OBS Studio: There's a community version but no official version of OBS for Linux.
This is incorrect, right? Im assuming had to install it somewhere else and presumed it wasnt official.
rutrum
joined 10 months ago
If you really hate linux, I think the transition will be extra difficult and you might not end up switching away.
If you use conda, I suggest using pixi as a project manager. It has lock files which will fix dependencies, and it can activate your enviroments with scripts and variables defined in your pyproject.toml. It has been so much better than using conda directly: https://pixi.sh/
Theres three things at play here: nix, nixpkgs, and NixOS.
Nix is a programming language. Its designed as its primary purpose to configure, build, and install software.
Nixpkgs is a collections of mamy bundles of premade nix code called derivations. These derivations include the build instructions for applications and the configuration options for those applications. This part is most equivalent to a package repository, but it does not contain prebuilt packages. It only contains the instructions for building it.
Nix has a wide variety of tools for managing these derivations. This includes downloading derivations from nixpkgs and building them locally on your machine (or finding prebuilt packages from a cache). Nix shell is one of those tools that downloads a package temporarily, and makes it available in your shell. You wouldnt use nix shell for installing things permanently.
The OS built with nix as the primary package manager is NixOS. It allows you to define your entire system state as a derivation: your systemd units, installed packages, user configuration, graphical environment, etc.
The best part of NixOS is that it takes the OS and represents the state of the computer as a single repository of code. If you look up someones nixos configuration on GitHub, you'll see a single collection of files (filled with derivations!) that completely and totally define the state of the system.
Lollypop looks awesome. Thanks for recommending. Welcome back to NixOS
Looking forward to TYPE_CHECKING without import typing.
There are many devices for making single or double cups of coffee. I think the aeropress and v60 are great options.
Does anyone here use kellnr? Sounds really awesome to have, but I dont write any closed source rust, and just publish to crates.io.
Only a web dev could be fooled into being a gopher
Tinkering, really. I did a bunch of stuff with wine and virtualization and troubleshooted across versions. One time I manually updated the version of sqlite in python's std lib to be a newer version. I picked a non LTS kernel once. All these things compounded and bloated my system. And when I went to do clean up, I didnt have a record of exactly everything I installed, what I used and what I didnt. It was guesswork to clean up my disk or even remember the tools I used to get a project working.
This is solved with declarative configuration, which is the basis of NixOS. I believe VanillaOS 2 has something similar. Likewise, this is one the great benefits of docker, vagrant, ansible, etc.
I dont think the criticism of installing apps is valid. Windows also has many ways of installing things. He criticizes the app center as if you can install everything from the microsoft store. On windows you still install stuff from a website, and you can use a package manager too it just isn't a requirement.