This was the response from chatgpt when I coppied OP’s exact post. It wasn’t too far off:
Yes, there’s a way to automate this process using a script. You can use a combination of the find command and sed to search and replace the version number in all your files. Here’s a sample command you can use:
<span style="color:#323232;">find /path/to/assets -type f -name </span><span style="color:#183691;">"*.asset"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -exec sed -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">'s/verified version 10/verified version 11/g' </span><span style="color:#323232;">{} +
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Replace /path/to/assets with the actual path to your asset folders. This command will recursively search for .asset files and replace “verified version 10” with “verified version 11”. Make sure to have a backup of your files before running this command, just in case.
Also, consider testing this on a smaller set of files first to ensure it works as expected before applying it to all 400+ files.
I’ve noticed this exact same behaviour on my partners laptop and when comparing each and every single setting of her browser with mine, to find no difference.
The only thing “breaking” (as in major bugs but still booting fine) for me are the NVidia drivers, and that’s to be expected considering I’m using testing repos and wayland. I only always check unread news with yay before upgrading anything automatically using an alias.
I feel like this is a bad recommendation for someone coming from Windows, it’s quite an opinionated distro.
Considering windows is the complete opposite of trade free I doubt a windows user would be willing to compromise convenience for a philosophy that they probably don’t share.
@jdaxe It is not about trade-free. Windows is for people who barely care what is OS, and how to maintain it. Windows users want install and play. If windows user( gamer) change to linux for gaming, it something wrong with Linux marketing.
I have one old laptop where I decided to test some more obscure Gentoo setups. I chose musl as libc and took llvm toolchain to compile stuff. (All experimental)
It’s honestly cool stuff, but I don’t think a lot of people actually actively want that.
I tried something similar with Exherbo once but couldn’t get it to boot after installation, I don’t remember the specifics but I tried using libressl instead of openssl.
Interesting, looked at the Gentoo docs to understand USE flags. Nix has similar capabilities, where some packages expose configuration options that apply to the build, but it’s not a overtly named feature consistently applies across all packages. It seems that something like USE flags could be implemented rather easily by Nix but was either deemed not necessary or was an oversight. You can still change the build for any package but it might involve introspecting the package definition to figure out what to change so not meant as a first class mechanism like USE flags.
USE flags have some inherent “issues” or rather downsides that make them non-options for some distributions.
First, they create a much larger number of package variants, simplified 2^(number of USE flags applicable to package). This is fine if you don’t want to supply binaries to your users. Second, the gain they bring to the average workstation is rather insignificant today. Users usually want all functionality available and not save 30 kb of RAM and then suddenly have to rebuild world because they find out they’re missing a USE flag that they suddenly need. Also, providing any kind of support for a system where the user doesn’t run the binaries you provided and maybe even changed dependencies (e.g. libressl instead of openssl) is probably impossible.
It’s very cool stuff if you want to build a system very specific to your needs and hardware, and I do believe that NixOS could have profited in some parts from it, but I don’t have specific ideas.
Yeah that thread i linked does talk about combinatorial explosion that would result in either a unmaintainable cache size or basically no caching at all of binaries. Your point about premature optimization is good. It makes me think that the seeming ignorance of USE flags by Nix was intentional.
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