According to Blue Systems employee Aurélien Gâteau, “Blue Systems does not have a business model, at least for now”.

Nice

I took some similar shots a year ago :)

Digital signatures might be required to prove your age. Then spoofing won’t do the trick.

I hope I’m wrong though.

Yeah, this is kind of on you.

If you spend your money on a “smart” toothbrush, expect it to do “smart” stuff.

Yeah, same to you!

I don’t like having to configure every detail of my computing experience. I like to be able to do so though. And that’s part of what makes me love NixOS. Most things can be enabled with a service.<whatever>.enable = true and it is installed and set up with very sane defaults. Essentially what other maintainers do, only that you had to decide you wanted that service to begin with.

And for boring stuff like networking or whatever, I haven’t made many desicions my self. That just came with the default config from my base install. I brought them with me as I evolved it, and as long as I don’t need anything else, I won’t be changing it either.

But yeah, I very much understand why someone would not want to use NixOS. It is great for those who like it and hell for those who just wants a set and forget system :)

Yeah, you have to define this stuff somewhere. But changing from one to another is simple.

This is my audio setup right now:

  services.pulseaudio.enable = false;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
  };

I will just keep rolling this until it constrains me somehow and then I will revisit it and improve it to fit my needs.

If you like NixOS, this is not a big burden really. Otherwise you are probably better off with some other dist, as you mentioned.

I don’t see it as a big tradeoff, but that’s because I like this way of doing things.

Yeah, it took me a good while to be comfortable. And I am still more or less a noob.

I’d say I don’t fully understand the syntax properly, but I get around. The docs are great if you haven’t checked them.

I have also been spitballing with AI to get input on how to attack new problems in there and I find that really helpful. If you are strongly anti-ai there are some good community chats on Discord, Matrix and elsewhere where people have been really kind and helpful as well.

My recommendation is:

• Start a new system using a single flake
• Add what you need, when you need it
• When it starts feeling unmaintainable, take a step back, stop adding new stuff and figure out how you can refactor your system so that you are back in control

You have to think it is fun for it to be worth it really, but you seem sold on the concept, so I think you’ll get there!

I game on NixOS, ask me anything and I’ll do my best to answer :)

To answer if NixOS is immutable, kind of yes if you want it to be immutable.

It can really be whatever you want it to be. If you:

• Use flakes and
• Keep your config in Git

Your system is pinned and reproducible.

Applying the same config on any other system would result in the exact same setup. All around.

When you want to update, you update the inputs to your flake, rebuild your system and switch into the new build.

If everything is good, you commit the updated flake file and any other system can pull it to update to the exact same config state.

It is magic and cool!

Also, if you want, it can be the complete opposite.

You can switch from the stable channels (new releases bi-annually) to the unstable channel (rolling release) and configure auto-updates.

Now you have a bleeding edge system that updates daily.

It is so cool.

I get that there is a lot of terms and stuff that is unclear, but it’ll all clear up once you get into it :)

But yeah, it is a OS that revolves around config files and kind of “coding” your own system.

If that sounds like fun to you (I love it) give it a try! If that sounds daunting, maybe stick with Bazzite, CachyOS or something easy to use. NixOS is easy to work with once you get it, but so is rocket science I guess.

I am rambling. Give it a try! Or don’t! 😄

I am going to migrate our living room gaming PC, my Raspberry Pi and my server machine to NixOS once I get the chance to.

This is my Linux endgame. I am not going back from here 😄

NixOS is not really a distro like other distros. It is more like a framework of creating the perfect custom distro that fits YOU.

If you’ve read this far, you’re a champ 🙏

Someone explain, please

The profit is the product

They’ll cram AI in there given the chance

Yeah, i get the gist of it.

Its just that I don’t really see a problem with Blender creating an API.

There are 2 options:

1. AI will become awesome and take over the world. In this case I don’t see how Blender would survive regardless of MCP integration status.
2. AI will always be shite, Blender devs has implemented a useless API and got a lot of cash to keep developing Blender.

I don’t see how this is bad, honestly.

Okay, but how bad is that?

It is just an interface, or am i missing something here?

Anthropic has no control over the project.

They sponsored a feature that is still open to anyone to use or not use.

The project is intact for all I can tell?

I hope you’re wrong too!

I believe projects are not all the same. Some projects might be quick to bend the knee, but others would never.

Depends how the Blender team works I guess :)

It is FOSS, so if it takes a turn to the worse I am sure they will be forked quickly 😄

Doesn’t sound that bad, does it?

A lot of open source projects take money from companies to develop their stuff.

It’s not like Blender is forced to integrate AI now.

I think this is a net good.

Great shot!

This is art

Ironically, I do not have the creators name in mine either. But to my defense it is a common template and I didn’t edit it out myself at least.

This sounds like a very sane bit of both approach.

Support plugins so anyone can extend however they like, but integrate the most popular plugins into the software.

I like it.