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NixOS has the best concept and even pioneered it, but whether its implementation and documentation is perfect is a topic for debate.

However, it's been quite long since I had to fiddle with my config and as such, the downsides don't really affect one on a daily basis. In fact, I recently reinstalled my machine to change the root filesystem and it was an absolute breeze. If not for secure boot, it would have been absolutely trivial, and with secure boot it was easy and convenient.

As such, I consider the pains an investment into system that runs much better down the road. Though I'd love it if these pains were reduced.

nixpkgs is holding out with it because it's part of the current GNOME 46 draft pull request: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/282102

Though I agree it'd have made more sense to migrate to freerdp 3 earlier and have two versions available, like with pipewire.

There's also a nix file in that discussion with a more recent version.

NixOS, did a ldd (which zstd) and then ldd on the reported libzstd file.

Not using a POSIX shell before people complain about syntax

Edit: if you look at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/tools/compression/zstd/default.nix, you'll see that buildInputs is not being set, which means it can't link to anything except the standard libraries.

Maybe Debian's goal is to make liblzma a dependency of everything possible? It wasn't a standard dependency of OpenSSH either, but rather something they patched in. ;)

Here, it's libzstd.so, libc and glibc, and libzstd only libc and glibc. What do you mean? At first I thought you were implying an liblzma dependency, but there's no such thing, at least can't see it.

As far as I know, you can use ChatGPT without a subscription, but still paid. I found https://nano-gpt.com/get-started the other day where you pay with cryptocurrency per request, I guess someone behind the scenes is paying the subscription and is offering this as a service. The model behind can be chosen. So in case you have some lying around, you can just use that, or if there's more interest from others, give me the prompt and I'll pay for it, still have Nano around.

Fedora 41, Fedora Rawhide, Debian Sid are the currently known affected ones AFAIK.

uTorrent sold out, its decline is not only due to BitTorrent becoming less popular, but also because what was once a very thin client at one point was bundled with malware so a lot of people kept using old versions or switched to clients like qBitTorrent

While discord doesn't necessarily cost money, it for sure also isn't free. In fact it's the reddit problem but way worse. A proprietary non-searchable database with all content fully licensed to discord including the right to sub-license. At least, Reddit had an API and is still searchable through their public facing http. I mean I get people don't want their group messages readable by everyone, bit for large groups, it makes sense.

Personally, I don't get the appeal of distro hopping. I think it's nice to try different concepts, but there aren't that many.

You basically have the "classic" distributions, like Debian, Suse, Fedora and their derivatives and if you want those split up into the stable and the rolling distributions (Arch, maybe Debian Sid). Then there's the source-based distributions, most notably Gentoo and derivatives. Declarative distributions, NixOS and GUIX system. And then maybe the newer breed of immutable distributions like Fedora Silverblue.

To me, the difference between an Arch system and Debian are kind of minimal. Yet I'd always prefer Arch. But why would I hop to OpenSUSE?

Granted, I always install from the terminal anyways and build my system to my needs, so I usually don't get the default experience.

Not using Windows except for work, I use Linux mostly because of Microsoft's design decisions. I guess depending on your use case, Windows can be a perfectly fine OS. Personally, I think their behavior is unprofessional (trying to force Microsoft accounts on users, ads in the start menu, integration of AI into the system which means transmitting data to their servers etc) so I'm willing to accept tradeoffs for systems which do not come with these downsides.

In the end, OSs are inherently complex.