Sounds like their target customers are commercial service providers and industrial device manufacturers using NixOS, but need to support stable deployments for longer than NixOS's current 6 month release cycle. Probably not to applicable for individual desktop users, but they still plan on hosting a public channel and cache for newer releases.
The comment thread sparked a few new questions for me.
That will likely soon stop working because steam-run is no longer a grab bag for literally every library out there.
What recently changed with steam-run?
Is using pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs with pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv a suitable alternative?
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
(
let base = pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs; in
pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv (base // {
name = "FHS";
targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
/* add additional packages here e.g */
pcre
tzdata
]);
runScript = "bash";
extraOutputsToInstall = [ "dev" ];
})
).env
That's a good one. Definitely seems selecting substituters closer to runtime is more flexible. Especially when the system may be roaming across networks like a laptop that may move outside your home LAN that links to your local desktop cache.
I'm using flakes as well, so that abomination sounds terrifying...
Do you use it combined with terminal emulators?
Wouldn't that result in vertical scroll snapping to textual lines, and horizontal scroll snapping to character widths?
A personal preference I suppose for navigation, but a bit jumpy to read from while moving rapidly.
Only just got a 120Hz monitor recently, so reading scrolling text now is so much easer and faster than before. Looking forward to any IDE that can match that kind of framerate performance as well.
Too bad I don't own a mac to be able to test out the current release of Zed as an IDE. However, I'm not sure about the growing trend of rasterizing the entire GUI, as compared to conventional text rendering methods or GUI libs with established accessibility support.
Scrum 's a thing that can't get no love from me
Windows 11 (and 10?) supports multiple desktops. Only in the shape of a 1xN grid through, like a 1D array. Still handy for multitasking:
Have you tried multiple virtual desktops, or do you prefer to have a single alt-tab stack of windows? I love using a 3x3 grid of desktops, as the special zoning helps me to organize, separate, and spread out my multiple work tasks.
I came across this community, which it reminded me of your choice of avatar, and figured you'd be interested:
Could you share the link to that one? Thanks. Looks like this TechCrunch article is sourcing info from emails with advertisers partnered with Reddit, not just from public statements about visitor traffic published by Reddit themselves.
I wonder what the measured metrics are internally. Funny that those earning metrics would've been more readily available had they already IPO'ed on the public market.
I haven't gotten around to testing this yet, but I think they just share the Android app proot scaffolding. I wasn't too satisfied with the proot performance on Android in general using Termux, as with interpreted runtimes like python, the system call overhead really shows itself. That of course doesn't change here with nix-on-droid.