NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^

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When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.

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The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.

About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.

wiki.nixos.org

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7 points

I use Gentoo btw

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I’ve been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.

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I think the point apart from declaring the whole system is that Nix saves changes to config files, this eliminates the concept of .pacnew / .pacsave.

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38 points

Was the original a joke about MMO learning curves with the top line being Path of Exile?

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I’m pretty sure I saw this with EVE Online a long time ago.

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50 points

Yeah

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12 points

I give up, what’s POTBS?

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Eve Online is the finest, most intricate MMO ever created, and I absolutely hate it.

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7 points

I work with spreadsheets all day, why would I want to do it in my free time?

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4 points

Path of exile is fine as long as you follow someone elses build

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You might be able to get through the story and a couple of maps pretty easily without a guide, later acts will be difficult if you specced really wrong, but if you want to run endgame content and league mechanics while on a hardcore solo self founded character then you better go get fucking gud, mate.

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3 points

Shame AO wasn’t there, probably not Eve level but also more enjoyable

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30 points

You didn’t even care to relabel the axes, I don’t trust you.

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Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.

But by the time you’ve learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you’ve plateued.

…I guessssss it could make sense? XD

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5 points

It was about dwarf fortress, i refuse to belive otherwise

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I vaguely remember it being about EvE Online, totally possible it was repurposed.

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1 point

what about rogue-likes on insane? people falling from the cliff sure looks like that to me

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18 points

The axis don’t make sense.

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The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress

The original comic was very accurate

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No, the black line is EVE Online. There could have been an edit replacing it with Dwarf Fortress, but the original is definitely about EVE Online.

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Oh dang you’re right, I definitely remember a DF version but yes

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I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it’s cheap to pick up…yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I’ll ever be ready for that, haha.

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As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.

Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.

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17 points

Windows is decidedly the green line, Debian the red.

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Was thinking same. I always think windows is the easiest to get used from beginning, but that could be cause windows was the first operating system i was dealing with. Playing with the amiga 3000 could be the start, but there i was only 5

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Windows XP wasn’t exactly intuitive to me and now only I know what my keybinds for Hyprland are so um maybe you’re right. Honestly switching to Ubuntu made things a lot easier for me than they were on windows because it was easier to change settings and similar just by using terminal commands rather than a weird gui or not at all.

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Maybe it is the weird gui…as a kid i didnt question it and just get used to it so now it feels “natural”

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100% true

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