I feel like CachyOS should be further to Niche than Arch

Yes. I tried it for 6 months. Terrible. Takes way too long to compile

For me, I always keep coming back to Arch tbh

Sometimes I get fed up with managing a whole system and once in a blue moon bricking my system on an update, but the alternatives are always worse, and with btrfs now, I don’t have to worry about the latter problem.

Nix was the closest to pulling me away. A centralized config? Beautiful. Static package store without dependency conflicts? Beautiful. Immutable applications? The WORST idea we’ve ever had as a community. For instance, imo, VS Code extensions are fundamentally incompatible with Nix. I spent weeks trying to get it to work doing multiple different things to try and hope it would work. It can’t. VS Code just has to be mutable.

Anyway so I’m back to arch and have been for over a year since I tried Nix (and before that Fedora which has its own issues). Before that I had been on Arch for 4 years.

I think I’ll stay now. It’s really the best option out there. In my mind, Arch is Linux, i.e. it’s how an OS should be built for the Linux kernel and the FOSS ecosystem, and it won’t ever be beat

Blue

Ah yes bc it says:

You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted under this License.

That was the context of the comment you replied to. Not sure why you’re talking about something else

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Yes you did. That’s I replied to. Your comment that said “License viloation”

I did it once

Used it for a month

Compilation never got faster

Miserable experience updating or installing new software

Never trying it again

Just use minimal binary distros like Arch

Or if you really want the control of Gentoo use Nix; it’s just a better system for that since almost everything you need is prebuilt as well

Right. That’s the idea. Since Cali has a dumb law, it would be illegal to download Ubuntu in California. Californians follow their law, Ubuntu has to change nothing.

But how is that a license violation on Canonical’s part?

Why? As long as they release the source, it should still be good. Californians will just have to build everything themselves and risk breaking the law

LEARN

My 16G RTX-3080 Mobile works well with Niri

I’ve found it varies from compositor to compositor:

• Plasma? Mid on Nvidia
  • Constantly I have issues and I can’t even solve them myself
  • I have plasma working on Ubuntu Studio on a laptop I use for music making which has some Nvidia card, and that works fine, but not on my main Arch install
• GNOME? Works okay until you want to do something with portals like screen recording
  • Even if I use a different portal, GNOME overrides it.
• Hyprland? Works amazing EXCEPT for random tiny issues
  • Also I had to do a lot of tweaking
  • Every now and then some program will not start or something
  • But generally pretty good
• Sway? Garbo support
  • Nvidia may not even boot. Lots of tweaking. Lots of issues
• Cosmic? For wayland - solid
  • For everything else… it needs a little work still
  • I also tried Cosmic Shell + Niri, and it just kinda didn’t work in some ways like theming, but Wayland worked great.
  • Also performance with multi-displays is kinda poor, or at least it was when I tried it.
• But Niri? Perfect
  • Absolutely FLAWLESS Wayland. EVERYTHING works
  • And now that I have DMS there’s so much done for me. It’s really a great system

Since I love the scrolling aspect of Niri as well, it works out well that it has the best Wayland support. 10/10 project. I love it

When I was on X11 still I was primarily an i3 user, and the transition to Hyprland and Niri has been generally positive

But yeah, I’ve worked with Nvidia on Linux for several years now on multiple machines. I’m finally throwing in the towel whenever I buy a new PC. AMD all the way. It’s just better on Linux, even on X11