I’m really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I’ve been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I’m feeling excited about. I don’t know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn’t really in the running… I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    but their logo could use some work shopping

    Well, Tumbleweed changed their logo a few months ago. Used to be a classie infinity symbol. They tilted it 45° and put some weird arrow in there, and now it looks like Fedora fanart.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    If I switch from discover to some other manager like bazaar, is it still going to default to my distro’s flatpaks? Or will I have to manually choose?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’m not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a “distro’s Flatpaks”? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
      A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling…

      • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
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        30 days ago

        At least Fedora and Elementary have distro-made repos. They use them to package their apps for all distro versions without having to rely on Flathub infra and admins

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Eventhough i’m a void user i really like the artix logo and i think it’s on of the best looking logos in neofetch/fastfetch

  • tengkuizdihar@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you…

    i have no idea actually, why arch?

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you’re familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I’ve only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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      1 month ago

      Container images and NixOS is actually a match made in heaven, so yes it’s NixOS all the way, except I spend 10 times reading scattered documentation and tutorials rather than getting a working configuration… Fedora ain’t so bad

      • MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        Easily the biggest downside rn. The scattered/lack of documentation has been the biggest hurdle for me getting into NixOS, especially after being spoiled with the arch wiki.

      • tux7350@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        How do you manage your images in Nix? Ive got a bunch of docker compose files and want to migrate over but havent had the time to sink.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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          30 days ago

          Would love to point you in the right direction, but I’ve only briefly skimmed some articles that talk about how the thing I was referring to, i.e. making container images with Nix as the base, can be made.

          As for service definitions in Compose, I’m not aware of a way to map that into a Nix native approach. There might be though, I don’t know

    • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Personally I just like being close to upstream so that contributing if I find bugs is easier.

      As others have said I also recommend it for tech-competent gamers.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      When you like rolling release distros because you’re still traumatized from trying to version-upgrade Fedora Core. Although I went with Garuda because of convenience tools like garuda-update.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It’s tempting me but I don’t have any time for that.

      • funkajunk@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:

        fastfetch -c neofetch

        EDIT:

        Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:

        fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

      • illusionist@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        Is nix already “normy” compatible? It has to become much easier.

        I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

        Same for flatpak, it’s on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

        • GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

          Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don’t have immich.

          On the other hand, if by “normie” you mean “running a browser and some flatpaks”, nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

          • illusionist@lemmy.zip
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            30 days ago

            Nix is awesome but has a steep learning curve imo.

            I’ll have a look into the installer nowadays whrn I get to it, thx for the hint.

          • luciferofastora@feddit.org
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            30 days ago

            Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

            That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.

            • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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              30 days ago

              The one exception here: it’s great to have it installed on your parents’ PC when you’re the one doing the update once in a while when you are around. Rock solid in between, no nagging, and if something did break, easy to roll back.

        • iopq@lemmy.world
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          30 days ago

          the UIs for things like configs are not really usable in my experience, unless someone found something that works better

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That’s neat how that’s been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.

        (Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I’m looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

    In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

    I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

    For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.