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Ed MacDonald

Reply to @nmlynch901
@nmlynch901 Thanks! Lots of questions...

* What distro do you use?
* What Video Card do you use (which are best supported?)
* Can I expect any game that runs on my Steam Deck to run on my Linux gaming rig? If not, why?

Regarding your questions:
> what software you rely on a day-to-day basis

Do you mean non-gaming software? If your concern is whether I rely on my Windows machine for other things -- I don't (I use Mac and Linux for non-gaming)

> as well as what your main style of game is.
* Single player Open World RPG
* Rocket League

But, to be perfectly honest, if switching to Linux means that I'll have to be careful what new games I buy because they may not run on Linux... I'm probably not ready to switch yet.

That's why I asked the question about my Steam Deck. It seems like I can put just about any game on it -- I thought that meant that just about any game ran on Linux.
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Ed MacDonald

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@novalug Toot!
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Ed MacDonald

Reply to @andy
@andy Ever since homebrew required I take ownership of stuff outside of my home directory (on Mac -- where was it, /opt?), I completely lost faith in them. I still use it begrudgingly (on my Mac)... but that one decision of theirs really triggered me :-)
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Ed MacDonald

Reply to @emacdona
s/OS/Distro/ -- I didn't mean to imply I want to run Nix package manager on anything but Linux. I am not a masochist.
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Ed MacDonald

Reply to @andy
@andy I haven't played with devbox. I did play a bit with devcontainers... but the JetBrains IDE support for them seems unstable -- and I don't want to use VSCode.

I haven't given up on devcontainers. They seem ideal for: "Here's just enough to build this project... and some IDE configuration to meet our code style -- the rest is up to you to configure how you want" -- which is probably what a lot of developers want.

Nix is very appealing to me, however, b/c I'm looking more for something like "Oh, I had this old Lisp codebase configured exactly how I wanted to run on version x.y.z of emacs with plugins A, B, and C installed just how I wanted -- and I haven't touched it in 3 years and I want it to 'just work' (tm)".

I'm REALLY interested in "nix" the package manager... and how feasible is it to use it on my OS of choice?
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Ed MacDonald

Edited 3 months ago
@novalug Can I use this as a forum for expressing interest in topics I'd love to see people give talks on? No? I'm going to do it anyway ;-)

1. Using Nix package manager to set up developer environments.
2. Migrating my gaming PC to Linux. Relevant b/c my PC doesn't support Windows 11, and I don't want to build a new one yet.
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