Bok @sudoreboot@sunbeam.city

I am convinced that what #linux needs is an accessible (for non-technical users) #nix or #guix based distro with graphical install, package management, system configuration and revision/generation management tools, so that common people can benefit from reproducible package management and configuration without becoming sysadmins or developers.

I ache for the day when I don't have to recommend new users to use some Ubuntu-based distro just because they're the least terrible of all the non-programmer options.

Linux #games stores/platforms should use #nix and/or #guix to package games instead of their own custom script solutions.

That would allow
* specifying custom Wine builds
* pinning dependency versions
* trivially maintaining and applying patches
* creating wrappers and setup scripts
* atomic upgrades with rollback
* explicit and reproducible dependency resolution
* maintaining your own easily shareable repos with custom packages and overrides
* a platform/frontend-agnostic packaging solution (no need to use any particular GUI - can just manage your games with Nix/Guix directly)

It would also contribute to the declarative package management revolution.

Just look at this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/lutris/ - wouldn't it be great if those could all use the same packaging format and use/extend a common upstream repo?

Guix is ahead of Nix in this: https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels/games

#linuxgaming #lutris #steam

Just realised how cold the colour balance ended up. Oh well.

Acer palmatum

I love the autumn

Ideaguy strikes again.

I promise I have contributed actual work to open source too.. not just armchair brainstorming. Wouldn't mind doing a bit more of it though.

It's a small thing but I may have contributed to the matrix spec by suggesting the name "space" for an upcoming proposal to support rooms that are collections of other rooms: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772

I may leave a legacy after all 😮

Here I sit feeling like today is somehow different for the worse.

Then I realise I haven't had my coffee!

It's probably a red flag when you try to convert someone from Windows to #linux and they spend all their time trying to make everything exactly like Windows. Just leads to frustrations when they break their installation or user session pushing the limits of [insert DE]'s customisation capabilities.

Next time I help someone I'm going to recommend them a radically different UX from what they're used to. That way they get a chance to really see that Linux isn't just some bad imitation of "the normal OSs" with weird quirks that only attracts staunch MS/Apple haters and hipster hackers.

So no elementaryOS/pantheon for Apple refugees and no KDE, Mint/Cinnamon or similar for Windows refugees.

It was likely for the best that I started my Linux journey using Unity. Still miss Unity 7. RIP.

Oh wait this is actually every day. The elvanse is kicking in.

I guess today is creative visionary day for me.

Me ideaguy. Me start skeleton projects. Someone else pls do the actual work whi-- OHH SHIINY!!

A structural editor like this is exactly what #lojban needs. It would be the second[1] biggest killer feature of the language and it would make today's word processors for natural languages (such as #libreoffice) look archaic.

[1]: the biggest one is to communicate unambiguously with aliens, if that ever becomes relevant. Unless that's finally a usecase for #ithkuil?