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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[–] 42 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new 'I use arch btw'.

(No offense, but reading the 'I use arch btw' and then your response right after made me realize this)

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new 'I use arch btw'.

    "I use Nix btw"

    Rolls off the tongue in the same way. And, honestly, "I use Arch btw" just isn't the same hipster know-it-all contrarian meme that it used to be. It has a graphical installer now, and a popular retail device (the Steam Deck) comes with a user-friendly derivative of it installed out of the box.

    Meanwhile, NixOS has a huge learning curve that's off-putting to most non-technical users and even Linux hobbiests. I mean, really—having to configure everything through a functional programming language masquerading as a configuration file format? That's just the kind of thing that would attract masochists and pedants!

    I use Nix btw.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I just left nixos after about two years, and now on cachyos (arch). nixos is pretty cool in a lot of ways, but trying to stay on the bleeding edge of packages and kernels means living in nixos-unstable land, where broken builds are common. and I just got tired of it all.

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