Somehow this is what's going to convince me to distro hop. (media.piefed.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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I'm really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I've been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I'm feeling excited about. I don't know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn't really in the running... I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Get spiraled idiot

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

Thank God you censored your local IP, don't want hackers to find out it's 192.168.1.45

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

A-BAPBAPBAPBA. Not so loud!

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 2 weeks ago

That, my good friend, is an amazing onomatopoeia

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The spiral is calling me

[-] oeuf@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

sudo chown debian:debian "by the way"

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

sudo chown debian:debian “by the way”

I love the bait because I run everything with man first to see what the fuck they're trying to tell me to do.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fulltime Linux user since 2001 or so. Tried so many distros....

I have never once used neofetch. I never really understood why anyone does, but maybe I am missing out....

But if you find a distro you like that makes your neofetch look cool, post it here, I will give you a view so you aren't the only one seeing it!

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gives me a quick summary to show off to other nerds.

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can just use a distrobox ...

The package manager isn't that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.

Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought I'd read that somewhere. I haven't had an issue with neofetch yet, but I suppose I should switch.

[-] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, Neo is dead and no longer developed or supported.

Fast is fantastic and actively developed.

https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:

fastfetch -c neofetch

EDIT:

Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:

fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Is nix already "normie" compatible? It has to become much easier.

I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

Same for flatpak, it's on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

[-] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don't have immich.

On the other hand, if by "normie" you mean "running a browser and some flatpaks", nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

That's probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. "Normies" ad in "non-techies" won't easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The one exception here: it's great to have it installed on your parents' PC when you're the one doing the update once in a while when you are around. Rock solid in between, no nagging, and if something did break, easy to roll back.

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why do people use neofetch anyway?

[-] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 weeks ago

pretty

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, but I don't understand the purpose.
Do people frequently forget their OS/specs?

Or is it just a thing people use to brag about their specs in screenshots?

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's just a thing people like to look at. Some people like the optics of technical specs, and neofetch makes it look pretty.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or is it just a thing people use to brag about their specs in screenshots?

Yes.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Theres a few things that its just nice to check. I use it all the time to see what version of KDE plasma/mesa/kernel I'm running and how full all my drives are.

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Technically they should be using fastfetch now.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Garuda dr46nized has a pretty fetch by default on its console.

[-] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

fastfetch supports custom logos!

[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

neofetch too tho

[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch....etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

[-] blibla@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

hyfetch is the same but with pride flags

[-] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.

[-] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

How do you even compete with a snowflake made of lambdas? NixOS could be your final distro.

[-] monogram@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Until you find out that the configuration file syntax is like swift and Haskell had a baby.

[-] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is an example how to define plymouth with your own logo derivation. Isn't this the most beautiful?

  boot = {
    plymouth = {
      enable = true;
      theme = "breeze";
      logo = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
        name = "out.png";
        dontUnpack = true;
        src = pkgs.fetchurl {
          url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
          sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
        };
        nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [imagemagick];
        buildPhase = ''
          magick -background none -size 200x200 $src nix-snowflake-rainbow.png
        '';
        installPhase = ''
          install -Dm0644 nix-snowflake-rainbow.png $out
        '';
      };
    };

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or you could just have a scheme configuration where lambas make sense

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I recommend HyFetch because pride

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro's logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

The coolest I've seen? Artix of course!

(There's also Kali, but it's disqualified because A: not a daily driver distro, and B: dragons are automatically the coolest thing ever)

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear"

(don't know why it's green)

[-] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you...

i have no idea actually, why arch?

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you're familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I've only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago

Container images and NixOS is actually a match made in heaven, so yes it's NixOS all the way, except I spend 10 times reading scattered documentation and tutorials rather than getting a working configuration... Fedora ain't so bad

[-] MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Easily the biggest downside rn. The scattered/lack of documentation has been the biggest hurdle for me getting into NixOS, especially after being spoiled with the arch wiki.

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago

If I switch from discover to some other manager like bazaar, is it still going to default to my distro's flatpaks? Or will I have to manually choose?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a "distro's Flatpaks"? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling...

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It's tempting me but I don't have any time for that.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Neither did I. Now I just don't have time for sleep.

[-] theolodis@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

You could also start by getting used to the nix package manager on whatever linux you're currently: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-install-nix-package-manager/

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes! I use nix-shell extendively in my scripts. It supercedes nvm, npx, pipx, etc for me.

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