It was actually 2022, the year when steam deck released. The proton compatibility shot through the roof. Linux now supports a far wider array of software than MacOS, even.

Still is the key word

Then you gotta go framework. The ports are all swappable. When you break a port like hdmi you’re basically fucked on a standard laptop. And laptops falling off places is basically guaranteed

I understand completely, I don’t even update until I need to. In my case, screen capture works more consistently with Wayland than x11.

Xwayland should work basically forever, so there’s no reason to rewrite anything. In time those features will get implemented, but I’m guessing you will need to change the scripts to use something other than wmctrl unless that particular program gets updated

What is the use case that doesn’t work for you? Mine was Nvidia and now it’s working on gnome at least

If only x11 worked well in the first place. But its many flaws are never going to addressed because the developers only work on Wayland

Haha, try installing anything on NixOS before learning how to program

Isn’t there a last modified time stamp on files?

If a file has not been modified, why does it need to be scanned?

In other words, NixOS is based

Doesn’t let you just do whatever you want. I turned off the windows firewall in windows 7 and went on with my life. Windows 11 wouldn’t let me download updates with the firewall off.

Unusable on a hard drive, would just freeze while scanning all your files. Wouldn’t let you turn it off

I’ll tell you why I use it: to use open source software. I noticed whatever freemium program I used on Windows that was cool eventually got enshittified and became spyware. Like fucking clockwork, the author of uTorrent sold out and all the new versions became cancer

Linux has better support for a lot of open source software, you can use a package manager to download most of it, and flatpak for a bunch that’s not there

It’s just so much easier than trying to find the official site for the program you want.

Now that I think about it, that original meme was not true either. My friends always argued about windows vs. Mac, and continued to Android vs. iPhone

Like, people talk about OSes in general conversation

I use NixOS, FWIW

Google is the Google of Linux. They actually make their own distro

Spent a ton of time trying to install GrapheneOS because web USB doesn’t work in snap version of chrome. How about letting me install the normal deb version? Nope, can’t let the user choose

I found this that might help:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-use-a-local-directory-as-a-nix-binary-cache/655/13

Nix is better for CLI programs since it also figured out how to avoid dependency hell