I’m really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I’ve been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I’m feeling excited about. I don’t know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol
(NixOS isn’t really in the running… I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)
You can just use a distrobox …
The package manager isn’t that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.
Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.
I thought I’d read that somewhere. I haven’t had an issue with neofetch yet, but I suppose I should switch.
Yeah, Neo is dead and no longer developed or supported.
Fast is fantastic and actively developed.
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:
fastfetch -c neofetchEDIT:
Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my
.zshrcfile so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetchDisagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions
That’s neat how that’s been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.
(Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I’m looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)
Is nix already “normie” compatible? It has to become much easier.
I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.
Same for flatpak, it’s on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement
the UIs for things like configs are not really usable in my experience, unless someone found something that works better
Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).
Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don’t have immich.
On the other hand, if by “normie” you mean “running a browser and some flatpaks”, nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there’s no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.
That’s probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. “Normies” ad in “non-techies” won’t easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.
The one exception here: it’s great to have it installed on your parents’ PC when you’re the one doing the update once in a while when you are around. Rock solid in between, no nagging, and if something did break, easy to roll back.