https://fedidb.org/network/instance/phijkchu.com

6000 MAU, 46K users, top local videos have views in the hundreds

People here running *nix OSes while I run a Nix*OS

Nix is the best packaging system. One of the best kept secrets is you can download old packages from github and it will install old deps into a different folder. Very useful for just downloading the exact wine version you want or keeping a broken package at the version it still worked on. I’d use bottles, but the wine versions it provided were not the latest!

So NixOS, being based on Nix is the best distro

NixOS store (app folder) is read only. You literally can’t mess with it. It doesn’t really need a container, most things are locked down already. Of course you could mess up your home folder, but that’s on you then

Yes

You spend a lot of time fighting snaps. I wanted to install GrapheneOS which needs direct access to USB from the browser. Snaps can’t do that, so I had to hunt for a chromium .deb on the web. Might as well use windows if I’m doing to Google “$software installer”

Not showing engagement is a choice, they don’t want people to interact with the most popular things

But everyone just wants Twitter, not someone’s ideas of what social media should be

Because it doesn’t have search (at least my instance doesn’t), doesn’t show engagement so the whole thing feels empty like people are posting into the void

It’s only correct if the picture features five men

Which is exactly what you can do in linux, live patch the kernel and carry on

So you never did windows update

NixOS solved this. You can install both deps from two different channels.

Except when it force closes your computer when you dismiss the windows update too many times

Most normal people only ever use the browser. Even image or video editing is niche for the average person

NixOS builds are all vetted

Found the guy who never updated his windows since ME

That’s why I use NixOS. 100,000 packages so you really found something niche if it didn’t have it

I haven’t had a driver issue except for Nvidia where the driver exists, but it sucks

I remember going to source forge to download MPC-BE

Later found out that they were adding adware to executables

I got this when I didn’t have the correct .NET installed