NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^
You didn’t even care to relabel the axes, I don’t trust you.
Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.
But by the time you’ve learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you’ve plateued.
…I guessssss it could make sense? XD
It was about dwarf fortress, i refuse to belive otherwise
I vaguely remember it being about EvE Online, totally possible it was repurposed.
what about rogue-likes on insane? people falling from the cliff sure looks like that to me
No temple OS?
Joking aside, has anyone legitimately tried to port an app to TempleOS, just for fun?
Dude I hate you. You got my curiosity. I’ll have to look into it. Damn it.
Lol let me know if you find a good video.
The axis don’t make sense.
The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress
The original comic was very accurate
I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it’s cheap to pick up…yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I’ll ever be ready for that, haha.
As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.
Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.
That’s exactly how nixos went for me you feel like you understand it and then went to go and look at old configs after awhile and was like what in the fuck and rewrote the whole thing but once you figure it out it’s pretty easy to keep learning
When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.
The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.
About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.
I’ve been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.
Was the original a joke about MMO learning curves with the top line being Path of Exile?
I’m pretty sure I saw this with EVE Online a long time ago.
Yeah
I give up, what’s POTBS?
I’ve been searching for so long for a way to have my software and configs and project deps tracked in a way that doesn’t have me setting things up every time I switch to a new machine or–worse–opening an old project. I found some things that get me most off the way there like docker, rtx/mise, direnv, stow, or the package manager for whatever language I’m working in at a time. Still, nothing quite does what I need.
I tried our NixOS and have it on three machines as well as Nix on WSL. It took a while for me to figure it out, especially moving to flakes and separating user config out to home-manager. But it was fun enough to try and fail and fail and fail then succeed that I kept going. I think it might be what I’m looking for. I was able to set up a new machine by just cloning a repo and any time I cd into a project on NixOS or a remote Linux server or even Windows with WSL, everything is just ready for me. Do wish it were fully POSIX compliant, though.
I know this is from more of a developer perspective, but even for gaming and graphics I’ve never had an easier time getting Nvidia drivers set up.
I promise I’m not shilling. I still have a lot to learn. I think I made it past the cliff on this meme but I might be surprised.
Woohoo I’m almost driving the bulldozer… Almost
One day, one day soon I will install nixOS on my ThinkPad. Til then I will continue using silverblue like a pleb
I don’t think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.
I don’t like Anduril either, but what’s wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?
I’m with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it’s a surveillance company.
For anyone worried about the Nix drama, a fork has already happened.
You can find it under lix.systems.
Thank you, was wondering what happened there.
There’s been a couple forks but that’s not all. They are made votes to massively restructure their governance system. Things are looking up on the main nixos branch!
Windows is decidedly the green line, Debian the red.
Was thinking same. I always think windows is the easiest to get used from beginning, but that could be cause windows was the first operating system i was dealing with. Playing with the amiga 3000 could be the start, but there i was only 5
Windows XP wasn’t exactly intuitive to me and now only I know what my keybinds for Hyprland are so um maybe you’re right. Honestly switching to Ubuntu made things a lot easier for me than they were on windows because it was easier to change settings and similar just by using terminal commands rather than a weird gui or not at all.
Maybe it is the weird gui…as a kid i didnt question it and just get used to it so now it feels “natural”
Well i do need to do a quick ol distro hop cos currently on manjaro and well im not particularly happy with it. I like debian headless on mer server so might jump to sonthing based on that, this graph isnt making nix look like a good choice tho pls enlighten me to the benefits
Just get endevour for a good arch experience without the hassle.
manjaro was terrible when I used it (several years ago), imo it is fundamentally broken. I would suggest trying a smoother arch install. I always recommend endeavoros because I had an effortless experience with it.
Nix is not place that you want to go just for the hell of it.
If you want to be able to store your entire operating system config in a repo, and spread it to a bunch of other boxes, and have the ability to rollback to any point in your install history, it’s the bee’s knees.
But to do that, you need to rely on there massive community repository of apps understand their language, and be ready to fight with most uncommon packages that you might want. You can’t just install or upgrade apps anymore. Upgrading channels to get app updates as much less likely to go smoothly.
Overall for me, NixOS is a net positive but it’s not by that much. If I were going to go from scratch again I’d probably just go back to Debian. But, sunk cost fallacy I’m in it now and I need a good reason to get out of it.
NixOS documentation refusing to generate pages like readthedocs can drive a man insane…
