Ah that’s useful to know, I’ve been using gamescope for that but it’s a bit overkill
Ah that’s useful to know, I’ve been using gamescope for that but it’s a bit overkill
I use nixos for dev all the time, personally I think it’s great
What I would suggest however is to install the nix package manager on another distro, learn how it works that way and then switch when you’re comfortable only using nix
Flakes are absolutely incredible for development and I think every project beyond scrappy scripts should use them.
You can specify all your dependencies (compiler, libraries, cli tools, environment variables etc) in your nix flake, then run nix develop and it’ll make you an isolated shell with all that stuff
(For example, I don’t have go, rust or dotnet installed but when I cd into one of my projects directors it installs them to a temporary shell and catches them until I clean up)
The flake also generates a lock file which specifies every version of every dependency with a git rev and a hash, meaning if you check flake and lock into git, anyone else who clones that project and uses the flake gets the exact same system you were using
I usually use gamescope for that purpose but it’s still a bit of a pain and takes me out of the tmux/helix loop
Ahhh my bad I didn’t read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already
I’d love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I’ve found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I’m supposed to be doing
Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually
Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2
I do find it crazy that despite all the technological advancement to save everyone time we just ended up spending all that free time working
Putting things out of your mind doesn’t mean you can’t take action though
If the only reasonable thing I can do to make a change to a situation is to cast a vote there’s no point worrying about it until I actually have the opportunity to do that
Is the intelligent thing not to be to recognise when things are out of your control and put them out of your mind
Yep that I imagine is one of the main intended use cases, in my case would probably be overkill though
Screen sharing from Linux is amusing though, so far I’ve yet to have anyone even mention it (hyprland so looks very different to Windows
Sounds like some pretty serious cons
Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn’t sound that great to me
I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I’ve only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows
Generally I think “I agree with *.hexbear.net” is a pretty telling sign for the opinion that’s about to come next
The reason people say stuff like this though is because while you can try to force it into behaving like windows, you’re going to get a much better experience if you let go of that and embrace the differences
Tiling window managers, package managers and command line tools are all examples that you just don’t really get properly using windows and they provide a lot of the reasons people want to daily drive linux
Pretty sure they didn’t want to go for command line editors but helix has a much more intuitive search and replace feature nowadays where you don’t need to type a whole sed command
It’s not that it’s not widely usable, it’s just that you should be open to different workflows
An oven and a toaster can both toast bread, but you wouldn’t expect someone who’s just bought a toaster after using an oven to complain because it doesn’t have a door or shelves
I’ve found vscode generally doesn’t open as fast as np++ did
Check protondb instead of winehq, it’s normally accurate and something like 95% of games are playable now
Though no games outside of steam, personally I don’t have many games on anything other than steam that I want to play so I don’t know how other launchers fare (though heroic is a thing for epic and gog)
Notepad++ I couldn’t say because I only really use terminal based stuff now with the aforementioned million shortcuts, but I think kde’s built in one (Kate) does exactly what you want
Nvidia drivers aren’t that much of a problem anymore, last big issue for me was explicit sync which they fixed a couple months ago (though some distros make it a bit of a pain to install them)
Rdp not an issue unless the machine you’re rdping into is using strict AD settings that only allow connections from other AD machines, you should use Remmina imo it’s very good
Xbox one controllers should work fine, I don’t own one but I’ve used controllers that present themselves as Xbox one controllers
Only controller that hasn’t just worked perfectly straight away is PS5 and that was because of a Bluetooth setting
As for distro, bazzite is probably a pretty good one to look at, it’s immutable so there’s a limit to the amount you can break it though sometimes it can make more technical things difficult to do
MPV is a frontend by itsself, just set it as your default in your file browser and it’ll play video files if you open them
Depending on the game modding can be a challenge. If mod organizer supports it you can usually get it to work fine, anything that supports mods by default will generally be fine and Minecraft is pretty much the exact same modding experience as windows
While you can do a lot on Linux without the terminal now you shouldn’t be afraid of it as it can often be the quickest and easiest way to do things. It’s one of the big advantages of Linux in general that the terminal experience is so good
I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it’s cached
Suspend with an Nvidia gpu