Suspend with an Nvidia gpu

But at least if you use Linux you’ll prevent the death of some poor Microsoft employee someday when you inevitably want to throttle one of them

I unfortunately learned the vegan community here is largely hexbears, made the fatal mistake of commenting on a post there (as a vegetarian)

Ah that’s useful to know, I’ve been using gamescope for that but it’s a bit overkill

I use nixos for dev all the time, personally I think it’s great

What I would suggest however is to install the nix package manager on another distro, learn how it works that way and then switch when you’re comfortable only using nix

Flakes are absolutely incredible for development and I think every project beyond scrappy scripts should use them.

You can specify all your dependencies (compiler, libraries, cli tools, environment variables etc) in your nix flake, then run nix develop and it’ll make you an isolated shell with all that stuff

(For example, I don’t have go, rust or dotnet installed but when I cd into one of my projects directors it installs them to a temporary shell and catches them until I clean up)

The flake also generates a lock file which specifies every version of every dependency with a git rev and a hash, meaning if you check flake and lock into git, anyone else who clones that project and uses the flake gets the exact same system you were using

I need to try working for a larger place have only worked for small ones so far

From what I hear it’s really nice actually having people who can help when you’re struggling lol

I usually use gamescope for that purpose but it’s still a bit of a pain and takes me out of the tmux/helix loop

Oh god no not upper management lol we’re just in a small company

Worst part is he’s the sysadmin

Ahhh my bad I didn’t read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already

I’d love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I’ve found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I’m supposed to be doing

Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually

Also doesn’t help that I’m primarily a web developer

Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2

Fair enough. Got a colleague who sudo nanos everything then wonders why he keeps getting permission denied errors later lol

Could you not just use root to give your user sudo? Seems like a pretty dumb restriction

Yep that I imagine is one of the main intended use cases, in my case would probably be overkill though

Nixos too

Screen sharing from Linux is amusing though, so far I’ve yet to have anyone even mention it (hyprland so looks very different to Windows)

Sounds like some pretty serious cons

Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn’t sound that great to me

I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I’ve only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows

Generally I think “I agree with *.hexbear.net” is a pretty telling sign for the opinion that’s about to come next

The reason people say stuff like this though is because while you can try to force it into behaving like windows, you’re going to get a much better experience if you let go of that and embrace the differences

Tiling window managers, package managers and command line tools are all examples that you just don’t really get properly using windows and they provide a lot of the reasons people want to daily drive linux

Pretty sure they didn’t want to go for command line editors but helix has a much more intuitive search and replace feature nowadays where you don’t need to type a whole sed command