Haha nice, tnx for the posts:)

Hey btw I noticed you recently started making many posts here, tnx for adding activity with useful material to this place:)

Oh I didnt see the downvotes😅

Hm, to explain my reasoning:

• I saw them talking about stuff that seemed complex to me and seem to have some experience with servers (already had a server), so I’d say they know way more about me and I’m going to set up a nixos server in like a month (been using them on my laptop for ~9months, but not in any fancy way). If I can, they I guess they probably can too.

• I thought about throwing an idea to consider. I’m too in the process of learning so I cant give a good plan yet:/

I see that in the end they ask for a nuanced answer, rip, I failed to do that

Maybe you could try nixos?

I was just watching this yesterday!

Καλησπερεςς

Ohhh, I was talking about android apps😆

Hmm, I havent checked much how big computer applications are on average

Do you mean by that that many apps are just website wrappers? Or did I get it wrong?

Indeed many apps tend to be that, at least many of my apps are open source at least and they tend not to have trackers and other bloat😅

Even 10years ago, I considered having an app over around 40mb to be huge, but now 60mb is kind of the norm

Since you ask for resources, check the bookmarks section of my personal guide for configuring nixos

https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/LinuxPlan/src/branch/main/LinuxPlan.md#nixos-bookmarks

Welcome aboard:)

same options to supertuxkart andvkcube test don’t work on these apps?

Yeah, they didnt work for some reason. I’m not very sure if any program other than supertuxkart and the vkcube test can run on my discrete gpu🤷

With firefox maybe you need to change something in “about:config” and restart?

I didnt change anything in those settings, but since not even kate opened, about:config probably isn’t the issue😅

Well, my discrete gpu isnt that good anyways, so it’s not that big of a loss

Does your discrete gpu run any other apps? I figured out that my discrete gpu seems to only run SuperTuxKart (not even firefox-beta or Kate). It seems very incompatible or something

Heyo, thanks for answering!

May I ask, what is that for? Does it allow you to run apps with DRI_PRIME=1 from command line?

(So far, I think my gpu might only be able to run supertuxkart with thr discrete gpu using the DRI_PRIME=1 command prefix.)

Edit: I tried it and I still can’t launch kate, firefox-beta etc. with my gpu. Only supertuxkart somehow seems to be working (and the vkcube test). Thanks for trying to help!

Yo very unrelated, but thank you for mentioning that phrase “skeletons in their own closet”! I’ve been listening to a song for a few months which uses that metaphor and I couldn’t exactly figure out what it meant (it’s in Greek and didnt expect that phrase to exist in english too). (This is the song if you care, lol.)

Oh yes, I later realised that in your post you made nixos fetch from unstable. I’m using only the unstable nixpkgs branch😅

I see though, if it runs properly on your device it probably would on mine too.

About bottles, I just created a bottle, selected “custom” (not application or game category) and I picked the runner I wanted (sys-wine 10.0). You can also change it later from settings/runner:)

Funnily, I had issues with lutris, couldnt get it to run properly, but I think it may have been cuz I had forgotten to enable 32bit support. Lol, with lutris and bottles it seems like half the people can only use the former and half only the latter.

PS. I was running the wayland variant at 8.2 and it was working properly on my plasma/wayland desktop. Maybe it wouldnt without it back when they didnt properly support it.

Edit: I’m using bottles from the nix repo, not from flatpak. If you use it from flatpak it may not be able to see “sys-wine”

Edit2: Apparently, removing the bottles shortcut of the affected apps and changing first to wine-ge fixed the issue. Thought notepad++ was broken, I just deleted that bottle.

Yo, may I ask, do you know the difference between wineWowPackages.waylandFull and wineWowPackages.Full?

I have the former one (I’ve just thrown it inside the environment.systemPackages=with pkgs ; [ ] section of my configuration.nix file).

And I just noticed that (almost?) all of wine variants for nixos got bumped to 10.0. Up until few weeks ago many were stuck in 8.2 I think. Wow

Edit: I see that this bump might have broken something (or a bottles update did it)💀 It seems like I cant change the runners of the bottles and bottles that used system wine cant boot up, hmmm

Edit2: I probably have to delete and recreate the affected bottles, bruh

I tried simplex today and it’s very nice (I have signal for years and I tried to compare signal, briar, jami and simplex. Simplex turned out to be a very good solution. Though probably even fewer people use it compared to signal, so I might be alone for a while on that messenger.)

If you want some lots of resources in a somewhat organised matter, here are a lot of bookmarks I have kept while I was learning nixos (I tend to update this):

https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/LinuxPlan/src/branch/main/LinuxPlan.md#nixos-bookmarks

Interested in this as well, posting a comment here just to find the post more easily:)

Ummm, this give rape vibes😬

(Hence the downvote from my part)