Monocraft JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono everywhere. Like. E V E R Y W H E R E

Have you tried OpenTabletDriver?

home-manager. a divine tool for maniacs Nix users that lets you do declarative dotfile management

Just a note taking app with support for different types of notes, templates, fields on notes for metadata etc.

I mostly use it to write down my ideas down and log tasks.

Hyprland. Fast, wayland, tiling, animated. Checks off all the boxes and just works™.

that’s a rare insult

That is just amazing. Glad it works for you.

Typst for typesetting. Definitely underrated.

Thanks, corrected the post

NixOS is, if you can cope with a custom “config” language that you will have to use everywhere, your perfect fit.

Updates? Just switch to nixpkgs unstable

No x11? Just don’t install it

Encryption? Just use the config options

LTS? If you really want to, just stick to the fixed release channels and have a month of support after next release.

Hardware? Enormous hardware support range, although I don’t recommend you run it on a Raspberry pi 3b. (it almost exploded)

Preference towards larger projects? Ooooh yeah its a… gigantic project. And also not to mention nixpkgs is H U G E

Yeah, did get these sorts of issues with the same setup (me when im a nixos user). Tested both kitty and hyprland transparency, they were both kinda borked. After some time, tearing commenced and i turned off all transparency.

Kitty with catppuccin and 50%-ish transparency. Works like a charm. And also if you add something like what kitti3 does (look it up on github), will be even better.

maybe the efi partition is full if you are on uefi?

nixos. make containers, easy encryption and firewall config, immutable /etc and a lot of small stuff that makes this more secure

I have a weird selection- Jetbrains Mono with Monocraft and the bold Minecraft font. Jetbrains Mono is for everything except discord. Monocraft with Minecraft Bold is for Discord which i have IRCified with a custom Vencord theme.

dudes with 1 bit pointers: ಠ_ಠ

Also if you’re running out of ideas on what to do, try to Nixify it. Install NixOS, learn modules, maybe make some modules yourself. Fun journey.

The hard truth…

Yes. Absolutely.

For me it shines in the replicability. For example recently (at the time of writing this) I have gone to a different place without the ability to take my pc with me (its not a laptop duh). I prepared my config and pushed it to the git repo. With me I only brought a usb drive with all my ssh keys and another one with the headless NixOS installation environment. I set it up, had to do some UEFI smashing and hardware adjusting but that’s just hardware specific. In like 30 minutes I had my full setup, my hyprland, my doom emacs, and most of that time it was downloading packages.(not to say cache.nixos.org is slow but the internet there was dogsh…)

Would I recommend? If you are ready to do some table smashing and if you are experienced enough with Linux and the nitty gritty of it, then HECK YEAH. You have to know that NixOS is not for beginners. It is a bulletproof distro for ultra power users that, if you use correctly could lead to a impenetrably stable system, which you could reproduce on ANY other machine. And also rollbacks are awesome.

Conclusion? NixOS is awesome!

Mostly… a Pterodactyl panel for my Minecraft server. Will run a lemmy tomorrow ish