With that, I’m starting a contest (the prize is the honor of being texted by me that you won):

Guess how much it will take me to break the system beyond repair. I will deliberately do stupid things such as using random niche bootloaders, bcachefs and whatever else is suggested in comments.

If I can’t break the system in like 2 weeks, I’m installing that NixOS config regardless of this challenge.

Yep, that’s it. Thanks for participation and don’t break your system.

Edit: I’m not going with bcachefs. Thanks Linus

  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    You obviously should ditch the package manager and install everything with ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install. And no, I didn’t miss sudo in front of make install, I missed it in front of su - :)

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Root on fat32

      I don’t think that’s even actually possible with modern distros. Symlinks are used everywhere and FAT has no concept of setuid.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Fedora will break when the kernel update to a version incompatible with the current Nvidia drivers. Happened twice to me. Happened to a friend. It’s not if fedora will break, but when.

    Anyways. Good luck on your future nix journey. I recommend switching to a flake config asap and putting it in a git repo for easy rollback. Don’t use the dendritic pattern as a beginner. This will only make things harder (ask how I know…)

    • HumbleBragger@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      That’s the reason I came back to Debian after 3 years of fedora. Every major kernel update (sometime even a minor one) broke my shitty nvidia card driver.

      • RustyNova@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        TBF it’s mostly a fedora issue to not wait for the Nvidia drivers to be compatible to release the kernel.

        Never had a problem on nixos despite being rolling release and using the same proprietary drivers

  • FedX@quokk.auEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I have used quite a number of “enthusiast” distros. Arch, Alpine, Void, NixOS, briefly Rawhide, others I am forgetting, and most recently Chimera. Arch is by far the simplest, easiest and stablest distro I have ever used, at least for what I want out of my computer.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    XFS with LUKS2 using serpent-xts-512b to really nuke that IO with limited hardware acceleration lol.

    I tried this once as a test and it was surprisingly usable, though I didn’t try any heavy IO operations.

    • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve always seen fans call it “cutting edge” or “leading edge”, as it’s somewhere between other distros with it shipping most feature updates once every six months.

      Personally, I prefer something more up-to-date, but at least you don’t typically get stuff in the Fedora repos that’s so out of date, that it’s actively broken.
      For example, for $DAYJOB, I need the reuse CLI, which states in its documentation to install it with apt install reuse. On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, that’s just a dumb idea, because the version in the repos is 3 years old and crashes when you go to use it, producing subtly wrong results. That cost us half a day of debugging this week, for no good reason…