I’ve recently (in the last week) added my contacts and manage my calendar via nextcloud locally. Davx synchs to my android devices, nextcloud is synched to my haos VM to help me remember bin nights / other appointments. For someone with ASD + ADHD it’s a godsend.

Minimum for me would be 120hz, i’ve been using 120hz since 2012 (12 years… man) and anything less feels like a massive step backwards. My old S10+ and my cheapie laptop feel sluggish in any animated / transmission scenario.

I love me some hyprland, it’s minimal enough to run on my 4gb ram foldable laptop with the same animations I have on my main laptop & desktop.

Wayland x Nvidia aside (on my laptop) it’s the perfect minimal environment for me.

But man, I’ll be able to amend all those TODO items that have been accumulating of the last 12 months and fix all those issues while rebuilding my raid.

I mean that’s only if my GITs aren’t hijacked during the ransomware attack.

And I mean, I’ll probably just push the same config to my server and let it on its merry way again.

Me waiting for solar underground highways.

Tuta (in my eyes) is a step in the right direction, using a client like thunderbird or enigmail and managing PGP yourself would be more secure as the message is decrypted by the recipient and not a company owned server.

https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

https://cldc.org/does-protonmail-snitch/

In addition protonmail do not protect your metadata (from memory), it’s not encrypted in transit.

Protonmail also keep your public and private keys on their servers, it’s PGP however they don’t want the end users to have to manage their own keys. That to me isn’t ideal.

Receiving from another provider you’ll get TLS encryption until it hits protonmail servers but protonmail will then decrypt your email and again encrypt your email using your PGP stored on their servers.

Sending an email from proton to another provider will be encrypted on protonmail servers but that’s where it ends. TLS will take care of the in-transit and again may not be stored securely on the receiving end.

Protonmail isn’t great, their deliberately misleading about the encryption. Many consider protonmail to be a honeypot.

Oh man, that’s when they activate the ad blocker blocker blocker.

You running anything from nix-hardware on your system? I know my laptop has a flake there that installs a few applications & fixes small things like hardware buttons for the ga401: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/asus/zephyrus/ga401/default.nix

I’m running unstable on both machines, with nix-hardware for my laptop only.

Just don’t run X applications 😅

I’ve seen no issues on my setup, might just be luck of the draw? What hyprland build are you running? What issues are you seeing?

Works fine on my laptop (1650 hybrid) and desktop (3070 no iGPU)

Under NixOS on both machines, no xwayland.

  programs.hyprland = {
    enable = true;
    enableNvidiaPatches = true;
  };

Is the basics to get it up and running under NixOS + HomeManager

Sounds like bait but I’ll bite.

Most singleplayer titles work perfectly fine under Linux. Majority of my steam library runs with compatibility toggled in steam.

I’ve got a Switch Pro controller, no issues via Bluetooth or Cable connection. Gives me battery readouts via Dunst

Running Wayland with an NVIDIA GPU in both my systems.

I believe you can disable your Facebook account but still use Messenger, couple of my friends don’t have a profile but can still message.

Depends on where you live, Australia I believe use Messenger more than other applications.

WhatsApp didn’t catch on here outside of the big cities.

Yeah since using NIX for a couple of months now I moved away from KDE, you could customize KDE with home-manager however you would be writing out stacks of home.file lines as KDE is all over the shop when it comes to configuration. IIRC there is a module for KDE to help however it looked like a bigger time sink than I wanted.

For example my hyprpaper config is as such:

home.file."dots/config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf" = {
    text = ''
      preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/1.jpg
      preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/2.jpg
      preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/3.jpg
      preload = ~/nixos/wallpaper/4.jpg
      wallpaper = eDP-1, ~/nixos/wallpaper/1.jpg
    '';
  };

Same can be done for KDE’s config however you’ll run into issues changing settings manually from memory. I’m quite happy with hyprland as there are less moving parts compared to a complete package (gnome / kde), everything that’s installed (probably) has a purpose for my use-case.

That’s why I love Nix, moving my hyprland configuration from my laptop to my desktop was almost seamless. All my keybinds, wallpapers and applications were up and running with a couple of commands.

There are a couple of hardware specific configs for my laptop and desktop but once I split those out it’s smooth sailing.

Being on NIX I’m very jealous of the volumes of documentation for Arch. Found my way to the Arch wiki a few times.

EAC depending on the title works out of the box from what I’ve seen, I don’t have much time these days to play many competitive shooters or games in general but Battlebit and PlanetSide look to work fine through proton.

Mainstream distros are just as easy to use as windows or MacOS.