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I used Manjaro for a while, because they had an i3 community edition and, well, I wanted to give i3 a go. I think it was DistroTube that convinced me to try it
by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I used Manjaro for a while, because they had an i3 community edition and, well, I wanted to give i3 a go. I think it was DistroTube that convinced me to try it and, honestly, I loved it.
It’s a slippery slope, though. Manjaro is just a gateway drug to Arch, and Arch is just a psychiatric test to see how many things perpetually break on you before you snap and move onto the paradise of NixOS.
Yep. I went there. Of course I was going there. My username checks out.
- zdragnar 3y agoThis is also my story, though I added a two year sprint of using swaywm inbetween manjaro i3 and (in the next week) being 100% all-in on nixos at home.
- gausswho 3y agoYou two are a step ahead of me. Been really enjoying Manjaro Sway edition the last couple years on a Framework laptop. I am in line for the AMD Frameworks and considering whether its arrival is the ideal moment to dive into NixOS. What do you think, am I too ambitious going that route with unvetted hardware?
- zdragnar 3y agoNixos has a live iso, so you should be able to boot into it and see if the basics work. https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso Give it a shot!
- whimsicalism 3y agohow was i3?
- i-use-nixos-btw 3y agoIt changed the way I use computers. Absolutely love it. Though I moved to Hyprland a few months ago and it's very similar, but for Wayland (and a slightly nicer look, but not without its own quirks). Funnily enough, I moved to Hyprland when one of the Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts (Linux Unplugged possibly?) talked about it. So from this thread alone you can tell that I'm quite easily influenced!