Jacob
net user
Another nice-to-have is KDE Connect, it connects your desktop with your phone to sync notifications, send files, control media playback, use as remote input, share clipboard, send commands, and more
BONUS: here’s some command-line toys that are not useful or necessary, but are just real fun to take a look at especially if you’re new to linux:
- cmatrix (does the matrix code rain thing)
- cowsay (ascii cow with speech bubble)
- sl (steam locomotive in your terminal)
- cbonsai (generate bonsai tree)
- neofetch (this one is actually very useful and will print system information in an aesthetically pleasing way)
Here’s some creative software that replace the functionalities of Adobe software & more.
- photo editing: GIMP
- vector images: Inkscape
- drawing/painting: Krita (GIMP also fine for this)
- video editing: kdenlive
- 3d modelling, animating, etc.: Blender
- audio editing: Tenacity (Audacity fork made after the buyout without telemetry)
- DAW: LMMS
- media player: VLC or mpv
if there’s any other specific software you’re looking for a FOSS alternative to, don’t hesitate to ask. You always have more options on Linux than you’d think.
stonetoss is a nazi
NixOS has snapshots built in as well but I’ve never had to actually use them to recover anything because Nix packages are built in isolation from one another, and their dependencies are declared, so packages can’t break each other when installing or upgrading them.
NixOS is also an immutable distro, which prevents accidental bad changes to the system. Tumbleweed is very friendly and stable compared to many other distros out there, but it’s still vulnerable to accidental breakage in the same ways most other distros are. I think the cherry on top for the average joe using Nix compared to OpenSUSE, however, is just the fact that the Nixpkgs repository absolutely dwarfs OpenSUSE’s.
Luckily, if you prefer to stick with whatever distro you’re running already, but want the power of the Nix package manager, you can get the best of both worlds and install just Nix (without NixOS) on any distro.