i recently got nixos working on my laptop and I got flakes and home manager working as well I also have niri and noctlia up and running so are there any more apps and programs to extend my experience with nixos and or improve it ?
hey everyone so I just got a new laptop it's not the newest but a very big upgrade from what I used to have and I have a lot of data scattered everywhere so I want to see what is the best way to deal with all the data I have
the data
my data has been scattered all over the place scattered all over smaller USBs and hdds and it's a lot of iso files , app installers , apks , videos , images , documents , system backups and much more and the total size is around 1.6 tbs
so I was searching around and found tools like restic , xdelta3 , rmlint and btrfs but I'm not sure if that is the best approach yet
what i want is to compress the data and store duplicate files in the best and most efficient and space saving way and I want to turn my old laptop into a small server / testing environment for non systemd Linux distros
my main rig has nixos installed and I'm doing system backups and I want to be able to send them over the network to my older laptop for storage and I want the best way to organize data
I'm also learning a lot of things and learning game dev as well so the file sizes will only get bigger
the older laptop has only around 512 gb of storage but I'm planning on expanding that and installing freebsd as the server os / daily os whenever I need to use that machine and I want to self host some stuff on it as well
so if there's any better ways to deal with data or compress it and oeginize it in a better way that would be amazing plus if there's any tips on self hosting that would be amazing
and if there's any other subs you'd recommend I post in please let me know
hey everyone so I just got a new laptop it's not the newest but a very big upgrade from what I used to have and I have a lot of data scattered everywhere so I want to see what is the best way to deal with all the data I have
my data has been scattered all over the place scattered all over smaller USBs and hdds and it's a lot of iso files , app installers , apks , videos , images , documents , system backups and much more and the total size is around 1.6 tbs
so I was searching around and found tools like restic , xdelta3 , rmlint and btrfs but I'm not sure if that is the best approach yet
what i want is to compress the data and store duplicate files in the best and most efficient and space saving way and I want to turn my old laptop into a small server / testing environment for non systemd Linux distros
my main rig has nixos installed and I'm doing system backups and I want to be able to send them over the network to my older laptop for storage and I want the best way to organize data
I'm also learning a lot of things and learning game dev as well so the file sizes will only get bigger
the older laptop has only around 512 gb of storage but I'm planning on expanding that and installing freebsd as the server os / daily os whenever I need to use that machine and I want to self host some stuff on it as well
so if there's any better ways to deal with data or compress it and oeginize it in a better way that would be amazing plus if there's any tips on self hosting that would be amazing
and if there's any other subs you'd recommend I post in please let me know
hey everyone I've been wanting to try nixos for some time now and I finally did it I got the minimal iso and installed it and managed to get swap working and niri up but I still have so many questions and I'm still not sure how to do a lot of things I mean I found out recently that swap should be declared in the hardware.configuration.nix and not in the configuration.nix file and I'm not sure if I should have all software be declared globally and how can I make sure that the drivers for my hardware are installed so yeah I'm still completely new to how nix os works and what I want to do is get a system up and running that I can do my college work with and still learn nixos as I go and what I wanted is if there's any guides or someone willing to tell me what I should do to steer the system in the right path I want to get a shell going like noctila or skwd or maybe elements from both and I just learned that I can manage dotfiles through home manager I'm still not sure how to install it tho and with the official nixos websites being blocked in my area I have to use mirrors and for some reason even after I added it to the channels and the configuration.nix file I have to specifically tell the command to use it or otherwise it uses the official one
so yeah if anyone can help that would be amazing and I can't wait to daily drive nixos and learn more about it
hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch I've been also using hyprland for sometime and trying niri out using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question
what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use
it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks
and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?
hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question
what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use
it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks
and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?
hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question
what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use
it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks
and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?
hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch and I want to take my rice to the next level I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question
what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use
it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks
and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?
hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question
what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use
it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks
and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?
yeah so basically I'm installing arch and I did everything partitioned the disk and mounted the partitions installed the minimal packages and did the system locale and user and password and everything and when I restarted I got hit with this any one knows how to fix it I already included the btrfs module in modules in mkinitcpio.conf and made sure the hooks were good as well
and thanks
hey everyone i want to try nixos and I downloaded the minimal iso when I tried to install it it needed internet to download packages and for some reason the official nix os website is blocked and not working on my area I was wondering if there's a way to install it offline even the most basic environment and then fetch the needed packages from mirrors or different websites or if there's a ready built image that is around 500mb or smaller in size
and thank