wow, looks like i've missed a lot: #endeavouros has the second place on distrowatch now, it's arch-based and the philosophy of healthy minimalism? as much as i've become too lazy to do distro hopping lately, i think i _need_ to try this one.
@tivasyk @EndeavourOS arch is really unnecessary to be honest. It was really good while we didn't have #Nix, the better #AUR 🤣
@tivasyk that said, it seems like the value proposition of @EndeavourOS isn't the tech, but rather the community, which is fair enough. Besides, you can run #Nix on it just as well if not better than me running #Nix on oligarchical #Ubuntu. :)
@jonn @EndeavourOS i need to read more into nix; any suggestions?
@tivasyk @EndeavourOS I think, the two original papers are really good.
[1]: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
[2]: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
After you understand the idea, skip straight to #nix #flakes. I personally skipped a chunk of its history of it between 2015 and 2020. These days I use the big three:
- nix with flakes
- home manager
- direnv
@tivasyk practically, I use a well-maintained script to install single user anf then this horrible ad hoc installation script to automatically install the rest: https://github.com/cognivore/nix-home