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I think this should work assuming that the game and mods are compatible with proton. Also, you don't need an external drive, you can access the windows partition from linux (probably not the other way around though since linux understands NTFS but windows doesn't understand ext4). If there are any issues, maybe try the "Verify Game Files" feature of steam. This might remove the mods but at least you don't have to download the game again.

I've started writing a NixOS config to replace the Ubuntu install that I currently have on my server. I'm starting to question if it makes sense though, since the Nextcloud Snap is very convenient (it even includes a backup/restore script) and I don't know if I'll be able to easily replicate all of that easily using the NixOS module.

Wie er es sich vorstellt, Atomkraft als "Überbrückungstechnologie" zu verwenden, verstehe ich auch nicht. Man bräuchte doch erstmal Jahre, um die Kraftwerke wieder auf Vordermann zu bringen und neue Brennelemente zu beschaffen. In der Zeit könnte man stattdessen auch einfach erneuerbare Energien ausbauen. Vor 10 Jahren hätte man darüber noch diskutieren können, aber mittlerweile ist die Entscheidung halt schon getroffen.

I think Plex is not open source but is there any reason against Jellyfin? As far as I know, they also have apps for most smart TVs in case that's what you mean by navigating with a remote.

In my experience, a good way to get a polished desktop with a tiling workflow is to use KDE / GNOME with a few extensions & i3 shortcuts. Unless you really care about customizing every part of your DE, the work of configuring i3 to match a proper DE in terms of polish might not be worth it.

I previously used GNOME with the Forge extension and a few simple extensions for a workspace indicator, disabling the workspace switch animation, etc. This worked quite well but since GNOME is not very configurable, you have to do a lot of that through extensions (e.g. disabling the workspace switch animation & popup). This is particularly annoying since GNOME updates tend to break extensions.

For that reason, I recently switched to KDE. Polonium is a very nice tiling plugin for it. Since KDE is pretty customizable, I didn't really need a lot of other extensions to support my workflow. It's mainly a matter of configuring keyboard shortcuts and a few other settings. I haven't used KDE long enough to say how stable everything is under updates, but from what I've heard it should be a lot better than GNOME.

I personally use NixOS and Home Manager with the Plasma Manager module for KDE. It's a steep learning curve but if you have fun learning new stuff it is worth it in my opinion.

Otherwise, a GNOME / KDE tiling setup will probably also be mostly reproducible if you just track your dot files. There's always a bit of manual configuration but it's also difficult to completely avoid that with NixOS (although probably possible).

Seems like a very weird bug, for me the website is in Korean by default 🤔

Die Probleme mit der Dauer der Verbindung, Anzahl der Umstiege (und damit auch Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass man einen Anschluss verpasst) würden ja durch Hochgeschwindigkeitsverbindungen, bei denen man einen Großteil der Strecke in einem Zug fährt, verbessert werden. Das Buchungssystem innerhalb von Europa ist im Moment allerdings wirklich eine Katastrophe. Die beste (günstigste) Lösung ist in vielen Fällen noch Interrail, aber das lohnt sich auch nicht immer. Und dass Zugtickets günstiger (bzw Flugtickets teurer) werden müssen, ist auch klar.

Die ganzen anderen Probleme sind für mich aber kein Grund, gegen mehr high speed rail zu sein.

I'm currently playing Hades (a top-down, isometric brawler). The gameplay is really fun and with different weapons, skills & upgrades per run, it stays entertaining for a long time. The story is simple but engaging, and after almost every run, there are some characters with new dialogue that tells you more about it.

Wahrscheinlich geht es vor allem darum, eine "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"-Strategy zu verhindern. Dabei würde Facebook zuerst einen guten, mit dem Fediverse kompatiblen Service anbieten, um einen möglichst hohen Marktanteil zu erreichen ("Embrace"). Sobald sie das geschafft haben, erweitern sie das Protokoll mit (eventuell patentierten) Features, die Open-Source Projekte nicht implementieren können ("Extend"). Diese Projekte gehen dann unter, weil sie mit einem Großteil des Marktes nicht mehr kompatibel sind ("Extinguish"). Wenn man sich anschaut, wie oft zB Microsoft so etwas getan hat (siehe Link oben), kann ich schon verstehen, warum man da vorsichtig ist.

I've been using it for around a year and really like it so far. It is however very different from almost every other linux distro, so I would think carefully about it before switching. If you're not prepared to invest significant time and/or don't really care about the advantages of NixOS, you should stay away from it.

Pros of NixOS:

• Declarative configuration: This is probably the main selling point. The whole system configuration and installed packages are neatly in one place. Using home-manager, this can also replace config files for many programs. All of this is especially useful if you share that configuration between multiple devices.
• System rollbacks: If something breaks, simply boot into the previous generation.
• Very customizable system: You can freely choose your desktop environment & basic system packages.

Pros of Nix in general (you don't need to install NixOS for this):

• Huge package repository (also very up-to-date if you want to use the unstable channel)
• Consistent developer environments that can easily be shared

Cons of Nix & NixOS:

• Very steep learning curve: You essentially have to learn (the basics of) the Nix programming language.
• There are often many ways to do things without any clear recommendation: Channels / Flakes, whether nix-env should be used, etc.
• The documentation isn't always great (although it is improving)
• If something is not packaged in nixpkgs, it can be difficult to run it, since NixOS doesn't follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. There are some tools to run flatpaks, appimages and arbitrary executables, but especially the later might not always work out of the box.

Judging from the frequency at which they publish blog posts about major features, development is going really well. I'm looking forward to trying it to see whether it's actually as good as it seems (although it will probably still take quite some time until it's mature enough to use productively).