Somehow *this* is what's going to convince me to distro hop.
a year ago by The Picard Maneuver to c/linuxmemes
I'm really enjoying Pop!_OS, but their logo could use some workshopping imo. I've been considering trying an upstream distro as an educational experience anyway, yet somehow this is what I'm feeling excited about. I don't know why - nobody but me is ever going to see my neofetch output. Lol
(NixOS isn't really in the running... I just wanted a 3rd example and like the logo)
I thought I'd read that somewhere. I haven't had an issue with neofetch yet, but I suppose I should switch.
Fastfetch is better than neofetch, and it can look the same:
fastfetch -c neofetch
EDIT:
Forgot to mention, I like to put it in my .zshrc file so it comes up whenever I open the terminal, but I had some formatting issues until I changed it to this:
fastfetch --pipe false -c neofetch
Yeah, Neo is dead and no longer developed or supported.
Fast is fantastic and actively developed.
Is nix already "normie" compatible? It has to become much easier.
I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.
Same for flatpak, it's on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement
Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).
Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don't have immich.
On the other hand, if by "normie" you mean "running a browser and some flatpaks", nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.
Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.
That's probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. "Normies" ad in "non-techies" won't easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.
Nix is awesome but has a steep learning curve imo.
I'll have a look into the installer nowadays whrn I get to it, thx for the hint.
That's neat how that's been a standard feature of enterprise Linux for 20 years. They call them alt-packages and, even before a succession of environment juggling and subversion swapping, they worked really well.
(Still do, except all the people who knew how to figure dependencies have left RH. I'm looking at you, Ansible who will soon need containers for even client install)
That, my good friend, is an amazing onomatopoeia
The spiral is calling me
I can't tell if you're intentionally making a portmanteau of "Enigma of Amigara Fault" or not, so I figured I'd write out the entire name in this reply in case anyone wants to read up on it themselves.
I daily drove Debian for a while but the out of date packages annoyed me
fastfetch supports custom logos!
Ooh, I need to explore this...
neofetch too tho
Mine is the Aperture Science logo!
Garuda dr46nized has a pretty fetch by default on its console.
That looks badass
This is an example how to define plymouth with your own logo derivation. Isn't this the most beautiful?
boot = {
plymouth = {
enable = true;
theme = "breeze";
logo = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "out.png";
dontUnpack = true;
src = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
};
nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [imagemagick];
buildPhase = ''
magick -background none -size 200x200 $src nix-snowflake-rainbow.png
'';
installPhase = ''
install -Dm0644 nix-snowflake-rainbow.png $out
'';
};
};
It can be simplified with the use of runCommand:
{
boot = {
plymouth = {
enable = true;
theme = "breeze";
logo =
with pkgs;
let
src = fetchurl {
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
};
in
runCommand "out.png" { } "${imagemagick}/bin/magick -background none -size 200x200 ${src} $out";
};
};
}
Why didn't they just go for JSON?
Damn, I didn't notice they were made out of lambdas. Guess I need to switch to NixOS
Fulltime Linux user since 2001 or so. Tried so many distros....
I have never once used neofetch. I never really understood why anyone does, but maybe I am missing out....
But if you find a distro you like that makes your neofetch look cool, post it here, I will give you a view so you aren't the only one seeing it!
debian when you need image for your docker, nixos when you need stability and reproducibility, arch when you...
i have no idea actually, why arch?
Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you're familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I've only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)
Yeah, snapper just works better with btrfs in my experience, but timeshift is fine too.
I also highly recommend arch-based distros for gaming. The AUR is also full of various tools for gaming such as mod managers.
Container images and NixOS is actually a match made in heaven, so yes it's NixOS all the way, except I spend 10 times reading scattered documentation and tutorials rather than getting a working configuration... Fedora ain't so bad
Would love to point you in the right direction, but I've only briefly skimmed some articles that talk about how the thing I was referring to, i.e. making container images with Nix as the base, can be made.
As for service definitions in Compose, I'm not aware of a way to map that into a Nix native approach. There might be though, I don't know
Personally I just like being close to upstream so that contributing if I find bugs is easier.
As others have said I also recommend it for tech-competent gamers.
pretty
Or is it just a thing people use to brag about their specs in screenshots?
Yes.
I think it's just a thing people like to look at. Some people like the optics of technical specs, and neofetch makes it look pretty.
If your logo isnt cool enough consider hyfetch :3
Neither did I. Now I just don't have time for sleep.
You could also start by getting used to the nix package manager on whatever linux you're currently: https://itsfoss.com/...
It's definitely time consuming, especially if you struggle to find the right documentation\tutorials on how to do things.
Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro's logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).
This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.
That's awesome, but I feel like I need to earn it!
neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch....etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.
Why should something like neofetch be faster? Like it just print 1 time and that is...or do people execute it at the terminal opening?
usually people out it in bashrc and have it autorun
i see, not my user case but i can understand why someone would want fastfetch
Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.
In terms of distributions, I'm not a good example of "so cool!". Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).
I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.
For family, if I'm doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc's are deb stable.
You can customize the logo. Raspberry Pi OS displays as Debian by default but you can force it to be the Raspberry Pi logo.
The coolest I've seen? Artix of course!
(There's also Kali, but it's disqualified because A: not a daily driver distro, and B: dragons are automatically the coolest thing ever)
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear"
(don't know why it's green)
I had actually made this meme with Kali first, then called an audible and replaced it with NixOS. Dragons are cool.
If I switch from discover to some other manager like bazaar, is it still going to default to my distro's flatpaks? Or will I have to manually choose?
I'm not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a "distro's Flatpaks"? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling...
Nobody else needs to see for it to look good to you :)
Coolest logo is guix π
I hate that this is me...
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You can just use a distrobox ...
The package manager isn't that much of a reason to choose a distro anymore.
Neofetch is not maintained anymore. I can recommend fastfetch.
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