It’s pretty easy to bundle a minimal Java runtime with a modular application with jlink

Out of all the distros I’ve tried, I would say Debian has the most consistent and overarching theming. I suggest trying Debian, learning how their theme packages work, and creating one for your personal brand.

The one editor that pulled me away from Vim. Didn’t think that was possible.

If you’re new I suggest not using flakes. You can always switch to them when you learn how to maintain NixOS.

Isn’t the MIT license independent of the choice of Rust?

Stock GNOME. No extensions.

Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix

I distro hopped from NixOS, to Arch Linux, and back. I really liked Arch but pacman never grew on me.

Yep. NixOS inspired me to write my very first package manager package. I distro hopped to Arch Linux and wrote a PKGBUILD for that.

I’m back on NixOS

For anything more complicated than an alias, I tend to suck it up and write a program. I used to keep launcher scripts in ~/bin but I’ve recently taken to creating package manager packages for them. I’ve learned how to do that with NixOS and Arch Linux and I peeked at the Debian documentation.

Why don’t you like Debian?

man man

Why in the world is -S used for install?

The only reason I’m hanging onto Windows at the moment is Apple Music

I’ve been using Linux for years and years. I get the subjective sense it is a system built by engineers for engineers. I can examine, poke, prod, and break every aspect of the system. I consider that a bonus and it’s how I learn about computers.

I can fly through the system with my terminal

Etc

Edit: Centralized software package and dependency management is awesome

I installed Arch for the very first time this past weekend. I am a software engineer with almost 30 years experience and some time less with Linux. I did my research beforehand: I watched a manual installation on YouTube and I went over the wiki.

And the manual installation was hard. I would not recommend it to a beginner.

he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

This isn’t Arch, sorry. My own Arch didn’t boot the first time (but yes I was able to fix it quickly).

Debian.

I would call Visual Studio Code a success story for them

I moved from Debian unstable to NixOS this past Saturday. It’s been…interesting. I’m fighting the urge to run screaming back to Debian.

I tried purging Git from my system last night as an experiment. Try as I might I couldn’t get all references to it to disappear from the Nix store. I disabled it from configuration.nix and Home Manager. Removed all system and Home Manager generations except the current. Still there after various combinations of nix-channel --update, nixos-rebuild switch, and home-manager switch.

And I still don’t know about the quality of its trackpad or speakers.

I have a Framework 13 and I’m pretty thrilled with it. I’m happy with the trackpad and the speakers. It wouldn’t surprise me if a modern MacBook’s are better but I’m satisfied just the same.