distro hoping

I too hope on my distros :D

adding some clarifications to the winget portions:

However, the graphical windows for the various installed dependencies still show up, making it obvious that all winget is doing is run the regular setup scripts under the hood.

winget does some default best effort of and on common installer tech to show the least UI necessary. If a UI shows up after all, that indicates to me that the manifest (the article talks about Neovim) does not have the appropriate flags included, or that the installer that the publisher uses does not support it.

Most, but not overwhelmingly, of the stuff I install and upgrade does not show installer windows.

which often leaves your computer full of background processes that only exist to routinely check for updates to a lot of programs in the background

The services are not only for updating in the background and unprompted, but also for installing with admin permissions without asking the user for admin. Stuff installed into C:\Program Files is elevated on admin permissions rather than having user modify permissions, which is a security feature. A consequence is that a convenient update process needs a Windows Service that may install them without requiring the user to have and approve elevated permissions.

As a matter of fact, after installing Neovim, there was actually no way to run it!

This may also be an issue of manifest information for instructing the installer, or installer defaults. Or maybe the installer itself does not provide this?

Either way, of course these things are inherent shortcomings and efforts of integrating third party installers. I just wanted to clarify.

Regarding bad winget experiences: I assume this is not the case anymore, but installing a LibreOffice featureversion upgrade leading to an automatic system reboot without warning or confirmation sucked. lol This was relatively early on in the winget release cycles though.

[Nix] allows users to reliably reproduce the same state coming from any other state, which is also used for safe rollbacks.

What does that mean for configuration? How does configuration and customization play into Nix declarations?

I’m thinking of what would usually be in /etc/, and what classic package managers like apt/dpkg would deliver a default of but not replace if already existing. Where you make your specific program and service configuration that is independent of the theoretically immutable package program data.

It’s also on Steam (Early Access) with Very Positive rating (92 %).

From their FAQ:

Wait, isn’t that just Spore?

While Thrive was originally widely inspired by Spore’s intended concept, we aim to portray a creature’s evolution in a fun and interesting way while remaining scientifically accurate. Evolution will play out on not just your own creature, but those around you, each competing to survive within the simulated environment.

How does it technically work? How and where does it modify the rendering?

It says it works on a monitor, for a full monitor. Does it work through the display color space settings? Or register or inject itself into the window manager rendering?

High performance. Able to simulation live gameplay upto 60 FPS.

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Other languages have terminology like throw and break. We’re not too far off.

How do you enjoy like Azure DevOps?

I recently had the pleasure of working with it. Thank god I only set up CI for a different team and I’m not part of that project.

Try out the fork furrier

You mean specifically net framework or net >= 6 as well?

Where can I find this language called violence?

I think the front and back end of PHP are pretty similar. They are both the same letter P after all.

How am I supposed to remember those?

On word boundaries? But that would be way too predictable!

So why do you join them uninvited? /s

3bitswalkintoabarandoneflips

So, is the account actually read-only?

Winamp Collaborative License

A “source-available” license that says you can’t fork the project, which means it is illegal to click the fork button on GitHub (which is a violation of the GitHub ToS) and also makes it impossible to create any pull requests without push access to the original repo. Source

Oh yeah, I remember that whole fiasco from a few months back.

a ~400 pages manual

🤌 🤘

Let’s call it OG for Open source Games.