• HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    When I was first looking into Linux I asked the only friend I knew who used it and he unironically recommended me Arch…

    A year later I actually gave Arch a try, but by then he apparently hated Arch and switched to Gentoo and I stopped asking him for advice at that point.

    • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I switched from Arch to Gentoo, for me it’s just the next step of taking advantage of every last bit of my hardware. But unless you are seriously invested, I would never recommend Gentoo to someone. If you just want something that’s up to date, go with Fedora. If you have some spare time, go with Arch. If you have no hobbies at all, go with Gentoo.

      • ragas@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        I dunno, apart from compile times, Gentoo is the simplest distribution ever. I have way more problems with my Arch or Ubuntu (Neon) installations.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    To scare them? Windows.

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

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Man, i’m a NixOS user so probably also biased because i got used to the nix language, but legitimately all the parentheses in guix confuse the hell out of me lol

      • Gilgamesh@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        I also feared them prior to using and writing my own config. But later, I found out they have packages that highlight different parentheses depth with different colours (rainbow-delimiter), auto insert missing parens (parinfer) and whatnot. This makes the process of working with them a lot easier!

    • wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      slackware

      <graybeard> Way back when, in the bad old days of ISA cards and IRQ collisions and who knows what “90% soundblaster compatible” means, slackware had amazing install images. you had some dusty old 386 with 5 1/4" drives? Oh and you added an ISA SCSI card so you could use one of those new fangled ZIP drives? Yep…just look thru the ftp site and I bet you’d find what you needed.

      Mind you, still had to write all of your own /etc/init.d scripts, and every other config file under the sun, but you could get almost any machine up and running before all them fancy new modular kernel drivers came into existence. </graybeard>

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
                0·
                2 months ago

                It’s not even fully immutable, but it has a lot of the protections of it. The declaritive part is pretty hot and the package system is expansive and extremely safe.

                it’s also really nice to be able to commit new changes without rebooting.

  • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • mittorn@masturbated.one
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        2 months ago

        @gwilikers @dbtng but it will not boot because of missing csm/mbr support. Need EFI version (basicly you may run doom on pure EFI without OS, as it supports everything needed and even more)

        • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I think what you are saying is that the project I linked won’t work for USB boot on a new EFI system. I imagine your assessment about EFI is correct, but I’m mostly interested in virtualized systems.

          Their are several DOOM linux things out there. The version I’m working on builds out with busybox.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnXWOUKhTA

          My eventual intent is to use DOOM agents as a load tester.
          I’d like the ISO to boot, look for a local game, and join a bot to deathmatch.
          And then the testing metric would be a simple count. How many dooms can it run?
          I have lots of projects. I might finish that one some day.

      • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        We used to do this back in the day with Win95.
        You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that’s all the computer would run.
        It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.