Except install a newer base system

Grub? X? Those are names I haven’t heard in a while

I use NixOS to document all of the choices I make. I can transfer my whole setup between computers and it just works. I don’t have random modifications anywhere

It’s too retro for me, I grew up playing vga graphic games

Yeah, that would be cool. I want a curated list of up-to-date open source software and a lot of times websites like https://alternativeto.net/ give you some abandoned personal project as the only open source alternative. But that’s because it’s not focusing on open source software

Except it wouldn’t have listings for non-free software, it would just mention “similar” software in some box down the page

Yeah, would be cool to feature all of the projects and let people comment why they like it over the other ones.

The most important part for me is discussion of new or existing projects. Right now I’m just typing in alternative to name of proprietary software into a search engine

Maybe that’s actually how to approach it, for each project name some proprietary software it can replace in the order of what percentage of functionality it can replace

It will be bought by Google and Java will be sunsetted in 6 months.

The usage of the phone’s CPU is usually around 1w, but could jump to 5-6w when boosting to solve a nasty challenge. At 20s per challenge, that’s 0.03 watt hours. You need to see a thousand of these challenges to use up 0.03 kwh

My last power bill was around 300 kwh or 10,000 more than what your phone would use on those thousand challenges. Or a million times more than what this 20s challenge would use.

But appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work

Activating services is the specific task NixOS is great at, you can just add it and it downloads the packages and starts it and generates the configs

It’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.

Package your own if you need it

Yes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists. Very arbitrary

You run the script that generates hardware config file for you, it’s literally one command

You only have one machine? I benefit from sharing configs between the laptop and the desktop. They are not the same, but I can easily copy paste a complex service I defined in my desktop to do the same thing on my laptop

Because you end up feeling unsatisfied with running the thing until you package it. I don’t even understand the Nix language and I still messed around with a couple of packages

Nix has more up to date packages than most distros have packages in total. There’s a bot that goes around updating them automatically if they are from github. Maybe there’s an issue with your package?

If you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works