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   H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 06:47:56 JST H. Faust
   Another minor update on the Guix system, Thunar works and I found out that Librewolf is also packaged for the distribution but I'll stick with IceCat
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     soberano (installgentoo@princess.wedding)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:00:41 JST soberano

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     @hfaust nice
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     H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:09:16 JST H. Faust

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan I'm using i3, it's one of the default options in the installer, and added some packages. In my main PC I use openSUSE with KDE and although is the best KDE experience I've had, I wanted to try something new and GUIX is great.
     
     BTW, at least so far all my hadware works without proprietary firmare so YMMV and you would probably need to install and configure the nonguix channel.
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:09:18 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     @hfaust What window manager are you using? I've been thinking of trying out Guix again on a powerful desktop machine where hopefully the inherent slowness of nix-style package management won't be too big of an annoyance but I'm worried I'll have too many GUI-related things not working properly.
     
     Nowadays I prefer just having a full-blown KDE or GNOME desktop where things Just Work, because I'm tired of tweaking and tinkering, even if I still end up doing a ton of stuff in Emacs or the terminal...
     
     Been using KDE for the first time in my life these last months, and I'm loving it, a lot more than GNOME.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:09:51 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan @hfaust
     > Been using KDE for the first time in my life these last months, and I'm loving it, a lot more than GNOME.
     
     I've been trying KDE every other week and I have a lot of issues :(
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     H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:15:00 JST H. Faust

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     • Kerosene ~suya~ CEO of DarkFedi
     @kerosene @taylan There are still bugs with Plasma Desktop, they don't even featured it on the docs or latest installer but you can run it.
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     Kerosene ~suya~ CEO of DarkFedi (kerosene@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:15:01 JST Kerosene ~suya~ CEO of DarkFedi

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan @hfaust Last I used it, apparently KDE was not yet supported because of the way it messes with the file system which does not play well with how Guix organizes things. There was a version of Gnome which was like one or two years behind the latest version, but it worked. I didn't try the other DEs because I was too busy Emacs-maxxing and using it as my everything (retarded move).
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:21:14 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     • Nice Mitch Conner

     @mitchconner Interesting. I never run Arch or Arch derivatives. But, they have the reputation of being unstable or breaking often. I've had openSUSE Tumbleweed (which I would otherwise be using if it wasn't Debian) break on me during updates when bad firmware packages got shipped, but Tumbleweed uses BTRFA + Snapped for rollbacks so it wasn't a big deal at all. Debian uses Ext4 with no snapshot support……but, I have never has Debian break or bork on me. So, I don't know. I find the Debian experience extremely comfortable and stable and good. I run Debian on my personal machines and server. @taylan @hfaust

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     Nice Mitch Conner (mitchconner@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:21:15 JST Nice Mitch Conner

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
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     It's weird how wildly different " The one that just works" Can be from person to person. Every time I try to use Debian lately, it's a broken adventure like you're describing, but Arch has been 100% stable for me. I'm running EndeavorOS on my desktop and my laptop and nothing is broken. It just updates and it works. You talk to other people and they have the actual opposite experience. It doesn't really make much sense. It should be an objective thing, but it doesn't seem to be.
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:21:16 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

     @taylan
     > I prefer just having a full-blown KDE or GNOME desktop where things Just Work, because I'm tired of tweaking and tinkering

     Preach! It's also one of the reasons I run Debian stable these days. I want to use my computer to get work done. I'm tired of using my computer like some surrogate activity problem to constantly be trying to fix/solve. I just want things to work and not break. @hfaust

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:21:57 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Nice Mitch Conner
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     @adiz @taylan @mitchconner @hfaust since I'm on NixOS, if an update is bad I can just roll back a generation, but at the same time, if a generation can't be built, there's nothing new, so the system remains working
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     Nice Mitch Conner (mitchconner@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:24:01 JST Nice Mitch Conner

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     • Johnny Peligro
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     >since I'm on NixOS
     Bro, I am not even exaggerating. It was physically difficult for me to read the rest of this post, as soon as I read NixOS, my eyes were just not willing to go back to my screen. I was like really physically struggling against my eyes.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:24:01 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     • Nice Mitch Conner
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     @mitchconner @taylan @adiz @hfaust uh... huh?
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:28:10 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     • Nice Mitch Conner
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     @mitchconner @taylan @adiz @hfaust my journey took some time but I'm comfy now, but I'm 63 iq so maybe that has to do with it
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     Nice Mitch Conner (mitchconner@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:28:11 JST Nice Mitch Conner

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     • Johnny Peligro
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     I've tried to learn how to use NixOS before and I just find it incomprehensible, as if it was made by aliens. I guess it's the first technology that I'm officially losing touch with as an aging person.
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     H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 10:35:08 JST H. Faust

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     • soberano
     @installgentoo
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