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NixOS missed its shot again. The community has been head down in their flame wars on their forums about ideology that they are missing the train on so many things.
Theoretically, NixOS has everything has Bazzite has and more, but the major thing it lacks is an interface to manage it. There is one single project that made some headway on the topic (SnowflakeOS), but it was kinda rejected by the community. I think the NixOS community's level of thinking is at the same level the Linux community's was in 2005 or so: "GUIs are for suckers" and "it will be eternal September if we let the lusers in".
Give NixOS another decade and maybe they'll start focusing on actually making the OS usable for normies so that channels like GN can use it.
I think there's just too many unfinished features and issues to also start working on GUI
Indeed perhaps. I'd really like to see something like a Content-addressed Storage model from snix get upstreamed. That could really revolutionize bandwidth requirements for nix package updates and store sizes. Imagine downloading only the binary diffs for updates to packages like large modern browsers, IDEs, election apps, etcs, that mostly share common files across versions and packages. Suddenly, daily driving a rolling distro on the bleeding edge would be no more taxing on networks or disks than your average infrequent Debian update.
Video;DW. Anybody have a summary?
GamersNexus is adding Linux to their GPU/CPU benchmarks. The video talks about their considerations for it, which distros they'll use (bazzite/arch) and how theyre going about it
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They talk about distros to choose and complexity of testing... Steve loses will to live as video continues.
Never thought I'd see someone suggest something based on fedora as the go-to, but here we are. Look forward to their progress.
I spent way too long trying to install Bazzite and base Fedora. The install process is pretty much broken if you don't want to just wipe your drive and give the whole thing to Fedora.
The automatic partitioning would refuse to see free space as available space, one manual partitioning option would create the wrong kind of btrfs volume, the other manual one did work but had no guidance on which partitions Fedora wanted, and the actual install would fail deployment because the EFI partition wasn't empty.
Say what you will about Debian distros, but at least you can install them.
I thought everyone had abandoned RedHat everything ages ago. I assumed bazzite etc were all Debian or arch based.
RedHat as an org has a few red flags popping lately too.
Is CachyOS all that? Level1 talked it up.
CachyOS is popular and has many generic optimisations, tho I don't believe it uses Intel's complier. It's arch based so unstable but one of the better ones.
Bazzite and Nobara are Fedora based
Nobara makes sense, GE works for RedHat. But anything else.... Weird.
Fedora is independent of RedHat.
last few times I tried this year the fedora kde installer had no issues with the partitioning
for me Fedora Workstation installed fine, even when dual-booting (you have to “shrink” the Windows partition first) and it works great for me. The only slightly annoying thing is that many guides and how-tos use a debian based distro vs red hat/fedora based one (apt vs dnf, .deb vs .rpm)
Wait, a dual boot? Why?
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