Wine 10.19 Released With More Improvements
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Wine 10.19 Released With More Improvements
Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux.
A small dive into the software I use...and "just ditch Adobe" isn't good enough for creatives.
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TLDR.
The shape of creatives on linux isnt bad, but its not great either...and its hard to justify when you can use any tool on the other two platforms just fine without a second thought, and i fear gaming is being focused too much on vs the overall useage as PCs are much more for gaming...
This post, mainly fueled by the recent announcement of the Steam Machine and people clamoring for it and its OS.
and to be clear, its a good device, i have no qualms with it.
But I do feel there are giant holes that "it's just for gaming" really gloss over deeper issues that will hamper adoption, OVERALL, big time. This pertains to "the desktop is just for gaming," and I've been fighting this for years, and there's no one I know who hasn't dipped out of gaming, at some point, to do other things.
Some background, I am currently a film student, I am getting a degree in 3D Animation. I have done a LOT of 3d work before starting this degree, but starting college has only widened my software palette
i still game a lot, i would gauge i spend roughly 50/50 in software and gaming. In fact, it is not uncommon for me to have a game open whilst I create, especially if I am using it for reference, or in the case of Blockbench, I will have Minecraft open to check what it's doing in-game.
What i have done is i have compiled ever bit of software ive had to use in and out of school, then highlighted what is currently in my software stack, and then what OS it uses.
For the most part, i have a MOSTLY adobe free suite. With only the Substance Suite being my main app. (and for transparency, these are bought on steam as perpetual)
But even taking Adobe out of this chart, entirely.... and swapping it out for say, 3Dcoat, is still just under half of the software on the list with 9/19 natively supporting linux (with Substance Suite removed)
On top of this, only half of the Linux-supported applications explicitly say they support a common distro like Ubuntu or Mint, with Houdini outright listing a ton.
The problem with this, is all it takes is a cranky support person to not help you, because you're not on the right distro.
There are also other considerations. I have carefully built my software over the years to require Nvidia as little as possible...I currently run an all-Radeon workstation. However, this has its limits and has boxed me in more than a few times.
Maya has Linux support listed. Arnold, its renderer, does not support Radeon. Cuda only.
i eat rendering on it with my TR
Agisoft Metashape was the only photogrammetry program I found that didn't solely rely on CUDA for depth maps, instead using OpenCL and Vulkan.
From what I understand, NVIDIA support on Linux is still very poor.
And yes, I fully understand wine and bottles, etc, exist, but that's not the point of this post.
This whole list, has full Mac and Windows support, minus a single app (and max to be fair is derlict as all hell and idk why its still in use so much)
But as someone who lives doing this, i could jump to mac without a second thought (for whatever reason)
But for linux? its still not an option.
sure. i could fight and i'm positive i could get a lot of apps if maybe not all of these to function.
But when you are in the creative groove, the last thing I want to do is have to figure out WHY a piece of software isn't working and by the time it's working, have that iron no longer be hot and I've wasted a night.
Even running Radeon hardware, which is something most people will go pale at when you're running in a creative space...if its on windows, 99% chance i can pick it up, learn it and use it.
probably closer to 95% on mac...
and this doesnt account for things like community addons to already natively supported linux apps that may not work in linux...
i tried ubuntu back in 2020, my workstation then was a 3900x with Dual
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TLDR.
The shape of creatives on linux isnt bad, but its not great either...and its hard to justify when you can use any tool on the other two platforms just fine without a second thought, and i fear gaming is being focused too much on vs the overall useage as PCs are much more for gaming...
This post, mainly fueled by the recent announcement of the Steam Machine and people clamoring for it and its OS.
and to be clear, its a good device, i have no qualms with it.
But I do feel there are giant holes that "it's just for gaming" really gloss over deeper issues that will hamper adoption, OVERALL, big time. This pertains to "the desktop is just for gaming," and I've been fighting this for years, and there's no one I know who hasn't dipped out of gaming, at some point, to do other things.
Some background, I am currently a film student, I am getting a degree in 3D Animation. I have done a LOT of 3d work before starting this degree, but starting college has only widened my software palette
i still game a lot, i would gauge i spend roughly 50/50 in software and gaming. In fact, it is not uncommon for me to have a game open whilst I create, especially if I am using it for reference, or in the case of Blockbench, I will have Minecraft open to check what it's doing in-game.
What i have done is i have compiled ever bit of software ive had to use in and out of school, then highlighted what is currently in my software stack, and then what OS it uses.
For the most part, i have a MOSTLY adobe free suite. With only the Substance Suite being my main app. (and for transparency, these are bought on steam as perpetual)
But even taking Adobe out of this chart, entirely.... and swapping it out for say, 3Dcoat, is still just under half of the software on the list with 9/19 natively supporting linux (with Substance Suite removed)
On top of this, only half of the Linux-supported applications explicitly say they support a common distro like Ubuntu or Mint, with Houdini outright listing a ton.
The problem with this, is all it takes is a cranky support person to not help you, because you're not on the right distro.
There are also other considerations. I have carefully built my software over the years to require Nvidia as little as possible...I currently run an all-Radeon workstation. However, this has its limits and has boxed me in more than a few times.
Maya has Linux support listed. Arnold, its renderer, does not support Radeon. Cuda only.
i eat rendering on it with my TR
Agisoft Metashape was the only photogrammetry program I found that didn't solely rely on CUDA for depth maps, instead using OpenCL and Vulkan.
From what I understand, NVIDIA support on Linux is still very poor.
And yes, I fully understand wine and bottles, etc, exist, but that's not the point of this post.
This whole list, has full Mac and Windows support, minus a single app (and max to be fair is derlict as all hell and idk why its still in use so much)
But as someone who lives doing this, i could jump to mac without a second thought (for whatever reason)
But for linux? its still not an option.
sure. i could fight and i'm positive i could get a lot of apps if maybe not all of these to function.
But when you are in the creative groove, the last thing I want to do is have to figure out WHY a piece of software isn't working and by the time it's working, have that iron no longer be hot and I've wasted a night.
Even running Radeon hardware, which is something most people will go pale at when you're running in a creative space...if its on windows, 99% chance i can pick it up, learn it and use it.
probably closer to 95% on mac...
and this doesnt account for things like community addons to already natively supported linux apps that may not work in linux...
i tried ubuntu back in 2020, my workstation then was a 3900x with Dual
Vega 56 Cards, i was using Blender with the Luxcore Render engine....
Blender worked fine, but i had to install ubuntu despite i tried starting with mint. (for the proprietary AMD drivers needed for OpenCL rendering...i imagine it is the same for HIP these days)
Cycles in OpenCL mode worked beautifully.
Luxcore crashed the system so hard i got to learn what happens when a graphics shit themselves with no BSOD.... after configuring the drivers and also trying ROCM for its OpenCL extensions....and pretty much getting told by devs of luxcore, "FO" (and already having had a utterly awful time setting up network drivers, and it being days at this point) i went back to windows and currently have no plans of going back..... and i dont see it improving for linux any time soon with people so hard focused on gaming
The Grand hope is, something like the steam machine leads to more people on linux, thus developers, and i hope that is the case. more is good and we need it in the computer space.
However, as someone whose computer has always been more than just for gaming...a box of imagination. I need to be able to use it, full stop and not question it otherwise.
Swapping tools isnt always an option, either. Learning tools is a giant, giant time sink. Different apps that, despite competing in the same space, frequently don't offer the same gamut of tools or possibilities.
Blender for example....It can't touch the poly counts Zbrush hits, not by a LONG shot. and Blender is STILL not as pen friendly as Zbrush
World creator, Vulkan-based and hyper-focused on terrain generation.... it does 1 thing and it does it EXTREMELY well.
Substance painter is still borderline unmatched...3Dcoat is good, but its not the same.
Maya and Blender do the same thing but are built so fundamentally differently, a full switch over can take weeks if not months....
i STILL cannot model in maya....but i have almost 11k hours in blender.
However, the time it takes to shift programs is something that isn't talked about enough, especially if you're on the clock and time is very much money to you.
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Blender worked fine, but i had to install ubuntu despite i tried starting with mint. (for the proprietary AMD drivers needed for OpenCL rendering...i imagine it is the same for HIP these days)
Cycles in OpenCL mode worked beautifully.
Luxcore crashed the system so hard i got to learn what happens when a graphics shit themselves with no BSOD.... after configuring the drivers and also trying ROCM for its OpenCL extensions....and pretty much getting told by devs of luxcore, "FO" (and already having had a utterly awful time setting up network drivers, and it being days at this point) i went back to windows and currently have no plans of going back..... and i dont see it improving for linux any time soon with people so hard focused on gaming
The Grand hope is, something like the steam machine leads to more people on linux, thus developers, and i hope that is the case. more is good and we need it in the computer space.
However, as someone whose computer has always been more than just for gaming...a box of imagination. I need to be able to use it, full stop and not question it otherwise.
Swapping tools isnt always an option, either. Learning tools is a giant, giant time sink. Different apps that, despite competing in the same space, frequently don't offer the same gamut of tools or possibilities.
Blender for example....It can't touch the poly counts Zbrush hits, not by a LONG shot. and Blender is STILL not as pen friendly as Zbrush
World creator, Vulkan-based and hyper-focused on terrain generation.... it does 1 thing and it does it EXTREMELY well.
Substance painter is still borderline unmatched...3Dcoat is good, but its not the same.
Maya and Blender do the same thing but are built so fundamentally differently, a full switch over can take weeks if not months....
i STILL cannot model in maya....but i have almost 11k hours in blender.
However, the time it takes to shift programs is something that isn't talked about enough, especially if you're on the clock and time is very much money to you.
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This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements - KDE Blogs
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/15/this-week-in-plasma-ocr-in-spectacle-and-many-ui-improvements/
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This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text!
This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text!
GitHub - captainzero93/security_harden_linux: Semi-automated security hardening for Linux / Debian / Ubuntu , 2025, attempts DISA STIG and CIS Compliance v4.2
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Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?
I'll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven't tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?
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I'll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven't tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?
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GitHub - 5hubham5ingh/WallRizz: A terminal-based wallpaper selector and system theme manager. It also enables browsing and downloading…
A terminal-based wallpaper selector and system theme manager. It also enables browsing and downloading wallpapers from various wallpaper collection repositories on GitHub. - 5hubham5ingh/WallRizz
How often do you misstype sl?
I was just asked this and remembered, that I can actually answer this pretty accurately (12k lines history)
its about 7.8%
➜ \~ grep sl \~/.zsh_history | wc
188 922 8144
➜ \~ grep ls \~/.zsh_history | wc
2227 5287 47739
➜ \~ bc -l
(188/(2227+188))*100
7.78467908902691511300
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I was just asked this and remembered, that I can actually answer this pretty accurately (12k lines history)
its about 7.8%
➜ \~ grep sl \~/.zsh_history | wc
188 922 8144
➜ \~ grep ls \~/.zsh_history | wc
2227 5287 47739
➜ \~ bc -l
(188/(2227+188))*100
7.78467908902691511300
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ASCII map fin
Just found this and it brings me joy beyond measure.
In CLI "telnet mapscii.me"
Use A and Z to zoom in and out!
Found my house on it with a little bit of trial and error! It's remarkably accurate for being ascii
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Just found this and it brings me joy beyond measure.
In CLI "telnet mapscii.me"
Use A and Z to zoom in and out!
Found my house on it with a little bit of trial and error! It's remarkably accurate for being ascii
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How do you secure a linux desktop?
i use debian, btw
i use sid/unstable.
we hear a lot about linux such as "linux is safe and most servers run on linux"
but i came to realize that its only true for server installation or headless system. out of the box it maybe super secure.
but a lot of famous yt guys said its a lie when it comes to linux desktop. it's not safer than windows default defender. but we can make it secure.
i use ufw and fail2ban
but are these enough. what precautions do you take
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i use debian, btw
i use sid/unstable.
we hear a lot about linux such as "linux is safe and most servers run on linux"
but i came to realize that its only true for server installation or headless system. out of the box it maybe super secure.
but a lot of famous yt guys said its a lie when it comes to linux desktop. it's not safer than windows default defender. but we can make it secure.
i use ufw and fail2ban
but are these enough. what precautions do you take
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Alacritty worse than Konsole?
When I do some stress testing on both, alacritty differs from konsole by extremely marginally, like 5%. The difference is Alacritty eats like 2x the amount of cpu usage as konsole and a minor amount of gpu (like 2%, but konsole is technically 0%).
I tried a whole bunch of stress tests like yes'ing chinese liguatures, catting massive binary files, and other stress tests like that.
How exactly is Alacritty better than konsole? I hear so many people rave about how performant it is, but from my tests it seems to be very much not so. Is there some form of settings i have to switch or something?
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When I do some stress testing on both, alacritty differs from konsole by extremely marginally, like 5%. The difference is Alacritty eats like 2x the amount of cpu usage as konsole and a minor amount of gpu (like 2%, but konsole is technically 0%).
I tried a whole bunch of stress tests like yes'ing chinese liguatures, catting massive binary files, and other stress tests like that.
How exactly is Alacritty better than konsole? I hear so many people rave about how performant it is, but from my tests it seems to be very much not so. Is there some form of settings i have to switch or something?
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Will Snapdragon mobile processors be better supported now thanks to the Steam Deck?
I just saw this frame and was impressed by the fact that it is using the Snapdragon 8 chip, which, to my understanding, is mainly a mobile chip, and it still has a full-fledged desktop OS on it. Could the work for that bring more ARM devices with that chip and better Linux support for it?
I may be wrong, but to my understanding, there is no Linux distro fully supporting a Snapdragon 8 chip at the moment.
I would love to see portable devices based on this chip in the future, like ultra-slim laptops or big tablets with Linux, not Android.
Please tell me your opinion on this.
Thank you
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I just saw this frame and was impressed by the fact that it is using the Snapdragon 8 chip, which, to my understanding, is mainly a mobile chip, and it still has a full-fledged desktop OS on it. Could the work for that bring more ARM devices with that chip and better Linux support for it?
I may be wrong, but to my understanding, there is no Linux distro fully supporting a Snapdragon 8 chip at the moment.
I would love to see portable devices based on this chip in the future, like ultra-slim laptops or big tablets with Linux, not Android.
Please tell me your opinion on this.
Thank you
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Get involved
Whether you're new to linux or have been around since the 90s, get involved.
Find a project you like and learn it. Post issues on github. Issues aren't a bad thing - they could be suggestions.
Get 1 person to switch to Linux.
Find a LUG (Linux User Group) around you and attend.
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Whether you're new to linux or have been around since the 90s, get involved.
Find a project you like and learn it. Post issues on github. Issues aren't a bad thing - they could be suggestions.
Get 1 person to switch to Linux.
Find a LUG (Linux User Group) around you and attend.
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linux really isnt that complicated
hi
im someone who recently switched from windows, ive known linux for a long time, ive heard much about it but just never really bothered on switching to it since windows did everything i wanted, now recently windows has annoyed me a bit in certain aspects and so i was ready to switch.
first thing first...... picking the right distro
i within a few hours decided on fedora, if im going to be fully honest - i dont really have an actual reason on why specifically fedora, i just picked that distro because i saw fedora with KDE gui and thought it looked cooler than mint with cinammon or ubuntu
so yeah thats literally it
even though thats literally just a gui and....... yeah i know
gui itself isnt "fedora", its kde
i can also have fedora with gnome or xfce or whatever and same applies with other distros
i know
so far..... it has been good
like the install itself was incredibly simple, the few days that ive spent only using fedora has been good
wifi works, bluetooth works, my keyboard works, my mouse works
everything
i can change my wallpaper within 2-3 clicks, literally just right clicking the desktop and then clicking "wallpaper" option and thats it, or if i want to add my own custom wallpaper, i just need to click the "add" button on top right corner
THATS IT
firefox is already installed
there is also a "software centre" which is basically like a better version of the microsoft store, but i noticed..... where is the task manager? OH right all i have to do is install the "resources" app from the software centre and thats it, its basically the same thing as the task manager on windows
cool
audio works
i installed steam and discord without any hassle either, the simple few step guide was on the docs fedora site
discord did required me to extract the file, which is just 1 click extra, thats all
and then finding an executable file in that folder, thats all, took me 5 secs to find the file
now i have discord
simple right?
\+ there was a github repo which told me how to install the nvidia drivers, rpmfusion and all that
i just copy pasted the codes into terminal. thats it, copy pasting
and after 15 mins thats it, rebooted my pc
yeah
"oh but what about updates?" in the software centre app, you have the "update" tab
\+ you can just type "sudo dnf update" in the terminal, boom
thats it
simple
like how isnt linux for everyone? this assumes that people who arent for linux should just go back to windows but honestly fedora has been so simple
like its only slightly slightly more technical than windows but thats about it
like if something like fedora or mint just isnt for someone then neither is windows
that person should learn on how to use a computer first, like this is SIMPLE
the only potential issue that i can think of is just the app support, a lot of apps dont support linux but there are a buttload of alternatives so yeah
linux is easy
at least the beginner distros, i know gentoo exists, yeah
it looks scary
but fedora, mint, ubuntu, POP os, its barely any harder than windows
like if someone finds these distros really difficult then same thing applies to windows, the person just doesnt know how to use a comptuer at that point
like fedora is even a tiny bit harder because you dont get certain things that you do get with mint or ubuntu hence why i mentioned that github repo AND EVEN THEN, its EASY, its just copy pasting
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hi
im someone who recently switched from windows, ive known linux for a long time, ive heard much about it but just never really bothered on switching to it since windows did everything i wanted, now recently windows has annoyed me a bit in certain aspects and so i was ready to switch.
first thing first...... picking the right distro
i within a few hours decided on fedora, if im going to be fully honest - i dont really have an actual reason on why specifically fedora, i just picked that distro because i saw fedora with KDE gui and thought it looked cooler than mint with cinammon or ubuntu
so yeah thats literally it
even though thats literally just a gui and....... yeah i know
gui itself isnt "fedora", its kde
i can also have fedora with gnome or xfce or whatever and same applies with other distros
i know
so far..... it has been good
like the install itself was incredibly simple, the few days that ive spent only using fedora has been good
wifi works, bluetooth works, my keyboard works, my mouse works
everything
i can change my wallpaper within 2-3 clicks, literally just right clicking the desktop and then clicking "wallpaper" option and thats it, or if i want to add my own custom wallpaper, i just need to click the "add" button on top right corner
THATS IT
firefox is already installed
there is also a "software centre" which is basically like a better version of the microsoft store, but i noticed..... where is the task manager? OH right all i have to do is install the "resources" app from the software centre and thats it, its basically the same thing as the task manager on windows
cool
audio works
i installed steam and discord without any hassle either, the simple few step guide was on the docs fedora site
discord did required me to extract the file, which is just 1 click extra, thats all
and then finding an executable file in that folder, thats all, took me 5 secs to find the file
now i have discord
simple right?
\+ there was a github repo which told me how to install the nvidia drivers, rpmfusion and all that
i just copy pasted the codes into terminal. thats it, copy pasting
and after 15 mins thats it, rebooted my pc
yeah
"oh but what about updates?" in the software centre app, you have the "update" tab
\+ you can just type "sudo dnf update" in the terminal, boom
thats it
simple
like how isnt linux for everyone? this assumes that people who arent for linux should just go back to windows but honestly fedora has been so simple
like its only slightly slightly more technical than windows but thats about it
like if something like fedora or mint just isnt for someone then neither is windows
that person should learn on how to use a computer first, like this is SIMPLE
the only potential issue that i can think of is just the app support, a lot of apps dont support linux but there are a buttload of alternatives so yeah
linux is easy
at least the beginner distros, i know gentoo exists, yeah
it looks scary
but fedora, mint, ubuntu, POP os, its barely any harder than windows
like if someone finds these distros really difficult then same thing applies to windows, the person just doesnt know how to use a comptuer at that point
like fedora is even a tiny bit harder because you dont get certain things that you do get with mint or ubuntu hence why i mentioned that github repo AND EVEN THEN, its EASY, its just copy pasting
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Patched drm2 Ubuntu 24.04 packages for fixing the 3 second delay when opening apps in X11 in VMware (fixes KDE stuttering!)
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PSA: Intel Arc GPU users
If you're having issues with crashes in game with the latest kernel (6.17), switch over to LTS (6.12) as latest seems to have a regression preventing it from correctly getting info on drm and GPU power limits.
I was having this for the better part of a week, tried far too complicated solutions like installing the latest development branch of Mesa drivers only to realize the solution was the simpler one so saving you guys the trouble here lol
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If you're having issues with crashes in game with the latest kernel (6.17), switch over to LTS (6.12) as latest seems to have a regression preventing it from correctly getting info on drm and GPU power limits.
I was having this for the better part of a week, tried far too complicated solutions like installing the latest development branch of Mesa drivers only to realize the solution was the simpler one so saving you guys the trouble here lol
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New to NixOS – Loving it so far, but curious what experts think
I have always found Linux overwhelming when it comes to installing apps. There are multiple package managers, they all work differently, and sometimes you have to do things manually. I just could not wrap my head around it.
Then I came across NixOS and it completely changed the game for me. Everything is unified in one config file: apps, system settings, shortcuts, users, and more. Personally, I find this very comforting.
Recently I ran into a small hiccup. An app would not run because it was looking for a library in the usual place such as /bin or /sbin, but NixOS had installed it somewhere else. It was still easy enough to figure out.
As a complete Linux newbie I really like NixOS. I am curious what the experts here think about it and what pros and cons I should be aware of as I keep exploring.
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I have always found Linux overwhelming when it comes to installing apps. There are multiple package managers, they all work differently, and sometimes you have to do things manually. I just could not wrap my head around it.
Then I came across NixOS and it completely changed the game for me. Everything is unified in one config file: apps, system settings, shortcuts, users, and more. Personally, I find this very comforting.
Recently I ran into a small hiccup. An app would not run because it was looking for a library in the usual place such as /bin or /sbin, but NixOS had installed it somewhere else. It was still easy enough to figure out.
As a complete Linux newbie I really like NixOS. I am curious what the experts here think about it and what pros and cons I should be aware of as I keep exploring.
https://redd.it/1oypsl5
@r_linux
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