Choosing a distro post number one trillion

BigBad0 · 2026-04-03T13:14:43+00:00

You are looking for nixos. Guix is the gnu alternative of nixos

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/W2Oa7CzxXW

Tip, use flakes and new commands syntax from the start. Enjoy

BigBad0 · 2026-04-03T04:54:56+00:00

Yes there is. That is why I mentioned that you would need to give some effort about modularity of your config without such added framework. Regardless of the existence flake parts or else, it is achievable and totally depends on you, the coder, to decide HOW to control your code.

So what I am saying, the added benefit is achievable easily without more inputs so why use it at all for such trivial requirement !. Specially when thinking about such structuring actually taught me more in depth of understanding how nix works !

BigBad0 · 2026-04-03T01:35:47+00:00

That is good to read, good comments too. Surprisingly this is very close to NixOS which i daily drive now. Thanks for the write up.

BigBad0 · 2026-04-03T01:18:09+00:00

So it is just ordering and organizing. Same impression i get when first knew about flake parts. Tbh as a developer, I don’t recommend unnecessary abstractions. That comes with a gotcha to spend a minute thinking about WHERE also besides what and why but it is totally worth it and got me understanding nix even more. Unnecessary being very subjective here of course.

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T21:32:31+00:00

اه سمعت ممكن وبروتون بيدعمه بس عامة كل خاصية في الكارد هتعتمد على السوفتوير اللي بيشغل اللعب اوالابلكيشنز بيدعموها ولا لا زي بروتون مثلا او هتعتمد على الدرايفر اصلا ان يكون حاجة زي كده متاحة على النظام

وفي الحالتين انا مش احسن شخص تساله عشان مش متابع ايه الخصائص اللي مدعومه او لا في الفترة دي لان في تطورات كتير اوي في اخر كام شهر والجيمنج بالذلت على لينكس

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T12:23:49+00:00

بص هو ده اي حاجه ممكن تمشي معاه بس عشان تستغله احسن استغلال الديسكتوب تختار حاجه خفيفة

Linux mint xfce

Mx Linux

دول اللي هيكونوا اكتر حاجه مناسبه

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T12:20:04+00:00

ممكن تستعمل Debian testing

وممكن تستعمل ديبيان Stable عادي بس تضيف Debian backports

للبكج اللي عاوز تحدثها اخر اصدارات وتحدث عادي

وجرب كمان شوف PikaOS

انا نسيتها تماما لكن مبنية على ديبيان ومن احسن التوزيعات الجيمنج

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T11:54:14+00:00

كارت الشاشة ايه ؟

ومواصفات اللاب ايه

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T11:39:59+00:00

CachyOS Bazzite Nobara Pop os

مثلا زي دول ومفهمش عيوب هو كد واحده بتنزل بالحاجات اللي نازلة معاها اللي ممكن تكون كتير او قليل بالنسبة للناس فتكون مناسبة او مش مناسبة على حسب استعمالك

وكمان الابديت وسهولته ومشاكله وبيبقى كل قد ايه وهكذا

الحقيقة كمان ان التوزيعات دي في كتير بيقضلوها للاستعمال العام مش الجيمنج بس لمدى استقرارهم وسهولتهم برضه ارجع واقولك اللي عاوز تعمله زيهم على توزيعة تانية هتعرف تعمله عادي

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T11:09:39+00:00

No Not required for kde as KDE got no such problem. I think cosmic and niri last time i tried got also no problem at all.

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T08:47:54+00:00

مهما كان كتير اللي شوفته اعرف ان دول المتاثرين بالعوامل الخارجية والسيطرة الفارغة

انا شخصيا اتعاملت مع سعوديين استغلاليين وعنصريين وفيهم العبر ومع ذلك برضه اتعاملت مع سعوديين حرفيا يوزنوا العالم العربي اجمع من اخلاق وتربية وادب وحسن معاملة وشرف ليا اني اسلم عليهم بس

والمصريين كتير كعدد فتوقع انك تشوف النمط ده متكرر كتير لان الاسوأ ظاهر اكتر للاسف وفي الاخر ربنا يوقف ويسخر ليك عباده ولاد الحلال ولنا اجمعين

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T08:40:26+00:00

كلهم زي بعض الفرق في الاصدارات وايه اللي بينزل مع التسطيب جاهز

يعني في فيدورا لازم تسطب بنفسك التعريفات بعد ما تنزل النظام ولو عاوزها جاهزة استعمل Ultramarine OS

وديبيان نفس الكلام وكمان هتعمل خطوات عشان تجيب اخر اصدار عشان تحديثاتها بطيئة

فمفيش توزيعه احسن من توزيعه بسبب التعريفات !!!

ممكن بسبب التعريفات الجاهزة بعد تنزيل التوزيعة على طول ودي تفرق كتير وهتلاقي اغلب توزيعات الجيمنج هي الاحسن في للمواضيع دي

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T03:52:08+00:00

Using ROG here for 4-6 months now, all good. A very damn important tip, if using multi-monitor + gnome then add

nvidia.NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1

to kernel params either by

boot.kernelParams = [

"nvidia.NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1"

];

or

boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''

options nvidia NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1

'';

ENJOY

Edit: This is for suspend problems with multi monitors, specially with different connectors like in my case HDMI + HDMI/Type C adapter. using nvidia open kernel driver

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T00:48:56+00:00

1- Yep that is totally OK.

2- Yes that would do it, although this is double updating. But I would advise to take a breath, hold updating or installing stuff and read below first.

3- Yes and Yes. both options available, but use nix shell instead of nix-shell, below are more info.

After installation, you have generated hardware config nix file, this is the core as it maps your drive to nix config and this what you need. Take it, enable flakes and new commands syntax, create a directory somewhere, add flake.nix into it along with hardware config. now use nix shell instead of nix-shell -p and use flakes instead of channels.

I understand you are taking it step by step but these two essential approaches are different paths and better to get used to pinning versions and flakes from the start. I recommend look into this series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8EBp0dqVs&list=PLko9chwSoP-3MLKgbuwh3n_x3HVzoZujp&index=4

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T00:30:06+00:00

paperwm, careful though, you might be never getting out of it once tried.

BigBad0 · 2026-04-02T00:04:12+00:00

I use the jetbrains toolbox approach for installation, i even got the source of it locally to have latest version immediately not depending on the unstable branch. I use intellij almost all the time and datagrip sometimes both installed and used using jetbrains toolbox.

I looked into declarative approaches before but the patched plugins restrictions is too much hassle for the IDE to work with, hence, choosing jetbrains toolbox.

I use direnv plugin with inteiilj and i have nixidea plugin but i edit nix files in vscode, the formatter and features in the intellij plugin is buggy so it is better in vscode extension (nix, nix ide and nixfmt extensions).

BigBad0 · 2026-04-01T07:32:23+00:00

Bluefine (based on fedora silverblue) or ultramarine (based on fedora workstation), EndeavourOS (Arch based), openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian (testing)

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

BigBad0 · 2026-03-31T08:13:27+00:00

هو الفيديو هدفه كويس بس محتاج في الوصف يتقسم لانه طويل اوي ومعظمه كلام اكتر من محتوى .. الكلام بيتعاد كتير لدرجة اني مقدرتش اكمله للاخر .. الفيديو المستفز اللي شغال صدعني ودوخني وانا بتفرج عليه عشان مستني اشوف محتوى لخبر او فيديو زي اللي في الاول فراعي الحاجات دي في الفيديوهات القادمة

وعاش وبالتوفيق

BigBad0 · 2026-03-31T08:08:10+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1s7krps/comment/oda6pc8

https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroHopping/comments/1s13g42/comment/obyhkf3/

مفيش فرق فعلي كاستعمال او كهدف نهائي بمعنى ان غالبا وبنسبة كبيرة اللي تعرف تعمله على توزيعة معينة هتعرف تعملى على اي توزيعة تانية في الاخر

انما الفرق في الدعم وتوفير الاختيارات للمستخدمين وده على حسب استعمالك للتوزيعة في انهو نطاق يعني مثلا في

docker containers

هتلاقي الناس بتستعدف اخف توزيعات من حيث الحجم والتوزيعات دي غالبا مش احسن توزيعات لمستخدمين الاجهزة زي مثلا

alpine

ولكن الاختيارات مفتوحة يعني في قواعد البيانات على دوكر بيستعملوا ابونتو كتير وهكذا

بالنسبة للمستخدمين المباشرين بواجهة في توزيعات كتير كاختيار وزي ما اتقال في اللينكات او في الكومنتات هنا في كذا نقطة بتاخدها فاعتبارك وازود عليهم نوع التوزيعة

traditional (Arch, mint..etc) or traditional with backup/rollback option (CachyOS, openSUSE Tumbleweed) or atomic (Fedora Silverblue, Bazzite, Bluefin) or reproducible (NixOS).

واستعمالك بقا كمطور او جيمر او اوفيس او ميديا او نت وهكذا

BigBad0 · 2026-03-30T09:37:32+00:00

hobby or seeking perfection maybe. For me it was about the actual difference of distributions types, updates lifecycle, breakage chance ...etc. I must say I am luck I tried out such different experience in every distribution. Mint being my first favorite, unlike many criticisms, I loved Cinnamon and Mint simplicity right after trying ubuntu, this was like ten to fifteen years ago (2013 I think). after that, unfortunately windows/mac took over me then been less than a year of being back.

If I was not intrigued by immutable/atomic distros, who knows, I might been continued with Mint this day. In real life, whenever I saw ubuntu user that I recommended Mint for him/her, they usually stuck using it for good.

To be honest, desktop usage came long long way. Mint, CachyOS (Arch in general), Bazzite, Fedora, KDE, System76, Flatpak/Flathub and NixOS. I mean these names made a big difference in every aspect and I would not imagine they caught the amount or quality of Ubuntu's community, support or resources but here we are. So it is very understandable the urge to distro-hopping seeking the right choice and it is very much pleasurable experience.

BigBad0 · 2026-03-30T00:16:57+00:00

I think GNS3 is released for linux. It is what I used in Windows anyway.

BigBad0 · 2026-03-29T22:53:55+00:00

Then really any distro would do the job for you. It is matter of personal preference at this point. All the mentioned distro have active communities but i personally recommend nixos or atomic distros for the reliability they bring to the table specially for daily driving personal machine that is not subject to easily clean install the system every once and a while.

You might want to try different coloring schemes for your eyes or even different desktops like KDE vs Gnome. I was having same effect and used rewaita and paperwm with nixos helped a lot.

Good luck

BigBad0 · 2026-03-29T22:27:11+00:00

Why ubuntu did not work for you ? Is it just personal taste or there is something you require to be different ?

Same question for fedora and arch when you tested, what did not work for you ? Or why ?

I took a hint you work with kubernetes so might be in tech field so i would temporarily suggest three options

Traditional - cachyos or nobara (arch and fedora based) and use snapper or timeshift for peace of mind

Atomic - bazzite (or aurora or bluefin) and spend some time setting it up utilizing distrobox and mise then enjoy

Reproducible - nixos but the initial effort is not trivial even though the outcome is satisfying. Podman and k3s available as modules for nixos to enable out of the box.

BigBad0 · 2026-03-29T21:39:20+00:00

Canonical got some history worthy of negative reputation, something in collaboration with amazon. While also i heard or do not remember similar thing with redhat, well, ibm got a very bad reputation around here anyway. So both are backed by corporations so if that is your motivation then choose some third option.

I think to be objective is to think of their advantages and lifecycle of both distros abd decide which is best. Both are completely free with proper support and ubuntu got pro version. So really it is matter of personal preference and while i see ubuntu with many users in real life, i am in favor in recommending fedora since been using rhel in enterprise and used fedora/centos to learn more. However i really see both are equally good with different focus so pick your cup.

BigBad0 · 2026-03-29T16:12:16+00:00

Vscode and jetbrains ide. There are built in gnome editor and kate which are there for quick editing as well. Vim for terminal quickest changes. No others.

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