I hope nix and home manager become as easy to use and get the same reputation to non techies as brew is and has

Start using it in a distrobox and once you switch nothing much will change except the underlying base os that you don’t touch anyway.

I use it within a distrobox. I love it

Sounds like you may want to install them as flatpak and or distrobox to stop messing with the system like on atomic distros

Just make a live usb of the distro you want to use and check it out. If mint has no live usb usr amother distro, most have. Just use a big one. Since mint is just ubuntu it should be good

That’s awesome! Let’s work together and build something awesome!

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

Tripple backticks at beginning and end `

x = beverage("pint")
x.drink()

It’s a community OS. Any support may be community support. And support for 16 will be there until 17, which basically just means: there will be no new version for two years

That sounds like an explanation for ostree.

I don’t interact with either of following systems KDE Linux, atomic fedora and opensuse (aeon). What is the difference between them? How can I choose between them?

I used a fedora distrobox for a long time. I couldn’t figure out how to upgrade many times. Now, I use aeon with a rolling opensuse distrobox. And I don’t have to think about upgrading again. I am not too sure why I didn’t think of that before (probably because I didn’t care too much).

Note that Homebrew packages are not segregated, so they can override system libraries and present problems. This should be considered an experts’ tool.

To me as an end user it translates to: don’t touch brew. what about nix home manager? Is nix as dangerous as brew?

There’s no package manager.

I’m confused. It’s based on arch but not really? Is it arch based or not? Does it use any arch package manager? The post raises a number of new questions

Neo Launcher.

It’s great. The only downside is not having a release schedule. It had one or two annoying bugs in the past but nothing serious.

I didn’t read anything about nova for the past years, I even forgot that it was a thing.

Edit: there has been no fdroid or github release since 2022. There are still commits in the repo but I don’t know if the published version on telegram is the one from github. Does this make it closed source now?

Companies locking the bootloading screams for a new EU law regarding the matter to strengthen customers.

According to this post https://xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-android-bootloader-unlock-starting-august-1-59449/ there is already a EU law weakening customers.

" In 2022, a new set of rules (delegated act 2022/30) brought cybersecurity front and center.

As of August 2025, manufacturers selling devices in the EU need to:

• Block the installation of unauthorized software
• Use Secure Boot (or similar) to verify firmware authenticity
• Ensure only signed and approved ROMs can run "

“Software” is increadibly fast for me on opensuse. Either it’s the package manager or the connection that causes trouble.

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home manager is as easy as pie. You don’t have to use the OS to use nix, the package manager. It’s a little bit unfortunate that everything is called nix

If the average tech nerd uses linux and uses two computers every day and the average non tech nerd has only one device and uses his computer only once a week.

Could this distort such a usage report?

I recently moved to Aeon from silverboue and it’s great so far.

That is a rabbit hole. There are as many tools as sand on the beach.

One of the tools you are looking for is probably starship.

But you can make it as easy as customiying PS1 with e.g. https://bash-prompt-generator.org/

He is exaggerating a lot

Are you rowing back on your statement against redhat? Am I understanding this right?