Try it out maybe? You’re not buying a car… There’s not much point going around and asking if you spend 20 mins trying it out and realise you don’t want to use a 5 year old DE.
Basically expect the system will change only when you update to a new version, and that you’ll need to use external PMs like flatpak or nix for all user packages if you plan on doing anything more advanced than browsing and office work.
Wait till you find out about fzf
MX (Debian + Nvidia + tools to make use easier).
Debian: Release cadance seems too slow for my preference.
Install OBS and other software from flatpak
MX, ThinkPad t480, intel+Nvidia (no matter which drivers): close screen to suspend causes it, and it’s not happening in other DE’s. Can’t be bothered to try out xfce on another distro just to confirm. I made a post when I was trying to fix it for myself.
The final straw were the Bluetooth headphones though. Most of the time I’d have to manually select them 20 times as the output device so it sticks, and then it’d switch back to the speakers as soon as the call starts. Or I’d hear the other person through the correct device, but the they couldn’t hear me on Skype, but could on Google meet.
MX was pretty reliable otherwise.
Why /joke when that’s how stable distros work?
I’m aware of Debian’s reputation for not having the most up-to-date software in its repository
Yes, it’s a stable distro. Contrary to what most Linux users think, that term only means that the distro is unchanging. That means only necessary updates are released (security fixes for example).
when it will make available the upcoming major release of GIMP to 3.0.
Maybe in the next version, if the gimp release happens soon enough it gets tested.
Just use an external package manager like flatpak to install fresh packages. The only reason I could run MX (Debian) for about a year was because I installed almost every user package through nix, and used Debian ones for the system packages.
The xfce in the current MX has issues with waking up as well. When power manager suspends it, it would often wake up to a black screen and requires either a logout or to apply a xrandr config. Same issue doesn’t happen when suspending through systemctl
Not the same scale but Signal has a rather new approach for a messaging client. Completely free and funded by user donations - at least that’s the direction they’re trying to head
You do realise they’re trying to become the crypto WeChat? Shit app with horrible management.
Check out Antix, Debian based, and it’s primarily made for older devices and has a 32bit ISO
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
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
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.
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/run/develop for using packages without installing them
I mean the title should be “… time to move to the other browser”.
Safari is the new IE with extra iCrap on top.
Random browsers usually use one of the 3 web engines, but without browser polish, or functionalities like a working adblock. Those that don’t are just someone’s toys.
So the only real option is Firefox, and the Mozilla foundation lost 80+% of their funding because they can’t get the Google money anymore. Maybe they’ll start actually funding FF instead of some BS humanitarian work that I can bet was primarily lining their pockets…