As I said, the truth is I rushed it, I had upgraded to testing from stable and then tried to upgrade to sid, but it was a reciepe for disaster, lol.

Either way, I saw the dependency chaos happening, I was kinda uncertain which package was safe to upgrade (I had installed a debian package to mention buggy apps, but it confused me even more) or if the if any dependencies would change and cause a mess.

I then found nixos with its declarative nature which I found much less confusing and harder to break, so I spent around 4months testing it and then made the transition (this was the first time I was seriously considering transitioning to linux and I took my time to do it thoughtfully)😅

It’s kinda how I ended up with nixos

Wanted a stable and cool system, so went with debian stable.

But stable was outdated for my taste, so I went to testing.

But testing had missing packets, so I tried to update to unstable, though I did it badly and crashed my system.

After resinstalling testing, I tried to make a semi-failed script to autodownload/update apps outside the debian repo, but I found out that nixos essentially did this, in fact much better. And I accidentally deleted my /usr/bin/ dir with that script, so I eventually went with nixos unstable:)

Rip

I see what you mean, I had made a very thorough post in this community on fetching and applying song metadata in batch, but it got too complicated and moving to linux (nixos specifically) made it even more complicated that made me realise I should figure a more automated and simple process.

I’d like to make a server and one of its functions is probably going to be a spotify-like service with jellyfin or something. I’m thinking of using streamrip with a qobuz token (I will also have to check the arr suite), but until I make that I’m a bit lazy and use lucida.

Hmm, thats interesting, will keep in mind

Oh thats what I had tried few days ago, thanks for confirming it:)

(I think the squid site didnt fetch all the metadata, but whatever)

Not helpful, but oops, I had accidentally disliked this post😅

I removed the dislike:)

I think You know the answer and so do I

Newpipe fails too:/ (as well as the greasemoneky script I use on my browser)

If youre coming on Nixos, I have a lot of resources in the bookmarks section here: https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/LinuxPlan/src/branch/main/LinuxPlan.md#nixos-bookmarks

(This was a guide I made for myself in the span of ~4months to transition to linux and I still update it some times.)

Interested in this as well, posting a comment here just to find the post more easily:)

May I ask, which wine runner do you use? I found that the system’s wine (wine.wow.WaylandFull on nixos) and the wine-ge seemed to works (sometimes only one of the two works, other times both). Did you get it to work with umu by any chance?

Also for some reason I couldnt get Lutris to properly run, but somehow Bottles works for me🤷

Btw, about dependencies, I found the Depots tab of games listed on steamdb.info to be really helpful to decide which one to install.

Yo um, I dont know how much helpful it is, but take a look at the gaming section and the gaming bookmark section of this guide I made https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/LinuxPlan/src/branch/main/LinuxPlan.md

Edit: I realize I use mas, but if you’re ok with less customization you can probably avoid it.😅 The main point of this comment is to make the VM go faster

Yo, I might be able to help here! I recently set up a win10 vm on my linux installation and it kinda fast (not sure how fast you want it to go). Please check the “Qemu” part of this guide I have made https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/LinuxPlan/src/branch/main/LinuxPlan.md

I remember seeing that site some months ago, but didnt pay much attention to it (I thought it was lacking features)

Now that I see it again it looks veeery good indeed, might start using it:)

(I remember about a year ago when I found the free-mp3-downloader and it got shut down about a month later💀, hope this wont happen to this site too.)

Somewhat related to the above, I just found this too

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

EDIT: Turns out qobuz seems to be much better than deezer (until it too goes bad)

EDIT2: I just found this site https://rentry.org/firehawk52 and I see it’s on the piracy wiki too. I should be looking better😅

Funny how this was one of the first tools I learnt once I “seriously” started my linux journey, lol

Umm, I came across this post some time ago, it says some bad things about ventoy😅

https://lemmy.one/post/19193506

I’d suggest Stirling PDF, just get the Stirling-PDF.jar file from the releases. It does really lots of stuff (though I had some issues with creating pdfs with multiple pages per page). It open a port for the service to run locally and once you close it, it also closes the port.

I also use libre office draw (or firefox printing menu) to create pdfs with multiple pages per page.

There’s also xournal as some other people have mention that has some editing capabilities.

Yeah, (among others) I really want to learn git to sync dotfiles and the nixos configs

(Hopefully I’ll probably have tranitioned to nixos in a few months. If I get good enough and somehow build a nas, I might use nixos instead of debian in the server too.)