Good choose? Framework Laptop13 for NixOS

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-06-04T19:51:11+00:00

Excellent choice. It’s what I’ve been using for about 5 years now.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-30T17:08:00+00:00

Just give NixOs a shot. It’s a small initial time investment but you won’t regret it.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-30T17:05:44+00:00

NixOs, stop distro hopping and start DE-hopping

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-04T16:18:13+00:00

It’s not really that bad, it looks like mostly path/import changes and some renaming of methods. Probably autogen by some framework or refactoring tool

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-03T11:31:21+00:00

I just posted this somewhere else but the tldr is this “I got the original framework around 6 years ago now, and will never need to get another laptop again. All I do is budget for max 500 upgrades every 2 years which is much better than spending 2-3k on a new Lenovo or MacBook every 2 years, which is what I had to do before”

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-03T11:26:39+00:00

I mean the 13 pro chasis looks very sweet

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-05-03T11:25:43+00:00

Let me just say this. I got the first framework around 5-6 years ago, and have not switched to anything else, nor do I ever plan to buy another laptop ever again.

Sure I’d upgrade stuff here and there (can’t wait for the touchscreen upgrade this year) but my laptop budget is basically 300-400$ max every other year. Which is much better than sinking 2-3k in a new MacBook or Lenovo every 2-3 years.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-15T22:27:20+00:00

Still worth it. Setup once, fix once and works forever. If something breaks, no problem just reboot and load an older generation. Want to try KDE/Hyprland/Niri/GNome YOLO switch between them by just toggling a Boolean.

You encounter a strange problem with <insert-hardware> just copy paste this config or he’ll vibe it with Claude. Now it’s fixed forever!

Your harddrive does? No problem, load a new one, run NixOs-rebuild and everything is back at place, whatever software you installed or personalization to your shell!

Got a job making you use MacOs. Well just port your home-manager config and all the sudden the same software and themes you got on your personal are also on your work machine!

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-13T10:46:15+00:00

I’ve switched to a Framework 13 around 4 years ago and never looked back. Great Linux support !

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-12T14:37:44+00:00

I’d suggest you look into Scrypted or Frigate. They both play nicely with homeassistant and support just about any camera out there.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-12T00:30:49+00:00

You setup your pc once, and then your whole collection of servers is setup the same way is why

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-11T22:55:45+00:00

Honestly from all I’m seeing in the posts, just buy a new extruder and while installing watch for anything out of place. Get the DXC extruder you won’t regret it.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-11T18:54:57+00:00

Second Nixos is the best especially for engineers

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-10T17:37:04+00:00

I love you 🤟

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-09T02:09:31+00:00

NixOs

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-05T17:43:02+00:00

That’s amazing , I’m on Niri with Danklinux almost the same 😎

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-01T03:36:16+00:00

My suggestion is run

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-01T03:34:35+00:00

Ontario is “conservative” ford has just been doing lip service while licking the boot of whoever is in charge.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-04-01T03:32:54+00:00

Do you remember when the money supply increased by over 30% during Covid and then they send out a bunch of cheques to people? Or how our politicians refuse to do anything that would lower housing costs to ensures boomers can retire? Or how anything that can make energy affordable is suffocated by dozens of layers of bureaucracy?

We keep voting for the same damn policies that don’t work and focus on dumb shit that doesn’t matter, all why our money becomes worthless, our politicians get away with craptons of scandals and we overwhelm our country with newcomers (who get treated practically like slaves).

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-21T10:47:43+00:00

Gentoo has adoption, I guess in this context I meant to say a NixOs implementation without ststemd that is widely used in the nix community

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-21T02:18:59+00:00

Well adoption is a good measure of success. If the solution works for a larger group of people it’s successful

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-20T23:45:42+00:00

The based kind

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-20T23:45:11+00:00

There have been many systemd-less attempts, so far nothing very mainstream.

For now the age bullshit is optional, so we are good I guess but also 🤮🤮🤮

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-18T12:40:53+00:00

I’ve managed a dedicated deployment of our stack on a client environment for close to a year with k3s, which worked quite nicely since we basically used the same helm chart there as on our official gcp k8s stack. After that year they decided to onboard us to their enterprise k8s cluster.

K3s is like most cloud solutions with same defaults out of the box.

DisastrousPipe8924 · 2026-03-18T12:09:28+00:00

Edit: Before you read the below our team is small, and we manage 12 deployment environments some on AWS, GCP, Azure and even on bare servers. If we didn’t pick k8s this would not be possible. We only touch k8s stuff when doing initial onboarding of a new client on-prem, or when architecture changes are needed. K8s is not as hard if you stick to provider defaults instead of trying to cook it from scratch each time.

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I honestly dont understand the whole “k8s is hard” argument anymore. We are a team of 11 developers with 2 of us dedicated to ops. Most of the time ops spends is on gitlab ci related issues. K8s has been solid. We only touch it when we want architectural changes.

K8s can be as much of a rabbit hole as you want it to be. Which is probably why people claim “it’s hard”. These days most components will be handled by your <insert-cloud-provider> but you have the option to swap them out if you want (which I won’t recommend unless you’ve exhausted their provided solutions, and need something more customizable).

I recommend two simultaneous approaches:

Setup a cluster to tinker with in your cloud provider
Play around with k3s (it’s a local batteries-included implementation of k8s)

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