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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).
The main difference of NixOS to other distros is that you configure your system declaratively. This means that installed system settings (e.g. user accounts, enabled drivers, etc.) programs and potentially also configuration for individual programs is all defined in a single place. The disadvantage of this is that a lot of stuff works differently than on “normal” distros and that it tends to have a rather steep learning curve. Unless you’re prepared to invest a significant amount of time into it, you should not install NixOS.
That being said, the topic is a lot more complex (for example, one can also use the Nix package manager on other distros than NixOS), so if you’re interested, here is some more discussion on the topic:
Seems like a very weird bug, for me the website is in Korean by default 🤔
+1 for transmission. In case you also want to use a VPN, there’s a neat all-in-one docker container that I run on my raspberry pi 4: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
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.
You’re right, Hades is not a very strategic game. There are some synergies between the power-ups, but mostly I just pick the ones that suit my playstyle. I’d also say that the power-ups in Hades are just there to mix it up a bit (and not really a core part of the gameplay loop).
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.