nixCraft 🐧
Step 1. Installs new Linux distro.
Step 2. Spends 2 days customizing the rice.
Step3. Doesn't actually do any work but bossman thinks I’m doings something because terminal, git, vim, and multiple tabs are open.
Step 4. Gets bored.
Step 5. Installs a different distro.
Step 6. Repeats process.
Jun 12, 2025 at 8:03amWeb
Show threadSlacker.MJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft 😂😂😂
Show threadRobJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft Hmm, this process seems awfully familiar
Show threadrandomizedJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft step 1 can be longer if you chose linux from scratch or gentoo
Show threadZeStig    Jun 12, 2025
@nixCraft this is one of the many problems #NixOS is designed to solve 😂
Show threadAdairaJun 15, 2025
@zstg @nixCraft Exactly, I could git pull someone's flake and immediately have a fully riced and setup config in about 5 minutes.
Show threadRam PrakashJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft most likely what I am going to be doing in a couple of weeks 🤣
Show threadsambalJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft were you looking over my shoulder? although my issue was, that I started with a distro that didn't have the package I needed, and couldn't find the package anywhere.. so 1/2 a day to figure that out, and then to rewrite my script for another distro that I can install the package on..
Show threadblondie 🏳️‍🌈Jun 12, 2025
@nixCraft Literally at step 3 right now and bracing myself for step 4. Which is probably why I decided to check my fedi timeline :-D
Show threadBernd HerdJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft
Step 1: 2001: Install SuSE Linux 5.3
Step 2: 2002: Change to Redhat
Step 3: 2003: Change to Debian
Step 4: Stay with Debian for 22 Years.
Show threadPink PantherJun 14, 2025
@herdsoft There is one reason that so many people go away from Debian... this was 2014 years SystemD fiasco.
https://www.unixdigest.com/articles/the-delusions-of-debian.html
The delusions of Debian

Show threadDeni Mintsaev (mintydev)Jun 12, 2025

@nixCraft
Step 1. Installs Arch Linux (btw)
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit

(alternative step 3: buys rope)

Show threadmikeTesteLinuxQlubJun 12, 2025
@mintydev @nixCraft I'll say buy a rope is #2 and hang up #3 if the system break while updating 😆
Show threadDeni Mintsaev (mintydev)Jun 12, 2025
@mikeTesteLinuxQlub @nixCraft the ??? in step 2 is meant to be bashing your head against the wall, because you accidentally nuked your system after installing it the first time
Show threadmikeTesteLinuxQlubJun 12, 2025
@mintydev @nixCraft In that case the rope is #3 and hand up is #4 after update break everything 😆 . Guess the person installing it didnt use the command archinstall 🤣
Show threadRodrigo DiasJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft Repeats until NixOS is reached 😅
Show threadmikeTesteLinuxQlubJun 12, 2025
@rgo @nixCraft 🤣
Show threadZot NobotJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft "Doesn't actually do any work" -- how dare you. It's called assessing potential improvements in the execution and operating environment. Very valuable and obviously underappreciated work!
Show threadManegiste Flou ⏚ (he/him)Jun 12, 2025
@nixCraft brilliant career plan!
Show threadjudgyweevilJun 12, 2025
@nixCraft
1. Install linux distro
2. spend two days ricing the hell out of it
3. cry because it's monday and you have to work on your windows laptop
Show threadMark Wyner Won’t Comply Jun 12, 2025
@nixCraft sounds ADHD. I’m here for it.
Show threadWGJun 13, 2025
@nixCraft I wish that work let me chose which OS I used on my work system. All my jobs just give me a laptop and I have to use whichever OS is on it. I've had more problems with MacOS when I had to use it at one job, the rest have been Windows as my everyday work system.