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  • Those are all good reasons. XFCE aims to support Wayland with the next release, so if they choose to use an established compositor it shouldn’t be too buggy.

    With XFCE porting their apps over the setup shouldn’t change much, unless you’re using Xorg specific tools.

    Over the last few years most features I’d expect from a windowing system were added to Wayland, so I expect the drama to cool down. (I don’t even know what’s still missing (except accessibility), with VRR, tearing, DRM leasing (VR), and global hotkeys being done. It’s just apps like Discord that have to cave in under the pressure to fix their apps.)

    Once everything works, there’s no point talking about it.

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  • I’m using Proxmox with a NixOS LXC for Jellyfin/*arr. The media is stored on a single btrfs HDD, because high uptime (RAID) isn’t necessary for me and it’s media I can simply redownload.

    I’m looking into switching to NixOS on bare metal, because I don’t need the UI of proxmox and most other features.

    Symphonium is great for music, even though it’s closed source and paid. I’m mostly using Spotify though.

    Findroid is an awesome native Android app for watching tv/movies, altough it doesn’t support transcoding.



  • I’d say flatpak isn’t the future because it’s already here and seems to be universally accepted as the cross-distro package manager.

    I do like how the Nix package manager handles dependencies, but it’s not suitable for app developers packaging their own apps because of its complexity.

    If a better flatpak comes around I’d use it too, but at least for graphical apps I don’t know what it’d have to do to be better. In my opinion, flatpak is a prime example of good enough, but not perfect and I’d be surprised if there was a different tool with the same momentum in 15 years (except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).











  • It seems the Determinate Nix installer supports Fedora Atomic and SELinux.

    On topic:

    I really like Nix and home-manager. I’ve mostly switched to NixOS because it’s more convenient for window manager setups than building ublue images imo.

    Having to mess with containers for different dev environments and keeping the up to date is imo more annoying than creating a shell.nix

    Also being able manage my dorfiles with home-manager and installing software declaratively helps in keeping the system free of clutter.