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by flatbub 4y ago
This sounds like the process of multiple stakeholders going through the tough work of forming consensus. I'm glad you are a part of the community, championing for ease of installation across all distros. Which other manufacturers provi
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by flatbub 4y ago
Nice. I've migrated to flakes and much prefer it. Flakes provides abstractions at a per-repo level. Guix offers abstractions all the way down: an OS contains a bootloader, which is also its own type. > The default NixOS machine does
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Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”(pine64.org)
116 points by flatbub 4y ago|104 comments
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by flatbub 4y ago
AFAICT, NixOS has no equivalent to the type https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/operating_002dsyste... , which makes it clear what an OS contains, and allows you to query the OS. Instead, NixOS has many
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by flatbub 4y ago
What makes the SDM845 more power efficient than the SoC in PPP (RK3399s?)?
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by flatbub 4y ago
I've seen this process of replacing an "off-the-shelf binary" with a "custom binary that uses an off-the-shelf library". It allows you to better fit your particular functional and operational needs.
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by flatbub 4y ago
No, since I can cycle while going other activities (commute, shopping), and the consequent fitness adds value to other parts of life.
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by flatbub 4y ago
Nice! Bravo for your contributions! After using and contributing NixOS for 3 years, I appreciated that I understood far more how Guix worked after just one 1-2 weeks of using it. Guix introduces abstractions, such as operating-system that h
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by flatbub 4y ago
That's not a nice way to treat contributors. Bugs are the community's responsibility. Anyone who works on them (reporting, fixing, testing) should be commended. I doubt we'd have anywhere near what we have without Martijn and
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by flatbub 4y ago
I'm a bit concerned that Manjaro is getting a bit of hate recently, and that this might impact the morale of contributors. I'm glad Linux has a diversity of distributions, and I trust that users are selecting distributions that pr