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"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
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I'll check it out! I'm a glutton for punishment. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you want punishment go for NixOS!
But once it clicks you have a fully declarative setup**. I edit a file, activate, commit to git. On another system, pull, activate.
** The config system is expansive but not exhaustive. I still have to login to Slack, pick my theme, etc. My VPN on the other hand is just ready credentials and all.
I never have to remember the 100 little tweaks I made, every tweak is in git. Noise canceling pipewire filter, what software I had installed, service configurations, secret management, disk partitions, all portable between different systems.
A lighter introduction is probably home manager, works in any Linux system or macOS. Manages your home directory as the name implies.
You can also go lighter with a repo flake.nix and a devShell. Its like a generic virtual environment. Auto activate with direnv. A step up from a devShell would be https://devenv.sh/ which tracks more like home manager with configurable modules. A devShell is really a bash script with these programs available from Nix.
Not wanting to start any distro wars, its all a matter of taste but I could advise you to try cachyos its also arch based, but with a few performance tweaks, what I believe that it could help you is that on cachyos start screen it gives you the option to install and setup winboat and winboat is great when you need to run windows applications.
Added to my last to try! Thanks!