I have $HOME/src for projects that are executables and $HOME/lib for ones that are libraries/dependancies/etc

Yes you are quite right, unfortunately for me I rolled high in electrochemestry and require copious amounts of proprietary games and CUDA cores so GNU + Linux + Proton is where I will need to be for now.

Nix seemed more focused on marketing and cutting corners to make a working product faster

Yes, this is a big issue in corporate development. It seems like management is in a constant state of barreling headfirst into a “silver bullet that fixes everything” instead of doing things the hard way (which in the long term is almost always better.

expect to either package it yourself

I have not maintained any packages before but I am very interested in learning how, I shall look into this.

Shepherd for its init system

I vaguely remember this was the originally used in Hurd? if so that is cool.

https://toys.whereis.みんな/

This is very cool!

guix import

This seems quite useful thanks for that.

Setting up Emacs, a local SMTP server connected to your email for git, and a CLI password manager will probably be helpful.

I have been wanting to set up upasfs this may be the push I need to finally get around to doing that.

It appears Guix may be a good choice in the future but not quite yet, I will try installing it as a package manager and/or try it in a VM to start out with. Thanks for the info!

Ah yeah, that makes sense. I shall try this out in a VM sometime. thanks!

Using scheme would be a big benefit for me as I already know it whereas NixOS I would have to learn their config language. I suppose that if it is easy to create packages and submit them it would be like compiling it myself except that more people could have access to it. I shall take this under consideration.

I do have one related question, during install how do you get an already customized config file onto the system during install? How do I create a config file beforehand?

I seems like the consensus from people here is to start with the stand-alone package manager. So I shall look into that thanks!

This does make a lot of sense. From what I could tell a lot of devs talk about nixos in the same way that they talk about docker.

Yeah Ive been using hy-lang about half the time I have to do things in python; so I would assume weirdness is bound to occur :). Yeah I believe someone else mentioned that it could be used as a standalone package manager so I shall look into this.

Yeah thats a good idea. I know that guix can be used as standalone package manager but I didn’t know you could do that with nix as well. I shall look more into that, thanks

Yeah one of the reasons I was looking into Guix was because it has a lisp based configuration. (I use emacs semi regularly so I imagine guix would fit into the emacs config mindset well).

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I am a hobbyist programming language developer so I program in a lot of different languages (c, rust, go, js, python, various lisps, forths, esoteric langs). I did read an interesting article about someone daily driving Debian Sid, so maybe I will look closer into that. I also have heard of a distro called rhino linux which is supposed to be a “rolling release ubuntu”. Yeah I always forget that docker dev containers are an option, maybe I should look into that more.

From what I heard one component was that it was difficult to line up the release dates between updating the Ubuntu base and KDE because Ubuntu uses GNOME and they line up their release dates with that

As a Unix weirdo I grok you

If you don’t want to install Linux, You should install plan9

MLVWM is a classic mac window manager for X11

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm

Also you will need

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwmrc

Also bonus: Mac OS 8 startup for Plymouth

https://github.com/vladkorotnev/System8

Classic Mac OS 7.5.3 -> 8.5 -> 9.2 -> Windows 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8.1 -> 10 -> Pop!_OS (for a few years but eventually wanted a KDE based distro) -> Garuda Linux (for a few years but wanted to try out nobara for gaming) -> Nobara (for now, great for gaming, frustrating for programming because of package differences) and other unknown reasons)

One more way I don’t have to leave Emacs!

I have heard good things about kdenlive. Don’t do what I do and do everything in blender

Ah cool! Did not know this existed!