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Got PDFs in my bones. Adobe pls.
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Got PDFs in my bones. Adobe pls.
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.
I just don’t support dogmatic thinking and indoctrination, especially when it creeps into politics, which is inevitable at the scale of the most popular religions.
In theory I have no problem with other people’s faith, but in practice it degrades the critical thinking capacity of our population and, paradoxically, the moral capacity as well. That’s a net negative in my opinion.
Charities exist without religion. I think religions often teach good moral frameworks, though very traditional. But those come with a huge caveat that you cut out a big hole in your brain for the belief that God exists and cares about how you behave. That one idea leads to so much trouble, from false prophets to normalized misogyny and hatred of gay people.
They are arbitrary but they at least serve as marking posts for real generational trends. I’m not sure there is much benefit in trying to find any categorization that isn’t arbitrary, so long as the generations are large enough.
So I’m seeing “Window Protocol: wayland” in about:support
. Seems like somehow I’m just not affected by this issue.
Potentially Wasted
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Away from PC for a while but I’ll check when I’m back.
Interesting. I am not having any issues with Firefox. Maybe I’m already running in XWayland somehow?
After a little more time with it, I’ve noticed that nvidia + sway is causing a lot of flickering on updating rectangles of any window, presumably from a compositing issue. I expected the “explicit sync” fix in the 555 Nvidia driver to fix this, but I’m currently running 555.85. I hope it’s not some other issue.
So right off the bat I tried rebasing from Fedora Sway Atomic to the Wayblue sway-nvidia
image, but I got the error:
Package 'rpmfusion-nonfree-release-40-1.noarch' is already in the base
I think because I had previously tried installing nvidia drivers from RPM Fusion. So I reset back to the base image with:
rpm-ostree reset --overlays
After that everything went smoothly and I’m apparently booted with a functional Nvidia driver. Thanks for the help! I’m off to try running some graphics.
Oh thanks! I didn’t notice “Sericea” was the name of this image when I installed it. Wish that had been more obvious.
Wait. Where are you finding the sway image? I’m browsing the images but I don’t see it.
EDIT: Maybe it’s only Way blue that has sway?
Oh I didn’t realize they had one with Sway. That helps!
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Thanks! I had seen the ublue template, but not that blue build tool. Will check it out.
Gotcha, lack of docs is tough.
Ideally I would use an existing atomic distro with both Sway and Nvidia drivers, since I’m currently failing to install those drivers without getting black screen on boot (the issue).
I just clean installed Sway. The last time I tried a rebase from Kinoite to Bazzite it left me with a weird set of flatpaks and removed Firefox somehow. Probably wasn’t a big deal but it was easy enough to start fresh.
And yeah Nix store can live in /var
. That’s where it ended up when I used the nix-installer
provided by Determinate Systems.
Hmm what you say about the ostree tooling is unfortunate. I was hoping to make my own image at some point. What specifically is overly complex?
Apparently it’s hard to get hired in software. Meanwhile, some of the worst software ever made is being written today. Have you tried using literally any software recently? We’re in this “barely good enough to function while being heavily supplemented by tech support” phase. I guess capitalism breeds incompetence as long as it’s still profitable?
But quiche is tasty!
This reminds me of the apparent gnome-keyring security hole. It’s mentioned in the first section of the arch wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring
Any application can read keyring entries of the other apps. So it’s pretty trivial to make a targeted attack on someone’s account if you can get them to run an executable on their machine.