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programs
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I can't find a way to use Bottles
To complete my view, I am not a big fan of how the bug are managed as in this issue where EA launcher is not working as intented and is still considered Platinum one year later...
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Will the fedora Linux be the best distro for a Game dev and a music producer?
In Bottles there is a "program installers" feature. One of the programs on that list is FL Studio which you can get via 1 click (here is the script that runs internally when you do that: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/blob/main/Software/flstudio.yml)
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Potential bottles setup alternative
I have put some work on a bottles LoL installer here. For it to be ready, some stuff needs to be ironed, but the majority of the installer is already there.
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OW2 Beta working flawlessly on launch without any extra tweaks from OW1. Linux gaming is incredible
Edit: for anyone interested, here is Bottles Battle.net install script: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/blob/main/Games/battlenet.yml
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Bottles: Easy GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
It looks like the only officially supported program that isn't a game is amazon music [1]. The main project for running windows on Linux has a partially working distribution of Office 365. My impression is that it sometimes works with significant manual effort, wouldn't be reliable enough to depend on without a backup system [2].
When I need Office apps to communicate with clients I use a combination of Google Docs download as docx, Office Online, and a VM.
[1]: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs
nixpkgs
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Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
What are some alternatives?
Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
nixos-homepage - Sources for nixos.org
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
repository - MPM repository
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
Homebrew-cask - 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
Open-Source-Enthusiast - Showcase Your Programming Skills here without hesitation
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
nixos - My NixOS Configurations