Buy a double or quad NVME adapter to maximise the PCI slot lanes on the 730XD
@alphaobeisance35944 күн бұрын
@@mindshelfpro It's got a double atm, but I'll look into a quad!. Thanks!!
@simplesimon39911 күн бұрын
I noticed you mentioned you're not a programmer and aren't fully comfortable with GitHub, which got me curious about your reasons for using Linux. There are so many different reasons people choose Linux, and I'd like to hear about your experience and what drew you to it...
@aa89824615 күн бұрын
hey man, you said you use nixos in a vm, do you do gpu passthrough into the nixos vm? i can get gpu passthrough to always work for my other vms, but nixos just does not work. curious if you've had similar issues
@alphaobeisance359415 күн бұрын
@@aa898246 I started with a vm so I could familiarize myself with the system prior to committing to hardware. Never bothered doing gpu pass through as within a day of using it I wanted to try it on bare metal. That said, I've never had much luck with GPU pass through on proxmox. No doubt it can be done, but I never seem to be able to configure it properly lol.
@aa89824615 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 ah thats unfortunate. i've had a good experience with gpu passthrough but nixos just refuses to not use the built in drivers for qemu which sucks. kinda apprehensive to try nixos on bare metal for my pc since i'll probably struggle a ton lol
@alphaobeisance359414 күн бұрын
@@aa898246 I get that lol. I have all my stuff on secondary drives so anytime I decide to really try something new I just bare metal it. But I'm an unorthodox odd duck haha
@aa89824614 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 lol ya i getchu. ill get round to it eventually though, arch is great but the random updates slowly making things worse on my system is a big motivator for me to start looking at nixos
@brantwinter16 күн бұрын
Did this work with the latest BIOS / iDRAC firmware that Dell supplied for the R730
@alphaobeisance359416 күн бұрын
@@brantwinter good question. I'm unaware. I did this last fall and as of that time my rig was running the latest bios. If they've released an update they may have finally patched support.
@itsrobelschwarz724820 күн бұрын
A Linux user with a wife and kids?
@alphaobeisance359419 күн бұрын
Oh for sure. But I blame the clapped out Harley Davidson for all that.
@itsrobelschwarz724819 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 I wanna see a video on that 🤣
@alphaobeisance359419 күн бұрын
@@itsrobelschwarz7248 I can do that 🤣
@szaszm_20 күн бұрын
Does Nvidia "just work" with Wayland too? Or you're restricted to X?
@alphaobeisance359420 күн бұрын
@@szaszm_ lol I see what you're doing, but it's an aimless effort as idgaf what display servers I use as long as it works. X11 does everything and "just works". In fact it works so well that I care very little about the Wayland project 🤣
@yash115221 күн бұрын
2:10 _"new users should start with Nixos"_ yes, those ppl are right minded ppl. the best advice. i read same suggestion in some other video, where the vid-creator himself said equivalent to: if u r going to be new to linux, then rather than first learning traditional linux first, then unlearning it for nixos;; u might as well _start_ afresh with nixos. who knows, maybe u might like it from get go. those ppl who say "new linux users should NOT try nixos" are downright lunatic or evil in my opinion.
@yash115221 күн бұрын
oh, for context, i am the new linux user who is so happy to have started with nixos.
@X0mbiRapt0r26 күн бұрын
Hey, do you maybe have the file you referenced also uploaded/shared somewhere, like your NixOS conf on GitHub?
@alphaobeisance359426 күн бұрын
@@X0mbiRapt0r busy day today but give me a bit and I'll track it down for you!
@X0mbiRapt0r26 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 Thanks, really appreciate it, no rush
@alphaobeisance359425 күн бұрын
@@X0mbiRapt0r My GitHub can be found here : github.com/Obe1sance/AlphaObeisance You should be able to find everything I use by checking out my Arch Scripts. Most everything covered in the video is also available in the video description =). Sorry for the wait!
@X0mbiRapt0r25 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 Thanks, I had a look through there and don't see the software list you showed in your video around 2:09. I'm busy building my own similar list and found yours to be a good starting point. Actually manually retyped a lot of it from the vid before asking if you maybe had a copy somewhere... 😅 Buuuut, after several weeks of troubleshooting, first trying to get NixOS working like I wanted it to, then moving back to Arch for FHS compliance, I managed to get my Arch SteamBox running through gamescope up and running yesterday finally. Turns out the ONE game I kept using to test my setup (Binding of Isaac as it's quick to download post install and lightweight enough to run on all my testing systems) has a borked Linux port or something, it still does does not work under either Arch or NixOS on any of my test machines, but then after testing other games that worked fine, forcing Steam to use the Windows version of it via Proton works 100% and nearly everything else I've tried otherwise since downloaded also works perfectly out of the box... lesson learned, remember that sometimes your setup isn't necessarily the problem, applications/games, even with native Linux builds, can also be uncooperative. 🤣
@alphaobeisance359425 күн бұрын
@@X0mbiRapt0r #configurationlife 🤣
@JohnTinic27 күн бұрын
i had nothin todo with linux beside setting up some gameservers. but windows was my way togo since my first pc. since the latest updates and decisions mc did it Was clear to leave it behind. on my search which distro to choose, nixos popped up and the idea behind it got me by storm. so it is a hazzle to setting all up, but it feels great and i am loving it. everyone said you know nothin bout linux so leave it, its overwhelming. but the more i dive into it, the more i get the feeling that basic knowledge about linux could help, but its not a need.
@alphaobeisance359426 күн бұрын
@@JohnTinic welcome to the cool kids club!
@JohnTinic26 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 😎😅
@BlackBagData28 күн бұрын
Hey man…did my comment get deleted? I was trying to offer you a free 1U server I don’t need anymore.
@alphaobeisance359428 күн бұрын
@@BlackBagData I mean no offense by my skepticism but I think the real deal would understand. I'm just a man in his basement 🤣.
@BlackBagData28 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 no offense taken! I’m just a dude in my garage. Instead of ewasting the 1U server, I thought I would offer it. It’s not new shiny stuff and I’m not trying to promote me or anything. I actually get a lot of free stuff from ewaste sources, so if I can share, I try. My neighbors love me because I supply them with free computers often. But a server isn’t something any of them could use because I’m the only one in my town with servers in the garage :)
@alphaobeisance359419 күн бұрын
You sound like my kind of people lol. I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to it brother man, as the more familiar I am with different hardware the better off I'll be. But long story short, we just took in my sister in law and her family, so we're supporting 5 more bodies, 2 more dogs, and 2 more cats (it's a freaking zoo in here), so finances are spread thinner than saran wrap on a busted water pipe lol. I couldn't even cover shipping man, but I do appreciate it! I've met a lot of cool folks since starting this journey. And I'm honored you'd consider helping me out like that. But I'm not one to take somethin for nothin, everything is earned, nothing is given =). Sorry it took me so long to get back to ya! And again, I hope I didn't come off as stand offish. But with AI and bots these days, it's hard telling who's who anymore lol
@BlackBagData19 күн бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 lol love the analogy of saran wrap! That made me laugh. You’re a good man to have everyone at the house. That just means you need to live with your equipment! I get it. I’ve been the same way. But I’ve also been given stuff and pay it forward where I can. You wouldn’t need to cover shipping. I donated 3 Raspberry Pis and one cost $40 to ship to Canada! That’s crazy for the small size and practically no weight. Anyway, I wouldn’t need the cost covered. I have been trying to sell it on CL for 2 months, but no bites. And no offense taken. You’re not being standoffish. You’re busy so there’s no expectations. Trust me, I’m no AI bot lol. Offer still stands, but no pressure. Let me know if you change your mind.
@alphaobeisance359419 күн бұрын
@@BlackBagData "Trust me, I'm no AI robot" - Totally Not an AI robot 🤣. Sorry but that cracked me up! At this point I'm prepared to lose touch with reality at this rate. AI is achieving the unimaginable. Anymore, it's more of a gamble on Faith and trust. I use protonmail. Same username. Feel free to reach out. It's nice to run into birds of a feather. Even if only for conversation.
@Glxrys._dr4g0ns29 күн бұрын
Ello >:3 Also ur studio is cool :)
@alphaobeisance359429 күн бұрын
@@Glxrys._dr4g0ns thank you! I can't wait to share more! I appreciate you saying hello!
@LilithBrexАй бұрын
u got a rad setup fr
@alphaobeisance359429 күн бұрын
@@LilithBrex thank you! It's been fun learning!
@BleakgardenrainАй бұрын
Lab setup is looking good there man.
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@Bleakgardenrain much appreciated!!! It's a lot to take on, I feel overwhelmed but am confident I'll have it configured soon. Thanks for watching! Double thanks for dropping a comment!
@maticz3923Ай бұрын
Using it as daily driver for a month or so After commiting to installing it as my main system, actually was motivated to learn it and it wasnt hard
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
Right! It's a solid system for sure. Glad you're enjoyin it!
@The-Weekend-WarriorАй бұрын
The R730 has 2 back flex bays for 2 SFF drives on a 6Gbps line, why not pop 2 mirrored SATA SSD-s in there and boot off of that? Sacrificing a PCIe slot for booting and the base OS seems a waste.
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@The-Weekend-Warrior cuz you hadn't learnt meh yet 🤣
@The-Weekend-WarriorАй бұрын
Isn't the second slot on that Supermicro adapter card a SATA slot instead of an NVME? If it was 2 NVME-s, that would be a super buy there, sadly all similar adapters that I ran into are NVME + SATA.... :(
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@The-Weekend-Warrior I'll have to check! Good point!
@The-Weekend-WarriorАй бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 I did check in the meantime. They are indeed separate NVMe blades. Which is supernice, HOWEVER, they use slot bifurcation to work so unless you enable PCIe slot bifurcation on the server (deep in the BIOS settings), you won't be able to use them both (or at all?)... I didn't know this existed, thanks for the info!!
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@The-Weekend-Warrior ditto! I'll look into this and do some tinkering. Think I got a spare NVMe to drop in.... for science! 🤣
@michaelgleason4791Ай бұрын
Dependency hell sucks. That's why I run all of my headless machines with docker. This may be the video that convinces me to give nixos a go. I'm hating Bazzite.
@KingKrouchАй бұрын
Been using NixOS on my laptop for a bit to see how it fares next to my current distro of choice, Fedora. So far, Blender with HIP support for AMD GPU rendering just works on my gaming laptop, while I couldn't get it working in Fedora. I'm still going to use Fedora in a distrobox container for coding and game development tasks, but Nix has been pretty solid for me so far. I just need to figure out BTRFS subvolumes, a solution to back up my system files to a 16TB external hard drive of mine, ROCM with Davinci Resolve, Secure Boot with GRUB, Clevis TPM disc decryption, and a few other issues, and I should be able to try Nix on my desktop. Regarding Wayland support on NVIDIA, the latest NVIDIA drivers makes it usable finally. Seems like that's going to be the way forward if you want VRR and HDR. I heard that GSync (on NVIDIA cards) is usable on X11 and back when I had an RTX 3070 I didn't have an issue with that, but AMD and Intel has a suboptimal hack for it which just gave me problems, and makes it hard for me to recommend something like Mint Cinnamon (where there's no Wayland support) to someone just getting started with Linux.
@nicoiguess9318Ай бұрын
Is that internally mounted USB drive now permanent there as a bootloader or how does that work?
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@nicoiguess9318 it is. It's now my dedicated boot loader as it boots clover for me so that I can boot into proxmox
@nicoiguess9318Ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 so it's basically like grub, only that u can just choose proxmox and it will also find the pcie adapter and boot using the nvme ssd?
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
precisely! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Was on vacation =)
@nicoiguess9318Ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 Already done it, now it's booting from my m.2 :)
@bulcubАй бұрын
works like a charm!
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@bulcub sure does!!
@bulcubАй бұрын
thanks bro!
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
@@bulcub my pleasure!
@Sindarul2 ай бұрын
I don't play such a large variety of games, but I would say that 99% of what I need, I can play (looking at you Assetto Corsa), even if it requires a tiny bit of tinkering. For some years, Kubuntu was the 'just works' distro for me, but after that I switched to Arch and I still don't have issues. I would say that Wayland + KDE + Nvidia Optimus laptop is still not an option for sane people, but I don't mind sticking with X11 for a while. I do, however, think that Linux gaming is a thing and was a thing for some years now. And every contribution counts to make it even better, even just having a Linux gaming machine, if you cannot find bugs and such. Add to the numbers.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Gaming on linux has been possible for a long time now, but since Valves contributions over the past 5 years; it's made exponential leaps forward to the extent that I don't even hesitate to pre-order games anymore as I'm so confident the games will "just work" out the box. Good time to be gaming on Linux ^_^
@Matt20102 ай бұрын
So agree with you, Just have to know, and or at least listen to those that know on specific Distro's. like in my case on any flavor of Ubuntu, either you can with the Live USB disk get into grub first and press the E key to edit, and after either nosplash or splash then with a space type nomodeset and ctrl -x or F10 to boot. Then Once you get the OS installed and reboot again back into grub lol and repeat. I know kinda annoying. But you'll thank me, especially if you don't set the nomodeset at grub. Then of course 2 options either you can right away install NVIDIA drivers through, on Ubuntu its "Additional Drivers" and install then, or update the software of the OS and or upgrade to newer releases first and once entirely done, making sure you do that nomodeset at grub setting during whole upgrade/update of OS. I haven't done many distro's but its got to be very similar. Do not go to nvidia website to try unless if ya the hacker type then hack away at getting those to work on your PC, trust me its a lot more work and complicated. I tried it once, did I succeed Kind of but it wasn't perfect, so yea had to remove it and do the former usual way.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
The above video is regarding NixOS, not Ubuntu my friend. That said. Yes, good advice on the nomodeset for sure. You can install NVIDIA proprietary drivers on Debian based systems (like Ubuntu) with the 'nvidia-dkms-535 ' package. So whether you're adding it to the additional packages list during the installation from live USB, or if you simply install Ubuntu and run ' sudo apt install nvidia-dkms-535 ' via terminal after boot, proprietary drivers are easily installed. Never install from NVIDIA website. NixOS operates entirely differently, but installing the nvidia-proprietary drivers is done similarly through the nix configuration file instead of via terminal (unless using a terminal based text editor ofc). If I misunderstood your context I apologize.
@prostagma60552 ай бұрын
Based we started at the same point went down the same path and arrived at the same conclusion
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@prostagma6055 Blade approves!
@ash1kh2 ай бұрын
For me PopOS gnome gave me longest stable run (past 3 yrs). Before that it was ARCO kde (1 yr). I never thought to distro hop ever again and installed nixos on my spare SSD. Oh boi.... Rest is history 😂
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I love a good romance 🤣
@matthewbentley14422 ай бұрын
Personally I run an NVIDIA Graphics card with an AMD CPU, and I've had a hell of a time trying to get the drivers to work properly on any Arch Installation. Every time I install the propitiatory drivers, the resolution of my monitors tanks, and there is no way to configure the resolution in NVIDIA Control panel or the display settings. The issue probably has something to do with the Arch Install Script, and the specific Hardware I'm using, as I haven't done a full Arch install without the Script since 2020. I'm sure after tinkering with the configs for a while I could resolve the issues I have with NVIDIA, but I don't do too much gaming anymore.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@matthewbentley1442 sounds like your maybe trying to run Wayland. Switch to X and it should smooth out. Wayland makes my rigs go ape shit too lol.
@matthewbentley14422 ай бұрын
I do recall reading that Wayland had some bugs to be sorted out, that probably is the issue
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@matthewbentley1442 yeah I haven't tried Wayland in a hot second as it never played nice. Heard there have been improvements, but until it's as rock solid as X I likely won't switch. P.s. I use archinstall these days as I can't be bothered with a manual install anymore. So I'd write that off as a potential issue. I'd bank on Wayland being the issue for sure. If not lmk, I like a good mystery haha
@matthewbentley14422 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 iirc I tried switching from Wayland to X and the issue was persistent. I'll do some tinkering
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@matthewbentley1442 sudo pacman -S amd-ucode nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-toolkit What DE are you using? If it's KDE try disabling the compositor. Just shooting in the dark here, I never had much issue with KDE until 6.0 released, it's been broken for me ever since lol using i3 now
@munshidomain2 ай бұрын
How about games with anti-cheats? Like Vanguard and Easy...
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Linux supports EAC, VAC, Battleye, FairFight, Punkbuster and so on. I've played Apex Legends, which uses EasyAntiCheat by EA. Battlefield uses punkbuster or battleye, I don't recall but I know both have support. If I recall, Valorant uses Vanguard and is not supported but it's been a good while since I've looked into that, so it may have changed. But last I knew Valorant is unplayable due to the anti-cheat deployed by RIOT. I looked up Fornites anti-cheat and apparently it uses EAC, so it's literally at the fault of Epic Games for not enabling the Linux support within Fortnite to make it playable on Linux. (This is something they CAN, and HAVE done in many games, but Fortnite is their cash cow, so it's unlikely they'll do so). I looked up COD's anti-cheat and they use their own propriety anti-cheat called "ACT" or "anti-cheat technology" and I've played several COD games, including Warzone. Check www.protondb.com for game compatibility. The database is rather dated, and I find the ratings don't properly reflect the play-ability of games today as it's improved so greatly over the past 3-4 years that it's just impossible to have a legitimate rating without wiping the old database and building a new one with new reviews.
@munshidomain2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 Appreciate your work man.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Just tryin to help =). Gaming on Linux has reached a point where it's no longer about technical limitations, as the systems run games just fine. So good in fact that I pre-order games frequently (Baulders Gate 3, STALKER2 being most recent), and I don't do so lightly. Being willing to preorder major titles like that with such confidence that they will run speaks volumes as to how far Linux has come in terms of technical capabilities. And while last year was HUGE for Anti-Cheat support on Linux, there are still some big anti-cheat players out there that refuse to enable Linux support (the support generally exists, but devs don't always enable it). So the only people who really end up hurting on Linux are those that are wholly committed to playing games that either haven't had their linux anti-cheat support enabled, or in a few niche circumstances, don't have support at all (like Denuvo). It's really like any other gaming platform at this point. Can't play Playstation or Xbox exclusive titles on opposing consoles, and in the same way some games just wont play on Linux. Thankfully though, games playable on Linux far outnumber those unplayable. Thanks for commenting! I enjoy the conversations!
@iranoutofusernameideas74382 ай бұрын
Can you make a tutorial on how to easily install steam on arch linux? I haven't been able to figure it out and already tried following a guide and when I installed steam and tried to login the app kept crashing and went black and would not respond.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
open your terminal and type "sudo pacman -S steam" without quotations.=) if you have an Nvidia card you can do sudo pacman -S steam nvidia-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader this will install steam, nvidia drivers and the vulkan-icd-loader package will enable you to turn on ray tracing in compatible games.
@iranoutofusernameideas74382 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 Yeah I installed steam but when I tried to sign in it went to a black screen and I tried restarting the application but it still went to a black screen and I wasn't able to access the store or library.
@connorjames10662 ай бұрын
I'm reasonably certain you will also have to uncomment the multilib repository in /etc/pacman.conf
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@connorjames1066 yes I did forget about that. I enable that by default during installation so I don't often think of it beyond that lol
@diggity9112 ай бұрын
I just got a dell r730xd in. I actually bought the exact same card and drive as you but proxmox is not seeing it. I’m brand new to enterprise servers so maybe I have something wrong in the bios but I can’t find it. Anything special I need to do so it shows up?
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Welcome to the fun stuff! You'll need to ensure you have virtualization enabled in the servers BIOS. If I recall that was all I had to do on the BIOS side (i'll update you if I recall differently) and then after that you could use GPU pass through (must be logged in as root it seems) but then you can add the GPU via PCIe device in the Proxmox VM hardware settings.
@diggity9112 ай бұрын
It is enabled on mine. Are you sure you don’t need the dell card? That’s the only think I can tell that may be different.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
When I installed Proxmox the server itself recognized the NVMe via PCIe and I was able to install Promox, but upon installation of Proxmox and rebooting the server no longer recognized the drive. I had to resort to installing Clover EFI Boot loader onto a USB that I mounted internally and utilized that as the priority boot loader. After that I was able to power up, Clover recognized the Proxmox M.2 and booted up perfectly ever since. You can find clover here if you wanna give it a try. github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader?tab=readme-ov-file
@DangerBKR2 ай бұрын
This past 2 months alone, I've been able to jam most everything from Hogwarts, Elden Ring, and Elite Dangerous on NixOS, Arch, and Debian. Awesome video man.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Yes! All fantastic games!
@jakobw1352 ай бұрын
Can you play the original Batman Arkham City game on Linux, using NixOS?
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
you can =) just make sure you have the appropriate drivers installed per your hardware requirements.
@twenty-fifth4202 ай бұрын
As a developer and current Arch User, Nix OS has always had me looking. I personally like Arch, but the mechanics of the PM can be a bit annoying compared to how relatively hands of Ubuntu/Fedora's are, and variants close to them. That said, I look at Nix and I think to myself "This is how programs should be written." I am doing a game in godot and I just compiled it from source, but also I just had a performance dip on PCSX2 (probably a regression somewhere) and yeah, it is always something. If I just had 'rollback', I feel like I would not be as concerned lol. I personally rather use old and stable if it means I do not have to be the first one using new stuff and stumbling through it. Maybe when I build my new machine alongside BSD and PopOS, I will install Nix as my personal development workstation.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@twenty-fifth420 that sounds like a solid idea! I wish I had your skills!
@Nebulorum2 ай бұрын
Still learning nix and nixos. From what i got you can pin versions using flakes. You can also use overlays yo get some packages from different places.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@Nebulorum you can manage version control through the nix configuration but you are correct in that I hear flakes helps with nix management for sure. But I'm not familiar
@EgoOdiosis2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594I think flakes complete the picture for nix. It makes nix far easier to wrap your head around, I spent much less time asking “where did that bit come from” or “why/how does that work”
@EgoOdiosis2 ай бұрын
Using overrides seems to be the solution for what hes mentioning. It is fairly simple to override a package to a specific url of a deb or rpm package which I assume proton provides
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@EgoOdiosis correct. in the config you can just modify the URL to reflect the version of choice in the nix configuration and rebuild. EZPZ =)
@MAJEPHTIC2 ай бұрын
I see an asciiquarium -t enjoyer, I like.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Cmatrix-git is real nice too!
@philosophia55772 ай бұрын
Welcome to the NixOS. You are the first person I am seeing who isnt a developer and uses NixOS so kudos!!! What i really want to say is the real awesomeness of NixOS doesnt come until you use dev environments and all such things.. I would recommend learning a language(apart from nix language, lol) like Python and giving it a go in NixOS. Once you understand it completely, you'll know its a boon to developers!!!
@user-rm4ex1sx5q2 ай бұрын
Flakes, impermanence, disko and ofcourse home-manager.
@SearchFinger2 ай бұрын
If you're a beginner good luck installing your first distro using Arch and expect to have a smooth install. You'll just end up pulling your hairs out. So I still would recommend the beginner distro mentioned because it just make sense.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
$ archinstall EZPZ
@sharperguyАй бұрын
If you're a programmer and have a lot of time to spare you might enjoy something like Arch more than just plopping ubuntu on and then not being sure what the type is about.
@ThisUploaded2 ай бұрын
NixOS has been spreading like wild fire through the linux community. I gotta say, i understand the appeal. Just loaded up Endeavor on an old laptop that was laying around and it's been great. But all this NixOS talk is making me want to try that out on my home server. Had Manjaro on their for the last 4 or so years and it's had multiple instances where the order updates are provided breaks the system in a way where it will only update if i remove packages first and then do the update and manually re install said packages. Idk what on earth they've been doing, but if NixOS is really as good as people keep saying, I'm going to have to make the switch soon.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
It's definitely the forerunner in any considerations if I were to leave Arch for sure. I use Proxmox for the homelab's hypervisor and Arch on all the personal rigs. I plan to be diving into some NixOS VM's here soon so I can get better acquainted with it. I installed it on hardware to see how it would perform, and once I got the display situated it was really smooth, even with a novice configuration. Once I understood how that configuration worked, it was really nice to be able to go to one location to manage the system environment and rebuild in a matter of seconds (figuratively speaking). I'll definitely be bringing my NixOS experiences to the channel as I get into it. Just got my first rack so I'm in the middle of re-configuring everything to my liking 🤌
@MrAwesomeTheAwesome2 ай бұрын
Hey there! Just switched over to NixOS just today and working on getting it all set up. Coming along pretty well, but I seem to be having some trouble with my Nvidia drivers in Krita. Noticed you have the program in your install list, so I'm curious - are you having any trouble with flickering with hardware acceleration turned on in Krita? And, even better, do you have any idea why mine is doing this or how to fix it? This is really my main problem right now. The whole UI flickers black, and overlay elements like the brush picker when right-clicking seem to zfight back *behind* the canvas. Seems like some kind of buffer problem, then, right?
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I would first try disabling hardware acceleration in krita by going to Settings -> Configure Krita -> Display -> uncheck Enable OpenGL or at least tinker with the OpenGL settings. Wish I had better advice atm but my kids are all over the place this AM lol
@MrAwesomeTheAwesome2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 It *does* work to solve the flickering. Unfortunately, I'm quite picky about the experience of panning/rotating and it's awful without hardware acceleration (my processor is terrible, to be fair). I'm sure I'll figure something out with enough tinkering! Thanks for the tip, and if you think of anything else that might help, let me know. :)
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@MrAwesomeTheAwesome I can totally relate to that, I'd be lost on the Wacom if not for panning and rotation! Lemme know if you get it fingered out!
@MrAwesomeTheAwesome2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 So you'll probably find this funny like I did. I've read every horrible thing about Wayland and Nvidia compatibility, but switching off from x11 to Wayland removed almost all the flickering. Now occasionally there's a little blip - mildly annoying and definitely worse than it was on my Windows install. But, it works, and is fairly performant! Seems like Wayland support is catching up rapidly on Nvidia (probably because of Steam and Proton, as I understand it?) So I'm hoping it'll get even better in the coming months.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@MrAwesomeTheAwesome I should have thought of that out the gate tbh lol. I use x11 religiously because of nvidia. I don't even consider Wayland it goes so unused lol! Glad you got it mostly worked out!
@erwynnipegerwynnipeg84552 ай бұрын
You're a great talker and have a very funny personality. Your singing isn't the worst... you do have the spirit, that's what matters, you know. I love your video!
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I appreciate the support. I've always had a bit of a goofy personality. Beware of my rant videos, Mr.Hyde tends to jump out and scare people lol! Hoping to get a server update here soon.
@SuperTort0ise2 ай бұрын
I'm an arch fan(and avid distro hoper)I've been looking into nix and it's hard but only because im too stupid lol, definitely gonna switch to nixos, it seems like everything i want and more. but for now it's on a second system as i try to get everything configured.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I'm Purdy stoopid too my friend! You got this! I enjoy NixOS and look forward to the future using it. But until then ima stay an Arch Fanboy 🤣
@SuperTort0ise2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 I'll always be an arch fan, thanks for the words of encouragement!
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
@@SuperTort0ise No problem man! Check out my latest video for a link and explanation to my Nix config, as well as some other goodies. Might find something useful with any luck! Arch FTW!
@heinzowski2 ай бұрын
I'm using arch now but NixOS is actually the best OS i've ever used :)
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I'm a big arch fanboy :P but I definitely see the potential in Nix come the day I ever get time to really fine tune it =D
@yramagicman6752 ай бұрын
Like you, I used to be an arch person. Now I manage 4 nixos machines from a single flake, all all nixos unstable. Every single one of them is rock solid.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
that's good to hear!
@matthiasbendewald18032 ай бұрын
Exactly Same,only that i use stable and was on tumbleweed as an in-between step. NixOS is Just awesome!
@simquinoa20302 ай бұрын
Thanks, been using nix for little while but was always afraid of gaming.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
No problem!
@Redmage9132 ай бұрын
I can’t do programming - as an example, I flunked Intro to Java three times, but that third time must’ve passed the class because he was a C++ instructor just doing his best and I only completed maybe a third of the course….. My limit is a basic DOS-era autoexec.bat file to load up a simple text file that listed a bunch of other .bat shortcuts to help a user get started, when I was eleven years old :P
@Alexander_Sannikov2 ай бұрын
Not sure what kind of woes you're referring to when you're configuring kde plasma. All settings that live in your user home directory are configured in nixos exactly the same way how they're configured in every other distro (via the UI or manually). There's home-manager that actually takes care of that and allows you to edit user settings declaratively as well, but I really advice against using it for beginners, because it's just too much. So you should absolutely be able to change your kde plasma wallpapers via the right click config UI of kde plasma, you should not have to configure anything in the configuration.nix for that.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I'll have to re-watch as I don't recall implying that kde plasma couldn't be configured. I meant to imply that most configurations could not be configured in .config but instead had to be configured from the nix directory and they're seemingly not labeled as would be expected on most any other districts. I recommend NixOS to anyone looking to learn that has the self drive required to do what reading is required to learn. As with anything. Gotta want it.
@Alexander_Sannikov2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 no, my point is that you CAN configure kde plasma and most other packages in ~/.config via their GUI and not via configuration.nix. Everything in your home directory can be configured the way you're used to. There are some plasma configuration options that you can access from configuration.nix, but you don't have to use that at all. All user configuration options are available with home-manager, but you definitely don't need that early on.
@RobertFletcherOBE2 ай бұрын
NixOS is not for new users, thats a fucking terrible recommendation. It's a great distro, but its not new user compatible.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Anything is new users compatible if one is wiling to read. Unless of course one cannot read, at which point I feel they have bigger fish to fry lol
@space_auditsАй бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 *Anything is new users compatible if one is wiling to read* The barrier for entry is steep, but the reward...
@alphaobeisance3594Ай бұрын
preach! lol
@Alexander_Sannikov2 ай бұрын
I recommend you to NOT use home-manager or flakes. Imo it's too much for a beginner. Learn to get comfortable with the base configuration first.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
I hadn't used Nix long enough to get into home manager and flakes but id heard a lot about it :D
@Alexander_Sannikov2 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 the problem is that those tools are really good in theory but they have a very steep learning curve and people will keep recommending them as something you actually need. you don't. you can run nixos perfectly fine without flakes or home-manager. they solve problems that you won't have for a long time.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
When I got into linux, they said that very thing about getting into Arch; I lost a lot of time that could have been saved if I'd of just went for what I wanted out of my system (which I did eventually). I'll be looking forward to revisiting Nix and configuring for my host system. Likely wont happen until the server's all squared away though, and who knows when that'll be haha
@RobFisherUK2 ай бұрын
You can add flakes later. It doesn't change your configuration.nix, it just changes the workflow. Mostly it means if you clone your config from a Git repo you get all the same versions of everything as well as the same config.
@Alexander_Sannikov2 ай бұрын
please download a nix language extension for vs code
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Would have come in handy 🤣
@Matt20102 ай бұрын
Just a suggestion, if coming from windows, don't do dual boot, problems can occur there too, if you must keep the windows installation, for later backup say. Install any distro on an separate hard drive instead. Just would be better for all.
@alphaobeisance35942 ай бұрын
Yes! I'm not much of an advocate for dual booting 🤣. But I have no need for windows. I wish I had solid advice for successfully dual booting but unfortunately I'm unfamiliar with best practices in doing so.
@Matt20102 ай бұрын
@@alphaobeisance3594 So many issues can occur though. Especially when you use windows and update, if MBR is involved will ruin the grub aspect for Linux distros. Thats one thing right there for sure will happen. Its irritating. SO yea, Never dual boot on same hard drive or SSD.