the average package quality is currently closer to that of the AUR than the official repos of other distros.

Care to elaborate? I don’t remember packages not working, but if anything, they’re not building; which is basically the reverse of what happens at other distributions where sometimes, breakage during building isn’t noticed because the packages aren’t getting rebuilt when a dependency or the compiler toolchain changes.

While the full number might be inflated, it still has one of the most complete official repositories.

You can game “now” ? 🤨

Well, you can… in fact you you could also before… but it’s technically correct

True! My original point though is that just providing a hash for a downloaded file is generally not required. It doesn’t provide anything that other layers haven’t already (a hash only guarantees integrity, while downloading over HTTPS provides authenticity). Personally, I see them as a relic of the past that made more sense when transmission was less robust (though even back then, a lot of layers provided some sort of error detection and correction), and modern filesystems can detect errors as well.

Those must have been really helpful in 1999.

Or any long-running process that’s attached to a terminal for which you can’t or don’t want to guarantee that you keep it open all the time, yet still want to look at the output.

As someone said. they’re different things, though they overlap in some areas.

Ah cool, that’s interesting.

SDL is kind of the equivalent to DirectX. It provides a standard interface for multimedia applications regardless of underlying mechanisms. Except the 3D acceleration part I think which is handled by OpenGL / Vulkan.

Realtime is not about being fast, it’s about time guarantees. It helps with or is required for workloads that require realtime, which I think includes audio production, but might also be helpful for things like controllers etc. where you need to make sure incoming data is processed in a guaranteed time or else fail. Browsing the web isn’t part of these, so an RT kernel will most likely be a hindrance.

My opinion : far too many distros are « pet distros »

I think those are actually great. Personally wouldn’t use them for a prolonged time or anything critical. But I love the spirit, even if the distribution is of no use to me.

Thanks, so yes.

Is this relevant when using a login manager?

Fish is a surprisingly good shell.

It’s not POSIX compatible, but I don’t really care, it only executes its own scripts / functions. It’s not as innovative as elvish or nu, but it kind of does everything very conveniently and shell-y for lack of a better word – and it always seems so simple. It seems conservative in design, but the old concepts have been evolved in a very usable way. Something I can’t say for all the other shells I’ve tried – at some point, it always gets awkward where fish is just elegant.

Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn’t meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC namcap is often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhere

Yes, nix complements your system’s package manager, but doesn’t replace it

Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒

This is how I would read it. But if you have Mesa do it, it’s in software, and you might just be using a software coded directly then, it’s much easier.

From my understanding, it’s the hardware that produces bad results. There’s no encoding logic in the drivers itself. That’s why the encoding is accelerated in the first place.

E.g. if the hardware doesn’t support b-frames – which for long it didn’t – a new driver won’t do jack. This is just about how video data gets into and out of the card, any encoding logic is handled by the hardware.

What made the release exciting for you?

I just roll along on NixOS-unstable, so for me changes just trickle in over time.

On the last day actually, haha

For anyone interested, this was due to a curl regression AFAIK. 24.11 was supposed to release a week ago but a lot of stuff had to be rebuilt.

Foobar2000

Dang dude, I had just gotten over foobar2000.

Ahh! It was such a step up from Winamp. I think I started using that around 0.7… and actually used it with Wine when I started using Linux as my main OS in about 2008. But there is nothing quite like it.