Mastodawn

GravityAce Jul 22, 2023

Looking to Move Off of Ubuntu to a More Privacy Oriented Linux OS

Looking to Move Off of Ubuntu to a More Privacy Oriented Linux OS - Lemmy.ca

Looking for some suggestions, preferably with existing tested compatibility with the Framework laptop hardware so I can do more well rounded research. I’m the most familiar with Ubuntu and CentOS. Picked Ubuntu initially for mid 2000s nostalgia purposes but it’s time to move on.

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Matúš Maštena Jul 22, 2023

Just try NixOS. I have a full distro review on it on my blog.

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theshatterstone54 Jul 22, 2023

NixOS is great, but it has a steep learning curve (too steep for some, it took me 5 installs to actually get my complete configuration sorted with me ending up frustrated and back to Arch very quickly, but then again, I’m a tiling WM user with very specific needs, so there’s that)

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svahnen

I recently tried NixOS, I’m a embedded firmware dev so I need certain special SDKs that rely on being installed in a specific way. My biggest problem was that some things needed to be able to run pip install in the background, and understanding how to get it to work on an imutable OS was way to much work.

It sounds great to be able to reproduce my dev environment for the rest of my team, but I need to work, not fiddle with the OS each time there’s a new SDK or driver I need for my IoT devices.

I may try again in the future, but the project I’m working on is on a heavy time crunch so Ubuntu will have to continue to be enough for now 😆