's really not like using NixOS requires a deep understanding of the language itself, or at least that's never been my experience with it, and I've been daily driving it for well over a year at this point. As long as I know enough to keep maintaining the same /etc/nixos/configuration.nix I have now indefinitely, that's as deep of an "understanding" of the language as I will ever need, personally. I'm well aware that there are a lot of things I could be doing if I knew how to, and frankly, I'll probably never learn how to do those things because I'll probably never have to. NixOS is by far the single easiest distro I've ever used, if only because everything's always reproducible and because nothing ever breaks.
No, it's just I need niche proxy software so I maintain one package. The other package is bugged (wrong paths on nix), so I maintain a fork and a NUR package
It's not by choice!
this post implies that you download debs from the internet instead of using your distro's package manager
also last I checked apt hasn't stopped being a cli over the years
This meme reeks of someone who's only used linux for a week and has no clue what he's talking about.
When I was a beginner and used Linux Mint, I downloaded deb files, and even rpm files that I converted to deb, because I didn't know what package manager means
You can also use any of the packagekit gui's such as gnome software or kde diskover
They are both terrible. Synaptic is the only one worth using on debian based distros.
I didn't actually mean that you install deb packages from the internet, I mean debian based distros, I just don't know the acronym for it.
and AFAIK mx linux and LMDE have programs with a GUI for installing packages, and I added debian because it has a gui installer and I don't know a good third debian based distro
All power users, of all distros, use the CLI. It's what unites us!
I used the CLI a lot when I was on Windows and RISCOS before that.
I admire your dedication to posting watamote linux memes
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I switched to Gentoo but use the Nix package manager, helps if I wanna test out some software before committing to the compile. it's been great.
I just want to install the latest version of an app without downloading half an OS worth of dependencies. AppImage had me dreaming of this day but the project seems like it's dying, if not dead already.
Didn't appimage bundle all the dependencies inside it? That leads to way more taken disk space cuz of duplicate libs
I know this, but it's still way lighter than flatpak. (the required app depencies size <<< whatever the hell flatpak downloads)
An app image that weighs a few hundred megabytes ( it's often less) becomes several gigabytes as a flatpak. I can download more than a dozen of appimages and it still would weigh as much as a single flatpak. I think it's just that my use case require me to have a handful lightweight apps in their latest version and the rest can be managed by the OS.
Yes, the first flatpak is big cause you have to download the runtime (most common dependencies you will probably need anyways in the future). The majority of other flatpaks you will download will use the runtime you've already downloaded so those flatpaks will be lighter than the appimage variant
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Flatpak nowadays feels like the spiritual successor to appimage. All the dependencies are containerized, and uninstalling an app doesn't leave behind a residue of automatically created files on your system... at least in theory. All of these benefits are kind of negated if an app has full disk read/write permission.
Appimage is kind of silly in my opinion. Appimage is just "portable application" (i.e. when an app gets shipped as a folder containing the executable, .so dependencies, and resources), but crammed into a disk image for some reason.
I was referring to flatpak when I said 'half an OS worth of dependencies'. I have an extremely shitty and unstable internet, so downloading like 5gb for a simple app isn't worth it. Even if my internet wasn't as horrible, Flatpak is only worth it when you want to install dozens of big app and not when you want to install 2-3 apps, the heaviest being a 100mb or so as a .deb.
You can technically install dpkg onto arch; but it's not reccomended.
Speaking of not recommended, you can technically install arch on an NTFS partition
You can also install Windows on btrfs
Why?
This seems cool and everything but why would you do this, just to say I can?
I have no idea, just came across it on GitHub one day and found it pretty funny. It seems to be pretty unstable though.
I can smell data loss issues just by reading this
What about Fedora users?
i installed nobara and while everything was simple to set up, the nobara installer doesn't recognize the ssd i flashed it on. going great
atleast arch has the AUR. right? and we have flatpak and appimage.