• Delilah (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    “They may be unstable but at least they notice when I’m in the room” -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones

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    2 days ago

    You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !

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      14 hours ago

      Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it’s mostly like Arch right?

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        I’ve noticed that more and more, interesting new projects have nix, appimg, pkg, and docker releases. So on Debian, I need to rely on non-native packages or compiling more frequently than before. Not a big issue, but it’s a new awkwardness I wasn’t used to.

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        10 hours ago

        no, texting is packages that are chosen to make it the next version of debian stable, the version your thinking of is debian unstable/sid, which is not a standalone os but a repo that you can change to after you install either testing or stable (unstable does not refer to the stability of your system but to the stability of package compatibility as it turns debian into a rolling release system like arch) Note: you can use Bookworm (stable) and trixie (testing) repos along with sid repos but it’s not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)

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    Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.

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    3 days ago

    The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.

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        Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago…I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.

        (I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).

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    3 days ago

    So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…

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    Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I was her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!

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      Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.

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        3 days ago

        Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only minor major version conflicts

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      I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke

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    3 days ago

    whispering into the void

    That’s it, that’s the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife’s trust, then it was over.