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  • That’s quite the glowing recommendation for nixOS!

    Definitely a learning curve to installation, but I like the idea of config once/cry once, then in the future you’d never have to do it again. I’m just wondering how true that is in practice? Like, I configure it once, but over the course of a few years I install a bunch of stuff. Do I have to keep my config file manually up to date? Or once I’m up and running does this happen automatically?

    I’m not opposed to a fair amount of cli legwork to things up and running, if the payoff is as good as you say.

    I’m definitely curious about this distro, thanks!


  • To streamline my request for help, I omitted some details, and combined some of my experiences.

    My desktop has a 3060ti in it, but I haven’t actually run Linux on that lately, besides some live environments.

    Most of my testing has been on a few year old thinkcenter with integrated graphics, Intel CPU. That’s where I was having problems with jittering and mouse capture. Actually that’s still installed, but it’s doing server things so I’m disinclined to mess with it at the moment.

    I have an older PC, again with integrated graphics, that I’ve installed Mint on and have been playing with it.

    Ultimately I plan to more or less replace my desktop with a new framework 13 I’ve got in the mail. That has an AMD iGPU.

    I kind of disregarded the idea of DE swapping, because I did it in the past and screwed stuff up. Maybe it’s easier these days?

    Thanks for the /home suggestion!