It’s there to solve your “This is boring” issue without having to do all of the system configuration stuff manually*.

I was able to package a nightly AppImage as if it were installed normally like an app, and I could reinstall the system if I wanted to, and it’d still be there. NixOS is the opposite of manual dependency resolution, it’s dependency heaven. You can have unstable and stable repositories side-by-side, living in a utopic egalitarian society. You can write a configuration file that does everything. You can do anything with NixOS. NixOS is the one true god, all hail NixOS—

Ah, I see why you may not want to use it. Consider it though, it’s genuinely good and trying doesn’t hurt.

I haven’t even told you about nix-comma or nix helper (nh) yet. May the, uh, flake be with you.

*You do have to write the config files, though you can just adapt someone else’s configuration.

Purple like Debian?

Have you seen the better browsing experience? It’s on Zen. It’s literally on Librewolf. It’s on Floorp without ads. It’s literally on Waterfox. You can probably find it on Ironfox. Dude it’s on Ladybird. It’s a Servo original. It’s on GNOME Web. You can browse on GNOME Web. You can go to GNOME Web and browse it. Epiphany has it for you. </joke>

i use foot terminal btw

lol, limão even

My Motorola phone was released in 2024 and has a headphone jack, so maybe it’s just some of their models that don’t have them. I just looked up a more recent 2025 model (Moto G 5G) and it also has a 3.5mm jack, so it looks like Motorola will keep having headphone jacks, hopefully this is the case as I don’t like having to charge my headphones.

yay! i have a motorola phone hopefully i will be able to install grapheneOS on it some day. though for some stupid government/banking apps i’ll probably need a secondary, crappier phone with the usual spyware on it. i really hope that they make grapheneOS available for already purchased Motorola phones.

edit: from what i see it looks like it’s probably gonna be for newer devices, and that is very sad, as i’m only gonna buy a new phone in like 3 to 4 years. Anyway, at least motorola has pretty good hardware and ok prices. Wait, do newer motorola phones come with a headphone jack? my Moto G55 has a headphone jack.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ <- offtopic with the post, but i’m just leaving this here in case someone hasn’t seen it.

video but with a “loops”, “has controls visible” and “remove audio” setting

so it doesn’t even have to be part of the video format, just muted mp4 or webm with looping and UI settings

I just have Niri with Waybar and a consistent color scheme

Ah, this is why I set up snapper on my btrfs system

i use mpv btw

i run sudo xbps-install -Su whenever i remember to, and flatpak update whenever there’s a new Krita version

Honestly I didn’t use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn’t like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint’s apps.

It would have been nice to know about that, I already heard about it before but only after I’d switched to Void anyway. Maybe one day if I try NixOS again I will use it.

I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss

NixOS also doesn’t show what packages were updated after an update, and doesn’t show which version they changed to, which is slightly annoying.

To be cringe is to be free

The answer is simple: when I used Debian, I was just starting out with Linux and didn’t mess with systemctl at all. It was an ok beginner experience (I’d already used Mint before trying Debian, so I was at more of an intermediate level) but I probably wouldn’t like it as much nowadays.

I like the idea of using different software for different things, why do systemd timers exist when there’s already crontab, for example?

Meanwhile, I mostly used Arch on my server where I had to deal with all the systemd stuff, which was rarely useful for my purposes.

I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

I “tried” installing gentoo once but i didn’t know what a tarball was at the time so i can’t really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.

i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i’m not sure on the details.

I was curious