Man looking at my old 5960x with it’s 20mb of cache from 2014, and Intel’s current top consumer chip with 36mb.
Crazy to think Intel were ‘ahead of the curve’ so long ago, those x99 chips are still relevant compared to some AM4 chips.
I’ve found that the unstable branch of nixos has almost all the packages that I want / need at the bleeding edge. For more obscure packages I build from source.
Interested to hear what packages you were chasing that are outdated / not present.
Oh man, that’s when they activate the ad blocker blocker blocker.
You running anything from nix-hardware on your system? I know my laptop has a flake there that installs a few applications & fixes small things like hardware buttons for the ga401: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/asus/zephyrus/ga401/default.nix
I’m running unstable on both machines, with nix-hardware for my laptop only.
Just don’t run X applications 😅
I’ve seen no issues on my setup, might just be luck of the draw? What hyprland build are you running? What issues are you seeing?
Works fine on my laptop (1650 hybrid) and desktop (3070 no iGPU)
Under NixOS on both machines, no xwayland.
programs.hyprland = {
enable = true;
enableNvidiaPatches = true;
};
Is the basics to get it up and running under NixOS + HomeManager
Yeah since using NIX for a couple of months now I moved away from KDE, you could customize KDE with home-manager however you would be writing out stacks of home.file lines as KDE is all over the shop when it comes to configuration. IIRC there is a module for KDE to help however it looked like a bigger time sink than I wanted.
For example my hyprpaper config is as such:
home.file."dots/config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf" = {
text = ''
preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/1.jpg
preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/2.jpg
preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/3.jpg
preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/4.jpg
wallpaper = eDP-1, ~/nixos/wallpaper/1.jpg
'';
};
Same can be done for KDE’s config however you’ll run into issues changing settings manually from memory. I’m quite happy with hyprland as there are less moving parts compared to a complete package (gnome / kde), everything that’s installed (probably) has a purpose for my use-case.
That’s why I love Nix, moving my hyprland configuration from my laptop to my desktop was almost seamless. All my keybinds, wallpapers and applications were up and running with a couple of commands.
There are a couple of hardware specific configs for my laptop and desktop but once I split those out it’s smooth sailing.
Being on NIX I’m very jealous of the volumes of documentation for Arch. Found my way to the Arch wiki a few times.
EAC depending on the title works out of the box from what I’ve seen, I don’t have much time these days to play many competitive shooters or games in general but Battlebit and PlanetSide look to work fine through proton.
Mainstream distros are just as easy to use as windows or MacOS.
My pixel had issues with the screen (p7p) contacted google, within a couple of days I had an advance replacement device in my hands and a return label for the faulty device.
My watch is giving me issues currently so I’m planning on hitting up support about that too, as it’s not within what I expected from the watch (won’t connect via bt after a month or so, requiring a factory reset).
In AUS we have great consumer protections, if my watch continues on the way it is currently I’ll be returning it for a full refund.
I’ve found there are still useful chunks of information on niche topics I follow only found on Reddit. I’ll poke in see what I need to and drop out. No browsing, no posting, upvotes or account logins.
I’ve got more time for other things since ditching reddit, Lemmy is cool and all but I’ve lost that itch. The memes are pretty stale here and the communities I can browse every couple of days and keep up-to-date.
Overall it’s been a good change for me, thanks reddit for shooting yourselves in the foot.
Logi must be sitting on stockpiles of mini USB connectors lol. Was so surprised that they were using them on modern stuff.
Even the superlight uses mini, it’s such a pain having everything else on my desk be type-c and my mouse requires an antiquated standard.
My old 512GB 840 Pro from 2012 is sitting at 6% wear, has been through multiple builds and is now a scratch disk in my server for downloads / torrents.
My 850 Evo from 2014 is sitting at 2% wear, is now used for VM / Container image storage on my server.
These things are going to be with me for some time still.
It’s nice to be able to change my keymaps on my keychron keyboard, or configure my kbdfans RGB knob to have different bindings, but I really don’t want to install chrome or a chromium based browser for one weird trick.
I like my OS to be simple, I don’t want multiple browsers or loads of applications to manage different devices.
The G915 uses micro USB from memory.
I’m happy with the logi peripherals that I own, but I don’t use windows or care for most of the extra features they come with.
Love me some proxmox, have two instances at home on some old hardware.
Great starter configurations are located here:
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/
Please be aware running random scripts from the internet isn’t advised.
You are able to have different configurations spun up from the one file by using machine names. My main machine is pretty barebones with minimal applications, but my laptop is even more minimal.
I can’t move away from Proxmox right now for my servers but the option is there if I want to spin up some containers using similar Configs and such.
Picked up a laptop with a busted screen $30 cheaper than the RPI 5. 1135G7, 8gb upgradable ram, m.2 storage, wifi, bluetooth and a battery.
Raspberry pis’ were great early on, but their appeal has quickly diminished in my eyes considering used hardware options that are available now.
Size would be the one redeeming quality of a raspberry pi for me, my headless laptop is thin but takes up substantially more space.