Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix

I distro hopped from NixOS, to Arch Linux, and back. I really liked Arch but pacman never grew on me.

Yep. NixOS inspired me to write my very first package manager package. I distro hopped to Arch Linux and wrote a PKGBUILD for that.

I’m back on NixOS

For anything more complicated than an alias, I tend to suck it up and write a program. I used to keep launcher scripts in ~/bin but I’ve recently taken to creating package manager packages for them. I’ve learned how to do that with NixOS and Arch Linux and I peeked at the Debian documentation.

Why don’t you like Debian?

man man

Why in the world is -S used for install?

The only reason I’m hanging onto Windows at the moment is Apple Music

I’ve been using Linux for years and years. I get the subjective sense it is a system built by engineers for engineers. I can examine, poke, prod, and break every aspect of the system. I consider that a bonus and it’s how I learn about computers.

I can fly through the system with my terminal

Etc

Edit: Centralized software package and dependency management is awesome

I installed Arch for the very first time this past weekend. I am a software engineer with almost 30 years experience and some time less with Linux. I did my research beforehand: I watched a manual installation on YouTube and I went over the wiki.

And the manual installation was hard. I would not recommend it to a beginner.

he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

This isn’t Arch, sorry. My own Arch didn’t boot the first time (but yes I was able to fix it quickly).

Debian.

I would call Visual Studio Code a success story for them

I moved from Debian unstable to NixOS this past Saturday. It’s been…interesting. I’m fighting the urge to run screaming back to Debian.

I tried purging Git from my system last night as an experiment. Try as I might I couldn’t get all references to it to disappear from the Nix store. I disabled it from configuration.nix and Home Manager. Removed all system and Home Manager generations except the current. Still there after various combinations of nix-channel --update, nixos-rebuild switch, and home-manager switch.

Please tell us your birthday

And I still don’t know about the quality of its trackpad or speakers.

I have a Framework 13 and I’m pretty thrilled with it. I’m happy with the trackpad and the speakers. It wouldn’t surprise me if a modern MacBook’s are better but I’m satisfied just the same.

I did mine in plain old HTML. No JavaScript.

I get the first reminder at 15 minutes IIRC. Does Digital Wellbeing have the permissions it needs?

Best show on television

On my Pixel RCS read receipts are optional. I imagine that’s the same for iPhones but I am not 100% sure.

I imagine on macOS it’s the same; Messages or nothing. No separate clients are involved.