You can just use a distrobox ...
The package manager isn't that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.
Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.
You can just use a distrobox ...
The package manager isn't that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.
Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.

Get spiraled idiot
Thank God you censored your local IP, don't want hackers to find out it's 192.168.1.45
The spiral is calling me
enigmaraFault.jpg
"This is my Distro! It was made for me!"
Debb..Debbb
edit : shit I mixed up my junji ito references
I can't tell if you're intentionally making a portmanteau of "Enigma of Amigara Fault" or not, so I figured I'd write out the entire name in this reply in case anyone wants to read up on it themselves.
sudo chown debian:debian "by the way"
I daily drove Debian for a while but the out of date packages annoyed me
fastfetch supports custom logos!
Garuda dr46nized has a pretty fetch by default on its console.

How do you even compete with a snowflake made of lambdas? NixOS could be your final distro.
This is an example how to define plymouth with your own logo derivation. Isn't this the most beautiful?
boot = {
plymouth = {
enable = true;
theme = "breeze";
logo = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "out.png";
dontUnpack = true;
src = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
};
nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [imagemagick];
buildPhase = ''
magick -background none -size 200x200 $src nix-snowflake-rainbow.png
'';
installPhase = ''
install -Dm0644 nix-snowflake-rainbow.png $out
'';
};
};
It can be simplified with the use of runCommand:
{
boot = {
plymouth = {
enable = true;
theme = "breeze";
logo =
with pkgs;
let
src = fetchurl {
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
};
in
runCommand "out.png" { } "${imagemagick}/bin/magick -background none -size 200x200 ${src} $out";
};
};
}
Why didn't they just go for JSON?
Or you could just have a scheme configuration where lambas make sense
Damn, I didn't notice they were made out of lambdas. Guess I need to switch to NixOS
Fulltime Linux user since 2001 or so. Tried so many distros....
I have never once used neofetch. I never really understood why anyone does, but maybe I am missing out....
But if you find a distro you like that makes your neofetch look cool, post it here, I will give you a view so you aren't the only one seeing it!
Why do people use neofetch anyway?
Sure, but I don't understand the purpose.
Do people frequently forget their OS/specs?
Or is it just a thing people use to brag about their specs in screenshots?
Or is it just a thing people use to brag about their specs in screenshots?
Yes.
Theres a few things that its just nice to check. I use it all the time to see what version of KDE plasma/mesa/kernel I'm running and how full all my drives are.
I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It's tempting me but I don't have any time for that.
Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro's logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).
This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.
Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.
In terms of distributions, I'm not a good example of "so cool!". Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).
I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.
For family, if I'm doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc's are deb stable.
neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch....etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.
Why should something like neofetch be faster? Like it just print 1 time and that is...or do people execute it at the terminal opening?
debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you...
i have no idea actually, why arch?
Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you're familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I've only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)
Can also use TimeShift, and there are some pretty simple ways of having it take snapshots before every update.
I also highly recommend arch-based distros for gaming. The AUR is also full of various tools for gaming such as mod managers.
When you like rolling release distros because you're still traumatized from trying to version-upgrade Fedora Core. Although I went with Garuda because of convenience tools like garuda-update.
Container images and NixOS is actually a match made in heaven, so yes it's NixOS all the way, except I spend 10 times reading scattered documentation and tutorials rather than getting a working configuration... Fedora ain't so bad
Easily the biggest downside rn. The scattered/lack of documentation has been the biggest hurdle for me getting into NixOS, especially after being spoiled with the arch wiki.
How do you manage your images in Nix? Ive got a bunch of docker compose files and want to migrate over but havent had the time to sink.
Would love to point you in the right direction, but I've only briefly skimmed some articles that talk about how the thing I was referring to, i.e. making container images with Nix as the base, can be made.
As for service definitions in Compose, I'm not aware of a way to map that into a Nix native approach. There might be though, I don't know
Personally I just like being close to upstream so that contributing if I find bugs is easier.
As others have said I also recommend it for tech-competent gamers.
but their logo could use some workshopping
The Tumbleweed logo too. Used to be a classie infinity symbol. They tilted it 45Β° and put some weird corners in there, and now it looks like Fedora fanart.
You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.
The coolest I've seen? Artix of course!

(There's also Kali, but it's disqualified because A: not a daily driver distro, and B: dragons are automatically the coolest thing ever)

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear"
(don't know why it's green)
Eventhough i'm a void user i really like the artix logo and i think it's on of the best looking logos in neofetch/fastfetch
Could just use distrobox and install neofetch/fastfetch on whatever distro you choose
If I switch from discover to some other manager like bazaar, is it still going to default to my distro's flatpaks? Or will I have to manually choose?
I'm not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a "distro's Flatpaks"? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling...
It should. Install it to find out, you can keep both Bazaar and Discover while you make up your mind
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