Debian as a base, flatpaks/nix for anything new or shiny.

For the most part this confines anything that might break to your regular user account (so you’re even less likely to break the system).

Must be on their roadmap right after the printer

The problem with a beginner using NixOS is that it teaches them, well, NixOS. Using just about any other distro will teach them transferrable skills; i.e. suffering , until they embrace ansible;)

Unless that other distro is Guix, in which case Stall man smiles upon you and I wish you the best with your ultra libre Pentium machine.

I feel obligated to mention Logseq here. It’s similar to obsidian, but FLOSS (AGPL-v3).

Be careful what you wish for… My i7-1260p failed a few months ago.

I will say though, upgrading to an ai 340 is a serious quality of life upgrade in terms of gpu and battery life. Even the NPU is useful now with the latest drivers and kernel modules.

I propose a little cultural exchange. I’m sure Framework and Fairphone could stand to do a little cross pollination.

Best of both worlds – Debian + Nix home-manager. Debian gives you incredible stability and plenty of usage resources. Nix gives you anything too new for Debian and functionally confines the more experimental end of your config to user space.

Cosmic does if memory serves. I haven’t run it since late alpha but it might be worth a try again.

I, too, hate aesthetics

(just (try (guix (bro))):))

Debian + nix home-manager is hard to beat. Confining my bleeding edge software to be rootlesson top of a bulletproof distro is very much the same – boring (in the best way). Plus the latest apt in debian 13 just feels nicer than dnf to me somehow.

Next level gaslighting. “Is the MIT license in the room with us right now?”

Here’s a quick how to from Learn Linux TV

Wait a minute. Are you wanting to get a different computer? Or boot Linux on your Mac?

The Mac themes on KDE are pretty great, and so is the customizability. KDE makes things very easy to tweak until you like it. GNOME does not.

Personally, I use NativeAlpha (PWA wrapper) and tweak the permissions until it just barely works for my needs.

My favorite tip is to set the PWA default address to instagram.com/?variant=following – which is JUST the accounts you follow with no recommended content / doom scrolling fuel.

I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge

And Guix somewhere below that

Embrace the --impure

I still think about her

@ that code: get blackd, idiot