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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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zed
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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nixos-config
General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions (by dustinlyons)
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- Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
- Rsync: 3.4.1 –> 3.4.3
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Stop Advertising in Your Commits
I mean, sure, except that many large open-source projects (e.g. Linux [1], Nixpkgs [2], etc) require this as part of their AI policy. Omit attribution in your own projects if you want, but the maintainers of these projects are owed at least that level of transparency.
[1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d18b8f3238abdb2cd878...
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LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
In case you're curious, here's a Nix derivation to make Balatro for any other system playable on Linux:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/ba...
I wrote half a blog post when I did the derivation. One day, I should finish it and post it here.
- I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux
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Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
I've encountered the same KDE bug in NixOS though from what I understood when I did some digging[0][1] it doesn't manifest on distros like Fedora.
Now I'm using Cinnamon until the bug gets fixed which I enjoy too but it doesn't come close to the ease of use of KDE. And when I say ease of use on KDE I refer to the fact that out of the box you can pretty much do everything you need to without having to search for extensions or hunt for settings, someone already thought of what you wanted to do and made it straightforward to do. Sure it's overwhelming to be presented with a lot of things at once e.g. the screen capture UI but when you need to do something that's not the base case it's easy to see that the UI has got you covered.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1pdtc3v/kde_plasma_i...
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126590
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Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
If you really need things others are no longer willing to maintain, then it’s time to learn how to help yourself.
The Nix or Guix package managers are likely your easiest bet. See
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Lazarus
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...
- You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR
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Start all of your commands with a comma
Then I use "$GREP" in the script itself, and develop with grep in my path, but it's trivial to prepend all of my dependencies when I bundle it up for nix.
1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/no...
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Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
Interesting, I have taken a stab at maintaining a repo on the nixpkgs and using a --sparse approach, i.e. `git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse --branch nixos-25.11 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git nixpkgs-dorion
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