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  • There’s also the Wayblue family of Wayland distros, based on Ublue.

    It’s hard to say for certain whether a distro will work for your hardware, even the Nvidia-specific images can have bugs related to the Nvidia drivers or their interaction with compositors.

    I’ve used NixOS for a year.

    I also tried Fedora Sway Atomic for a week or so. It mostly worked well, but I eventually found that it’s really hard to use Nix for development on a graphics application, because linking with the system Vulkan drivers is near impossible. The loader used by Nix’s glibc will ignore FHS locations. That seems to rule out a lot of the benefits of using Nix.

    So I gave up on using Nix + Fedora as a failed experiment and went back to NixOS.

    My wish list for Nix, Wayland, and Sway is pretty long. I kinda wish I had the time to make a new distro.
















  • If your goal is to “self-host” a password manager, you might as well use Keepass + SyncThing.

    • free software
    • master password protected
    • has organization and auto-fill features
    • can sync across multiple devices

    Usually the downfall of rolling your own password manager is it’s easier to make mistakes and accidentally lock yourself out. Or if you don’t keep backups/replicas then you could easily lose your passwords.