Opinions on linux? I wanna hear yalls opinion on it, because you can do some cool shit with it, heres my own rice for a basic idea of what random shit you can do w/ it

• nix

  373 10,943 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

Nixos as my base system. Nixos offers a new paradigm of system management that makes it hard for me to go back to any other distro, despite the new problems Nixos introduces. The game-changer is that Nix build system offers reproducibility guarantees, an escape from dependency-hell, rollbacks, and a declarative system configuration. This all lets me define a system, track it in git, copy the configuration to any other PC and instantly get the exact same setup, and never have to worry about screwing something up when I mess around with guts of my OS -- if something doesn't work right, I can just select a different system version from the boot menu. Nixos has a steep learning curve; not for the faint of heart. Getting started is easy (you can just copy someone's config, and with minor changes it will work). Getting proficient is hard.

• distrobuilder

  32 526 8.8 Go

  System container image builder for LXC and Incus

  

LXD is a manager for Linux Containers (LXC), which lets me spin up a kind-of lightweight VM for any distro, instantly. I use it to run proprietary software isolated from the rest of my system (such as Steam); disposable environments for trying stuff out, and running software that doesn't jive well with Nixos.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• kakoune

  110 9,581 9.7 C++

  mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Kakoune text editor. Modal editing, like Vim, but IMO better. The multi-selection and regex-based filtering is so useful, I can't go back to anything else.

• AreWeAntiCheatYet

  382 359 9.6 TypeScript

  A comprehensive and crowd-sourced list of games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine.

  

I kept Windows around in a dual-boot setup, just because I got a free license from school, but rarely used it. Even in 2015 a large portion of my game library worked on Linux via Wine. Fast-forward with DXVK, VK3D and Proton coming out, and now 99% of my library works out of the box. Now the last bastion of Windows-exclusive games are the few with anti-cheat software that doesn't yet support Linux (EAC and Battle-eye both do already).

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