Can you elaborate? Why are people disgusted by Hyprland?

I put about 150 hours into NixOS before I was really “done” setting everything up. (Of course, it was completely usable way before that.)

The biggest advantage to me is that that was the last time I will have set anything up. If my laptop or PC or both get thrown into an incinerator tomorrow, I will go buy replacement hardware and will have my exact same setup done in less than 10 minutes.

I used to have serious anxiety about losing my setup with Arch - over the years a lot of config amasses, and sure you can back up your dotfiles, but you better do that after every change, and don’t forget to manually track your changes to /etc, /usr, and so on.

Right now, I am enjoying the most seamless development setup I’ve ever had. That being said, you will have a BAD time unless you embrace nix shells for development (at which point the pip/venv stuff becomes easy, too)

You are right, it’s a steep learning curve and you will have to invest some time initially, but it frees you up in the long run

I did have a weird issue with my printer under nix, turns out it was a bug. I guess 1h time investment is about right.

But that also meant that my Laptop and my GF’s PC were a 0 seconds time investment.

I think that’s neat :D

Kimai is a great option

Pretty sure you can configure it with a key so only authorized clients can use it

It was pretty great, wasn’t it?

Although I must say. I eventually landed on neovim. Steep, steep learning curve, but now I would not switch back again.

I gave it serious consideration when the death of Atom was announced and I was unsure where to move on to.

Looks like in the meantime a lot has been done (as far as I remember, TreeSitter and LSP weren’t built in back then…? Not sure though), but the lack of a plugin system is still killing it for me.

TBH it looks like it has 75% of the features you want from a codeditor, which is much more than the use-case for Nano, but no way to go the remaining 25% of the way.

Yeah this is severely lacking in terms of theoretical compsci.

Oh wow, this is literally what I’ve been waiting for.

Edit: OK, it’s not quite there yet.

Sioyek also does this

Highly recommend, esp. if you like using vim keybinds (you abviously don’t have to, but IMO it’s a fantastic feature)

Why not just use home-manager on arch?

• Windows (family PC)
• a BUNCH of Ubuntu-based distros (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio (which was awesome btw), Mint,… ) on my first own PC
• Arch for years and years and years
• NixOS

I wouldn’t count the last switch as distro hopping though. It was a calculated decision after months of deliberation and trying things out. And now that everything is set up, I am very certain that I’ll never switch to another distro again, Nix is just too good.