But I think OP is more focused on those small things that only become evident after a couple weeks or even a month, after you’ve already invested a bunch of time and energy getting everything running the way you need it
If it's a new book and one that I think other people may be interested in borrowing, I'll get the hardcover for the extra protection.
However, there's a used paperback store down the street from me that has a whole bunch of heavily used paperbacks for like $1 each, and those have definitely been dominating my collection lately. Sometimes I'll just pick up a dozen of them. That little store is one of those treasure troves of unexpected things, even though when you find one of those treasures, you might need to flip the pages carefully to prevent it from falling apart.
In my experience, online websites can help find a distro with minimal support, but they’re quickly out of date. Best way I’ve found is to flash a live USB, boot, and check if all hardware is recognised.
Stuff like Linux-hardware and Arch Wiki’s hardware support pages are a nice place to start, but if the last update was a while back you may find your hardware to be supported better than online documentation may suggest.
There is a website to check which hardware is supported (on which distro). You can look up your laptop there, but beware that it is crowdsourced, so there might have been tinkering involved before submitting the results or the results may be outdated.
Click on “probe your computer” then check the results to see what your current setup supports.
That is pretty sweet. I start up my docker service, run the docker command and ctrl-click the link it pops up in Konsole, and voila! I see exactly what I noticed in my system, mainly that the RGB bullshit doesn’t work which hurts my feelings not at all.
This is also super useful for people deciding what to buy, when the vendor would obviously not be keen to let you plug a USB into their device and boot into the scary Linux
I’ll check for sales first, and if there is one upcoming within like a week or two I might wait if I can, but outside of that I just pay whatever the price is at the time that I need whatever it is I am buying.
I don’t really buy anything solely because its on sale though. The sales are an extra bonus, not a necessity most of the time. Unless its something I can wait forever on.
Make confused/disappointed face, don’t laugh. “Uh… Okay, kind of mean.” Then move on.
Most people behave to impress/entertain their friend group. Not sure if they’re your friend or not, but that’s been successful for me. It’s not to attack them, but just to show them that that behavior isn’t going to help your opinion of them.
If they don’t care, then that’s a choice for you to make about what you’ll tolerate.
When I was younger, paperback because they were cheap. These days I prefer hard back because the font is easier on my eyes.
That I said, like everyone else it seems, I do much more reading on my Kobo. It has the font benefits if I need it, but huge space savings. I still have a large collection of books but every time I move I tend to move more and move of them into ebooks.
City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically “System Design” work already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as an OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez scenario, and get gamers to design boards for you.
Replaces the Archwiki with basically 0 docs, a large chunk of your Linux knowledge no longer applies, you can’t compile from source (even if you mostly don’t need to), everything is different, the nix language kinda sucks until you “get” it, etc.
But it has a lot of advantages too if you have the time and desire to learn it.
I recently installed Nix alongside with Arch. I feel the same. After years of using Arch I spent two days to get everything configured the same as in my Arch, and I haven’t finished it yet.
Arch wiki is still relevant, I still use it as a reference on my NixOS box.
a large chunk of your Linux knowledge no longer applies
Your pacman and pacur (or whatever the name of the air helper soup de jour is this week) will no longer apply. Most of my linux knowledge was still applicable. You have all the same programs that run in the same way as they do on arch.
you can’t compile from source
Sure you can. Want to compile everything from source? Just turn off using the cache. NixOS is a source based distro.
everything is different
Also no. I use the same programs I can get on most other distros.
the nix language kinda sucks until you “get” it, etc.
If you have ever used another functional language its fine.
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