Debian + Nix + Flatpak is a pretty sweet combo!

Relevant :)

I think the real question is what do you want to learn?

If you want to learn Linux for a job I would recommend Fedora. The packages are up there with Arch in terms of being close to latest. SELinux, a security architecture, is standard in the RHEL ecosystem (Fedora is the testing distro for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). DNF gets a lot of flak for being slow but with the recent update to DNF5 in Fedora 41 there are noticeable improvements.

If you want to learn what’s going on under the hood in traditional Linux, use Arch.

If you want guard rails so you don’t break things, use an immutable distro like Bluefin.

Heck, distro hop for a bit so you learn how to answer this question for yourself :) – you can check out separate home partitions so you can change distros, or install multiple, without getting rid of all of your settings / data. Use nix package manager and home-manager so you can reproduce your configs when you distro hop.

Don’t think too hard about the DE. You can always switch to a new one. I generally keep 2-3 DEs on my system at a time so I can change it up at the login screen if the mood strikes. It takes all of 15 min to get set up for an absolute newbie.

That’s a great point. I suppose Framework wasn’t necessarily the one to push for this.

The fact that they are fine with holding approval authority implicates them in my mind. Though, I guess this is tougher when form factors are open source and all parts are very easy to find. DeepComputing can kind of make whatever they want (with whatever restrictions they want) and naturally be associated with Framework’s brand.

Any external sharing of user experiences of the Early Access Program must be approved by DeepComputing and Framework before publication.

Yikes. I like Framework (have had one for a few years now) but this is not what I expect from them at all.

Once they drop this requirement and get to normal (removable) memory and storage I’d pay double this though!

Oh even better! Thanks for the note

Agreed. The only way I see this helping the community is if folks post the outcome of discussions in a searchable way, like on the official Discourse. Most don’t.

If you’re determined to join a group like this, the Nix/NixOS Matrix is a better option since it’s already 4k+ strong.

I’ve heard that a lot of custom domains get filtered by tech giants. Have you experienced any problems like that? I agree it would be nice and self hosting it is pretty straightforward.

Like?

This offers no features over the embedded calendar in the mail app. Not even widgets.

What is an option then?

I agree, the CLI is good enough. Thanks for the note about the GUI package manager! I hadn’t heard about that.

I also second the positive interactions. Mine have been almost exclusively positive. I’ve come across a few no effort “RTFM, idiot” attitudes but it’s rarer on Nix forums and repos than I’ve seen elsewhere.

https://alternativeto.net/software/diagramly/

Thanks for the note on Ditaa. I didn’t know it existed but I love the idea of rendering bitmaps from ASCII, especially on the web. It’s like Mermaid but the original syntax is a diagram in and of itself!

Like the author writes:

There is a number of formats that are text-based (html, docbook, LaTeX, programming language comments), but when rendered by other software (browsers, interpreters, the javadoc tool etc), they can contain images as part of their content. If ditaa was intergrated with those tools (and I’m planning to do the javadoc bit myself soon), then you would have readable/editable diagrams within the text format itself, something that would make things much easier. ditaa syntax can currently be embedded to HTML.

pysic

Right, for a paper physics problem. Try telling someone to multiply their hand by -1.

The only thing I don’t like about this is the implication of a left hand rule for left hand threads, which makes my E&M physics brain sad

Oh that’s so cool! Thanks for the link.

When you say you host it live on Codeberg, do you mean something akin to GitHub pages? I didn’t know that existed

comin’ from one of those de-gens from up country, pick a fun name and sortyerselfout

I use this on my system! It’s been the only declarative flatpak mechanism I’ve gotten to work. Simple, easy to configure, and a descriptive systemd log. What more could you ask for