Ignoring the foss issue discord just needs slightly better fuzzy search and it would be amazing. Right now I’m usually able to find related discussion but it takes a few different keywords and I know that there’s probably something im missing out on because a single character is different…

I was never really aware I did this until I had to program something with hot reloading (I don’t remember what) and it was so insufferable…

And now my pain is with rustfmt. Just because I saved before filling in the struct fields does not mean I want you to format the struct accordingly!!!

This is a selling point I don’t often see people discussing but it has killed my need to swap distros… Possibly forever. I’ve been using it for a year now and have such a clean well organised config file. Version controlled, broken up into modules, with separate configurations for desktop laptop and server. Unlike any other distro, at any moment I can just hard reset to what that config describes. If I swap DEs, or python versions, or whatever else, the system no longer slowly builds up clutter and random arcane bugs and bloat. It feels like today my system is better, newer, and cleaner than when I started with it. And at any moment I can install my exact system down to every little detail on a new device. Nix is legendary for long term system maintenance.

That’s what I love about it, among all the other good things everyone talks about.

Even better it’s the first time I’ve actually felt the desire to learn to package apps that aren’t available, because the nix language makes it so easy.

Of course there is definitely a learning curve, compared to other distros. Going from… at the time arch/fedora to nix felt like just as big a change as going from Windows to Linux in the first place, such a big shift in how I did everything. But definitely worth it.

Nixos would do the trick. Just swap the DE in your config and BAM, magic.

I’m playing on Linux and it runs perfectly (nixos though). I wouldn’t even be able to guess it was on Linux if I didn’t know. have you tried the latest proton / proton ge?

Competition sounds great, so long as it has all of the following:

• Something better than steam input and the steam controller.
• Something better than steam vr.
• Something better than steam workshop.
• something better than proton
• Something better than steams friends/chat/activity interface.
• Something better than the steam overlay.
• Something better than big picture.
• Absolutely no exclusives, and no deals forcing developers to use it.
• A nicer store interface than valve, with better community pages, curator pages, discussion pages, etc.
• An equivalent to steam fest with a strong demo scene.

This is of course also ignoring just how efficient, clean, customisable and ergonomic the steam interface is compared to all competition

Oh wait! That doesn’t exist. All we need is some way to guarantee valve doesn’t become public.