I’d just like to interject for a moment…
I’m not sure if that’s the joke and it flew over my head but isn’t editing with sudo what you should be doing anyway if it’s a system level file? You shouldn’t change permissions unless the file is actually supposed to be owned by your user.
I would say willingness to learn and to compromise. And by compromise i’m mainly talking about trying to find alternatives to software that might not exist on linux, and see if those work for you. And if you end up finding a piece of software you need that really has no good alternative to what you need, you can always either go the virtual machine route, or the dualboot route, but i personally think that should be considered a last resort.
As a NixOS user i don’t see the problem lol
I love that alternative copypasta where the alpine user corrects the gnu/linux guy and he just fucking dies.
I said i never experienced this problem with runit, not that it can’t happen. It was anecdotal.
Alright man, fact remains i was just making a silly joke, you don’t have to be poettering’s pr team lol
Pretty sure i’ve had this happen with services i didn’t even create, but yeah it was just a joke, i don’t care about init systems, but i don’t recall this ever happening when i was using runit.
Ah i see. I don’t use kde so i thought maybe there was another wallpaper tool i hadn’t heard of lol
How did you get a clock on your wallpaper like that? Is it a plasma widget?
Yeah, i’m realizing more and more how convenient those variables are. I recently started using gtklock for example, a screenlocker that also has separate modules for extra functionality, which are also in nixpkgs, but the problem is that you have to explicitly specify the path to those modules in the config. So i wrote the config inside of home manager, and pointed to the modules path with the pkgs.foo variables. Worked like a charm.
I use NixOS, it appealed to me because i got to a point where i liked minimal distros like arch and void and i could build them up exactly the way i like them to be, however i didn’t like how i would have to go through that whole process again if i wanted to do a reinstall. With NixOS i can still craft my OS the way i like it, with the benefit of it being saved as a config, and easy to restore. I did make my own post-install script for void but NixOS is a more solid solution compared to my own janky script. I’m hoping to finally settle down on this distro. I guess the upside to the huge learning curve with nix is that it’s a good motivator to not abandon it because it would feel like my efforts to learn it would go to waste lol.
I think nix being slang for nichts is a coincidence, because it actually comes from the dutch word “niks”, which also means nothing. I think this is mentioned on the NixOS website somewhere.
Fair enough. I wasn’t aware you actually had that problem yourself, i thought you just looked it up to prove a point lol. I do think it’s a weird decision that niri doesn’t just have xwayland built-in. Even river has native xwayland support, which is much more focused on minimalism. I haven’t used niri all that much because so far haven’t really been able to get used to scrolling. I think i still prefer dynamic tilers with a layout system. I should probably try booting up a game in niri to see if i can replicate it.
I think it does work, but from my understanding when nested inside another wayland session, thing like vrr don’t work, which brings me back to the xorg problem, but my current workaround works for me, so now it’s just a matter of hoping it will improve and become less tedious.
Issue is already closed though and might have more to do with xwayland itself it seems. Also fwiw, i just tested steam on niri with xwayland-satellite a few weeks ago and it worked just fine.
Yeah it’s at the point where i’m wondering if i still even need xorg. I’m still keeping it around just in case for now, but i could very easily purge it from my system anytime since i’m using nixos and all my xorg related settings are in a specific file. The main pet peeve i have with wayland is gaming related, and should hopefully improve when wine and proton go native wayland. I have a dual monitor setup and games always choose the wrong monitor by default, which means i can only use the resolution and refreshrate of the secondary monitor. I have a keybind to set the primary xwayland monitor with xrandr, which solves the problem, but it is a bit hacky. I also need to toggle vrr on and off with a keybind because it causes flickering on my monitor. It’s a bit annoying but atleast it works, on xorg you can’t even use vrr with multi monitor to begin with.
What’s wrong about that statement? Try installing SteamOS on Nvidia hardware and tell me how it went ;) why do you think Bazzite exists in the first place? SteamOS in it’s current state is not meant to be installed on other hardware, it’s a recovery image for the deck. Sure, if you have compatible AMD hardware you COULD do it, but you can’t even choose which drive to install it on cause there is no proper installer. If you want the SteamOS experience on other devices just use Bazzite.
I actually read about being able to set it as a wallpaper last night, but i didn’t know you could also use it as a bar.
If this does actually end up happening, i wonder if this would be a good alternative for single gpu passthrough. As it happens my passthrough setup broke again this week, because it refuses to unbind my card for some reason and just hangs forever. It’s the second time this happened and this time i can’t seem to fix it. Since i’m kinda tired of these issues i’m thinking of just avoiding this vm setup entirely and see how much i can get working in linux natively. I was mainly using it for my quest 2 but from what i’ve heard alvr has improved a lot over these last 2-3 years, so i’ll probably give that another try (couldn’t get it to work when i last tried it years ago).