I’m a programmer and have switched to NixOS, because I can define all my configurations in code+git repo, which is great. I now have a single repo that has some parts that are shared, and some parts are host-specific (one desktop + 2 laptops, for now), and if I fix some bug (like my Samsung 990 Pro SSDs having Linux issues), I know it’ll be permanently fixed, instead of having to re-figure everything out after a reinstallation.

NixOS BTW. We’re making it ours.

edit: Steam has been a non-issue, so gaming has been great so far! Not that I’ve been gaming a ton, but still.

Also, being able to use an LLM to fix stuff for me in my nixcfg repo has been great - I would NOT have been as productive with NixOS had I not have had Codex.

Protip: Turn off Dark Reader for that page - it’ll ‘break’ the optical illusions.

This just makes me want to stay in the terminal forever!

Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

* Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

It’s fine for newbies.

As someone who used it when he was a newbie: Gnome is fucking awful to learn - it’s so bloody alien, it’s not even funny.

I’m now using a distro with KDE and it feels just right.

You’re obviously not using NixOS. I clearly don’t even need to try to use such a subpar stateful system such as Arch, you absolute pleb.

Am I out-jerking you already?

I use NixOS, obviously.

Where is Nix? Oh right, he’s in space, chilling.

Neat! Reminds me of Mystical - a language where every function is a magic circle.

I think they’re just uncomfortable with the word “master”

1 person over at Microsoft complained, and they moved mountains for this person to replace master with main. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.

and that seems completely reasonable to me

No it doesn’t. Why does an entire industry need to flip over, because of a single person? Like the ability of changing the master branch for yourself should have been enough. Changing the default over on Github to strong-arm the rest of the world is disgusting behaviour. Which is why I’m sticking to master wherever I can.

especially when they’re people from a group which has been subjected to slavery.

That is literally every group… Every group has been slaves (and slavers) at some point in time. That’s not a good argument.

Haskell:

https://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction

It’s been a while since writing some (2018), but the concepts you learn from Haskell are great (though I still can’t explain Monads, even if my life depended on it) and can be applied in other languages.

Anyway, I can’t speak to BEAM, but Haskell is very typeful, it teaches you currying, very great language, awful tooling (but that was ~10 years ago, so I hope things have improved since).

over many many years.

19 years. Almost 20, coming December!

Aaah, PHP. I’ll stick with GoHugo, but it’s good to know alternatives!

I tried Thunderbird. Didn’t like it, at all. Evolution is much more my jam.

NixOS isn’t great for non-programmers, I bet, but for programmers it’s amazing.

Wait until DHH finds NixOS, where we can configure everything via single configuration. Even multiple machines.

I love Debian for what it taught me, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use anything else.

Expected git, got multiple programming languages. Nice.

How are the dataframe libraries on Ruby?

I like Bread on Penguins - very informative now that Luke Smith has turned away from Linux and towards Communist Philosophist or whatever he now turned into.

No colours? But how am I going to look down on the other three quadrants?

But for real, how did you make it? Hold up, did you screenshot draw.io? You absolute madlad!

VAIgans.