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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

    I thought that was the ONLY distro...?!

    [–] Viking_Hippie 5 points 4 weeks ago

    It has been created to β€œattract young users to Linux”.

    Might want to update their "kids these days love this" reference list a bit πŸ˜„

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

    NixOS: How do I install OBS?

    edit /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

    locate environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [

    and add

    linuxPackages.v4l2loopback
    (wrapOBS {
      plugins = with pkgs.obs-studio-plugins; [
        obs-backgroundremoval
        obs-shaderfilter
        obs-vintage-filter
        
      ];
    })
    

    Then you need to install the kernel driver

    you can find the instructions here:

    https://nixos.wiki/wiki/OBS_Studio

    make sure you follow the part about boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [ v4l2loopback ];

    if you want to use the virtual cam driver.

    You may find out that you want to install this in home-manager or flakes instead, but those are novels themselves.

    edit: ohh yeah almost forgot run

    sudo nixos-rebuild switch

    after you edit the configs to install

    NixOS: How do I update the version of OBS after it's installed?

    sudo nix-channel --update

    sudo nixos-rebuild switch

    If it breaks, the errors are mostly unhelpful, you need to poke around and make educated guesses.

    If it bricks you can go back to the previous version in grub by selecting the second to the top entry

    make sure you garbage collect every now and then or the app store gets huge.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

    I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years and I recently noped out of NixOS. It's a great concept, but I'm old and I don't want to spend the rest of my days configuring stuff just to get to where I would be in 30 minutes on a less rigorously designed distro.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    That is, until your distro releases an update and you're like "what do you mean the update failed? So does that mean the update script rolled the changes back?" and then you find out your entire system is in a half updated state and you need to clean install

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

    Ever heard of btrfs snapshots and immutable?

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    [–] _cryptagion 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    To be fair, with btrfs and whatever snapshot tool your distro has, you can make any distro just about impossible to fuck up.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    until your distro releases

    That's saved my ass soooo many times. I now screw with X or Wayland to my hearts content, change 2-3-10 things at a time. ohh something didn't work? reboot!

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I just keep my home folder backed up safely. The software installed doesn’t really matter to me since I can redownload things pretty quickly

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Came here to say NixOS too. The idea behind it is neat but the implementation is the most obtuse Rube Goldberg machine I can imagine.

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago

    To scare them? Windows.

    img

    It's the absolute best way to make someone become a Linux user for life.:-)

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Gentoo obviously :
    To install, easy just get this iso, with no GUI, then whip your hard drive, create partition, copy the Linux core, config your core based on the hardware technical details of every components you have and will use, compile it, add extra core drivers, compile them, add all the software you'll use to get a GUI (Desktop environment), compile them,. Now you can finally restart without usb stick! Add all the software, configure and compile them. And for every update of every software you may check the details to be sure it doesn't break your config.
    Easy no? It just took you a month to get all the steps right!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Gentoo is a little easier nowadays. It has binary packages and you can use any old Linux live CD you prefer to do the install :)

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    Neither existed when I installed Linux the first time.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Hannah Montana Linux or Biebian

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Arch is fine... It has good documentation.

    NixOS or Gentoo is probably my pick.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

    Or Linux from scratch

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Ya there's Arch. There's NixOS. There's still Slackware.
    But have you heard of 9front?
    9front is useless. You won't be gaming or working with it.
    Mostly, you'd learn how operating systems are constructed.

    Or DoomOS or DoomLinux. It's a basic linux system where DOOM is the shell.
    I forked this and tried to get it running. Learned some interesting things. Still doesn't work for me. :]
    https://github.com/fl64/DoomLinux

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    9front is not useless!

    you can run catclock.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    Using DoomLinux to mess with someone would be hilarious. Plug the USB into the back of their computer then alter the boot order so it prioritises USB. Each time they start their computer it boots into DOOM.

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    [–] xylazineDream 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    The nixOS slander in these comments would be valid if nixOS were simply a distro and not a cult…

    [–] _cryptagion 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    that's absurd. cults kill people, and we only ruin marriages.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Slackware still exists, if they survive they'll be nigh immortal.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Make them use an old, abandoned distro.

    Like Brazil's own Knoppix fork Kurumin.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

    Obviously Hannah Montana Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is that a really young Brodie Robertson on the right??

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Since people fear parentheses, GNU Guix.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Who TF is scared by Mint?

    Did a clean upgrade/install of Mint about 10 hours ago. I'm back to business as usual. Minor tweaks, no tinkering.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I installed mint, and my Linux knowledge (little to none) plateaued because it never breaks. I never have to fix anything. I'm the iPad kid of Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    How dare it work!

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

    Don't run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don't use a desktop, get a mainframe.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Great, now I've got the phonk walk in my head

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Mint is goat

    Remember to make a backup pipeline with Timeshift and you’ll be fine

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Nixos, Legacy of the greybeard.

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