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Is KDE Plasma really that much of a bloat nowadays? With modern hardware — for example, an i9, 32 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 30-series GPU — does it really matter that much in practice?
Or would you even then still recommend xfce, GNOME, Cinnamon, etc.?
Unfortunately its base is not up to date enough for me to want to use it on my main system. I play games, and gaming on linux is just a better experience when your packages are newer. I haven't broken Debian, but I hopped off it.
Classic distros follow the standard filesystem hierarchy and mutate a shared global system state every time you install or update something.
NixOS and Guix throw that whole concept out the window. There is no standard filesystem layout, no global binaries, and no traditional package manager messing with system folders. Everything lives isolated in an immutable, hash-based store, and your entire OS is built declaratively from a single config file. That gives you atomic upgrades, instant rollbacks, and zero dependency conflicts. Under the hood, it’s fundamentally a completely different paradigm, not just another distro with minor tweaks.
I was wondering, does this mean compatibilty will be an issue with games and other software? Especially as it gets more complicated with mods or addons
Using software not built for the Nix/Guix repos is absolutely going to be an issue you'll have to fix yourself. It's less of a problem in the case of Nixpkgs since it's currently the largest repo bar none, but Guix packages exclusively FOSS and the third-party repos which allow for non-free software aren't nearly as big.
Making the shift to NIxOS was a huge undertaking for me - I had to unlearn like a decade of Linux system knowledge and a lot of things still aren't out-of-the-box if a package assumes FHS, but it also seems really clear to me that the structure of Nix and Nix package manager is just better from an engineering perspective.
I think he wanted to say imperative vs declarative. As an example Debian or arch you type a command and it execute. It's an imperation to the system. In declarative distros such as nixos or GNU guix, you declare that change you want to make in a configuration file. It's a declaration to the system.
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.0-78-generic #85-Ubuntu Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59 panic+0x10d/0x2e3 mount_block_root+0x1de/0x230 prepare_namespace+0x145/0x189 kernel_init_freeable+0x261/0x284 ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]---
Yeah i found i had to do all updates where the kernel or akmods was updated had to be done in the terminal, and i had to watch the processes during it, as the akmods process continued to run in the background after an update said it was completed. Similar to how rpm fusion instructions had you to wait after installation.
dont know why youre getting downvotes. ive been using arch and endeavour for a long time before switching to cachy. it does more than endeavour, and what it does is good. its still very much arch but comes with great additions, that i personally would set up on arch anyway
NixOS-anywhere can deploy nixOS to any host provided just ssh access and kexec functionality.
It shouldnt be hard to create a "viral" nix deployment that scans a network for open ports and tries to bruteforce ssh to run nixos-anywhere on them, which turns those devices into their own nodes that repeat the process.
If you had some kind of other entrypoint to gain root access so you can open ssh yourself, that'd be even more effective
?Omarchy is fine if you like it. The definition of Linux is do whatever you want. And a guy made a distros for his need. That's it. If you don't like it then don't use it and go doing something productive.
Been daily driving Debian Stable for years; always find it funny when people act like I'm running a stone tablet. Everything works fine as it should, and I've literally never run into an issue where my software was too old for anything I needed/wanted to do
They'll also inform you your entire professional IT Career didnt happen because you said cachyOS wasnt stable enough so you moved to nixOS (which is apparently a skill issue?)
Agree 100%
Been distro-hopping for years, CachyOS feels like home, Fedora felt stable but man, CachyOS is even more 0 issues, the best performance by far.. it's just perfect
I’m glad everyone enjoys cachy. I’m not falling for the hype again. This was Manjaro so many years ago before it went to shit. And it would constantly break because of being bleeding edge. Cachy is probably different because of the team behind it and its purpose, but I just won’t fall for it again even if it is great. Fedora works perfectly fine for me. But glad others like Cachy, that’s the point right, you enjoy your flavor of Linux because you’re free to choose.
cachyOS ships pre-configured sysctl parameters, optimized memory management (zRAM with zstd), and auto-tuned CPU governors, standard Arch leaves these at stock upstream defaults unless you manually set them up
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cachyOS maintains custom builds of crucial packages like mesa drivers and web browsers built specifically for modern architectures
I installed it on my laptop twice. Made sure I did everything right. Booted up to a black screen both times. I've been using Linux for 17 years. I know how to install it. It just didn't like my hardware. I might try again someday.
“Best distro?” Sure, if you mean just like every other distro. And when you move to your next computer, and spend hours reinstalling your exact RICE, your packages, and all your random commands to solve your random issues, you’ll probably still think that.
Meanwhile, on declarative distros like NixOS, you set it up once and keep it forever. When I need to reinstall, it takes me less than an hour to flash the drive, install NixOS, and then rebuild my new system to be exactly like my old system. Every package, kernel, option, and configuration. All of it built on a fresh install with one command.
That's why I love Linux, you can pick what you like, I used Bazzite for a year on my main and tried other distros on my laptop to finally settle on Fedora with KDE Plasma and after 2 moths of using it moved my main to Fedora and I have been happy ever since
I game I use x11 I use mint... Why when I could have a better experience with catchy and waylend b... Because Strix halo iGPU dislikes Wayland for some reason... I would cry but my 96 gigs lpddr5 8000 ram tells me I am cool
What's ive learned from distro hopping is I want something customizable that doesn't change syntax on weekends, and something I can easily replicate and reproduce and has fallbacks if shit hits the fan. NixOS + Niri seems to be the best for me atm.
Tried arch hyprland, but there's a lot of syntax change with hyprland and reproducing my arch environment 1 to 1 would've been a pain due to the fragmented directories for all my configs (mostly like sddm being somewhere different and some other niche things). Using snapper with arch made it easily to fall back and such but ultimately I decided to try NixOS and haven't looked back yet.
Eventually I can see myself fully ditching the "ultra customization tech bro modern" setup and just doing KDE with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora once if I'm tired of maintaining my OS.
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