I am an avid #foss and #linux enthuist. Like a large amount of people in the foss community, I have #autism and #adhd.

I tend to post about a little bit of everything.

I run #NixOS on my Laptop and #opensuse #leap on my #server PC which is running the instance that I’m on.

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  • @histic @ShittyRedditWasBetter

    At the university I am going to they require a book for every course, and a plan on how they’re going to use it.

    What’s great is that I’ve all my professors right back. All of my professors include a book that is fairly old and include some verbage in the syllabus about how they “reserve the right to assign reading assignments” i.e. book quizzes, but they actually never have assigned them previously and don’t even have material made up.

    I’m guessing the reason for this policy is because the university has an opt-out (you have to re-opt out every semester, and you have to check some professors lock their own material) $150 paywall to get online access to your books. The only way I can see this as worth it is if your taking like 6 classes and all of them use books written in the last 5 years or so…








  • zbecker@mastodon.zbecker.cctolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI use Debian BTW
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    @kmkz_ninja @OrnateLuna

    I know people who use linux mint (or other distros that aim at user friendliness) who literally never have to touch the command line. This claim that you need to use the command line was true 5 years ago, but today it is largely false.

    I am in a Linux User Group and I am literally the only person who uses a tiling window manager (I use hyprland) instead of DEs like kde, gnome, cinnamon, etc.




  • @lambda @BeigeAgenda

    Imo a better alternative to flatpak is the nix package manager, but as I said to the other guy this’ll most likely end up a VHS/betamax situation.

    Both things are trying to solve dependency hell in different ways. Flatpak just builds and runs everything in a container, where as nix sets up virtual environments and builds things in isolation with per package dependency trees in an effort to make builds entirely reproducible (to the point that no matter what system you compile on, you will get the same hash).

    Edit: as the other guy said, just use your systems package manager unless it doesn’t exist in the repo and you can’t be bothered to package it yourself. It’s the standard recommended method.