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  • The volumes of cash that Microsoft throw at retailers (custom builders / big box) is astronomical. Worked for a relatively small retailer with some international buying power. EOFY “MDF” from Microsoft was an absurd figure.

    Our builders would belt out 3 - 6 machines per day, depending on complexity of the custom build, the pre-built machines were in the 6+ per day range.

    Considering the vast majority of those machines were running windows (some sold without an os), from a quick estimate after too many beers we were out of pocket 10% at most of the bulk buy price for licence keys after our “market development funds” came through.

    It’s fucking crook.






  • dai@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlon arch btw.
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    1 year ago

    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


  • dai@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldAAAA
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like bait but I’ll bite.

    Most singleplayer titles work perfectly fine under Linux. Majority of my steam library runs with compatibility toggled in steam.

    I’ve got a Switch Pro controller, no issues via Bluetooth or Cable connection. Gives me battery readouts via Dunst

    Running Wayland with an NVIDIA GPU in both my systems.


  • 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.





  • dai@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlNixOs why?
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    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.