I'm really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I've been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I'm feeling excited about. I don't know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol

(NixOS isn't really in the running... I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)

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[–] 76 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought I'd read that somewhere. I haven't had an issue with neofetch yet, but I suppose I should switch.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:

    fastfetch -c neofetch

    EDIT:

    Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:

    fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Disagree, nix is a lot better than standard package managers. For one, you can have packages installed that rely on different dependecy versions

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Is nix already "normie" compatible? It has to become much easier.

    I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.

    Same for flatpak, it's on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).

    Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don't have immich.

    On the other hand, if by "normie" you mean "running a browser and some flatpaks", nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's neat how that's been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.

    (Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I'm looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (12 children)
  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thank God you censored your local IP, don't want hackers to find out it's 192.168.1.45

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    enigmaraFault.jpg

    "This is my Distro! It was made for me!"

    Debb..Debbb

    edit : shit I mixed up my junji ito references

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    fastfetch supports custom logos!

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Garuda dr46nized has a pretty fetch by default on its console.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    How do you even compete with a snowflake made of lambdas? NixOS could be your final distro.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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
            '';
          };
        };
    
    
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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";
        };
      };
    }
    
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why didn't they just go for JSON?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why do people use neofetch anyway?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I want to do the Nix thing so bad. It's tempting me but I don't have any time for that.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • If your logo isnt cool enough consider hyfetch :3

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Gentoo or bust

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Could just use distrobox and install neofetch/fastfetch on whatever distro you choose

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Nobody else needs to see for it to look good to you :)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    hyfetch is the same but with pride flags

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • Coolest logo is guix 😎

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I hate that this is me...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    unironically this is what got me to switch my main pc to manjaro

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