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[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 43 points 1 month ago
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[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago
[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

I thought that was the ONLY distro...?!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

It has been created to “attract young users to Linux”.

Might want to update their "kids these days love this" reference list a bit 😄

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NixOS: How do I install OBS?

edit /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

locate environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [

and add

linuxPackages.v4l2loopback
(wrapOBS {
  plugins = with pkgs.obs-studio-plugins; [
    obs-backgroundremoval
    obs-shaderfilter
    obs-vintage-filter
    
  ];
})

Then you need to install the kernel driver

you can find the instructions here:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/OBS_Studio

make sure you follow the part about boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [ v4l2loopback ];

if you want to use the virtual cam driver.

You may find out that you want to install this in home-manager or flakes instead, but those are novels themselves.

edit: ohh yeah almost forgot run

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

after you edit the configs to install

NixOS: How do I update the version of OBS after it's installed?

sudo nix-channel --update

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

If it breaks, the errors are mostly unhelpful, you need to poke around and make educated guesses.

If it bricks you can go back to the previous version in grub by selecting the second to the top entry

make sure you garbage collect every now and then or the app store gets huge.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years and I recently noped out of NixOS. It's a great concept, but I'm old and I don't want to spend the rest of my days configuring stuff just to get to where I would be in 30 minutes on a less rigorously designed distro.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That is, until your distro releases an update and you're like "what do you mean the update failed? So does that mean the update script rolled the changes back?" and then you find out your entire system is in a half updated state and you need to clean install

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Ever heard of btrfs snapshots and immutable?

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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

To be fair, with btrfs and whatever snapshot tool your distro has, you can make any distro just about impossible to fuck up.

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[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I just keep my home folder backed up safely. The software installed doesn’t really matter to me since I can redownload things pretty quickly

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[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Came here to say NixOS too. The idea behind it is neat but the implementation is the most obtuse Rube Goldberg machine I can imagine.

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 32 points 1 month ago

To scare them? Windows.

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It's the absolute best way to make someone become a Linux user for life.:-)

[-] Labna@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gentoo obviously :
To install, easy just get this iso, with no GUI, then whip your hard drive, create partition, copy the Linux core, config your core based on the hardware technical details of every components you have and will use, compile it, add extra core drivers, compile them, add all the software you'll use to get a GUI (Desktop environment), compile them,. Now you can finally restart without usb stick! Add all the software, configure and compile them. And for every update of every software you may check the details to be sure it doesn't break your config.
Easy no? It just took you a month to get all the steps right!

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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Neither existed when I installed Linux the first time.

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[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Hannah Montana Linux or Biebian

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[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Arch is fine... It has good documentation.

NixOS or Gentoo is probably my pick.

[-] Lucien@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Or Linux from scratch

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[-] xylazineDream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

The nixOS slander in these comments would be valid if nixOS were simply a distro and not a cult…

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

that's absurd. cults kill people, and we only ruin marriages.

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[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ya there's Arch. There's NixOS. There's still Slackware.
But have you heard of 9front?
9front is useless. You won't be gaming or working with it.
Mostly, you'd learn how operating systems are constructed.

Or DoomOS or DoomLinux. It's a basic linux system where DOOM is the shell.
I forked this and tried to get it running. Learned some interesting things. Still doesn't work for me. :]
https://github.com/fl64/DoomLinux

[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

9front is not useless!

you can run catclock.

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[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Using DoomLinux to mess with someone would be hilarious. Plug the USB into the back of their computer then alter the boot order so it prioritises USB. Each time they start their computer it boots into DOOM.

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[-] Jinna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

Slackware still exists, if they survive they'll be nigh immortal.

[-] wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 5 points 1 month ago

slackware

Mind you, still had to write all of your own /etc/init.d scripts, and every other config file under the sun, but you could get almost any machine up and running before all them fancy new modular kernel drivers came into existence.

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[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

Make them use an old, abandoned distro.

Like Brazil's own Knoppix fork Kurumin.

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[-] Gilgamesh@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Since people fear parentheses, GNU Guix.

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[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And suggest they go over it and optimize it before building.

[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Is that a really young Brodie Robertson on the right??

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[-] SVcross@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Obviously Hannah Montana Linux.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 8 points 1 month ago
[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Who TF is scared by Mint?

Did a clean upgrade/install of Mint about 10 hours ago. I'm back to business as usual. Minor tweaks, no tinkering.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I installed mint, and my Linux knowledge (little to none) plateaued because it never breaks. I never have to fix anything. I'm the iPad kid of Linux.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

How dare it work!

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Don't run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don't use a desktop, get a mainframe.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Great, now I've got the phonk walk in my head

[-] dwt@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Nixos, Legacy of the greybeard.

[-] monogram@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Mint is goat

Remember to make a backup pipeline with Timeshift and you’ll be fine

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
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