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    [Contest]As a fun little detour before finally installing my nixos config, I'm going to daily drive Rawhide. (lemmy.world)
    submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by garbage_world@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    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

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    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    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...)

    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

    According to wakatime, which I have to use, I have over 100 hours spent on writing my config alone.

    Thanks for advice nonetheless, if I were a beginner it would helpful.

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours 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.

    [–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Do you have a moment to to talk about our lord and savoir Gentoo?

    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Gentoo isn't even that unstable. The main pain point when using it is the installation or not hitting the binary cache

    [–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

    I'll run gentoo in prod without a moments hesitation.

    [–] lemmysmash@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours 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 - :)

    [–] jdr@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

    vm.dirty_ratio=1 acpi=off nosmp

    Root on fat32

    [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

    [–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Install sway on it as an added difficulty; you can modify your config as you see fit to improve your experience.

    [–] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 10 hours ago

    nah go with DWL or DWM with several patches. use ST and dmenu and patch those too. Patch the bar several times then try to add systray.

    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Sway isn't even that unstable. I want to use plasma devel/git/whatever is the newest, because I want to check a few things.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Is using cosmic too easy to make it unstable? ;)

    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    Cosmic... I might reconsider my initial choice

    [–] bluesquid0741b@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

    I've been daily driving cosmic for 6 months and it's worked great. I guess if you're trying unconventional stuff you might get into breaking it, but otherwise you'll just find some minor annoyances.

    [–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    isn't fedora already bleeding edge?

    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

    No. It's point release

    [–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 hours 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...