I’ll wait for the cancer to eventually kill me while walking in the woods. I’ll leave it written that you offered yourself to go find my body and carry it to the cemetery.

So what?

Should they support X11 forever despite the fact that even the maintainers of X11 are barely maintaining X11?

Are they forcing you to do anything?

A piece of software using another piece of software does not mean forcing anything on anyone.

Moreover, KDE runs on X11 and I don’t know of any distribution which does not provide Xorg in their repositories.

Common sense now, that is thousands of years after they were written.

I do not disagree with either of you, I am not christian but I mostly appreciate and abide by the ten commandments. I doubt I would if our morals were not forged over those commandments over the past 2000 years.

Works on my desktop, much better than X. What problems do you have with wayland?

Forced by who exactly?

Yes.

You’re welcome to work on maintaining something more functional, rather than criticize someone who just died for no real reason.

For every bug the AI does not find and I have to spend 1 hour to realize the AI is not able to find and then spend 2 hours to identify myself, there are 10 bugs the AI finds in a couple minutes.

I can gladly spend the extra time when it doesn’t work.

Still got an X201 somewhere. That thing learned me Linux, got me through school and found me a good job at a time when all I had was a backpack and that computer.

Some day I shall switch it on and update it.

The salary itself is a decent one. Quite above the average. Either way it is what I can offer.

I didn’t say it’s difficult to find workers: found plenty good workers for about half that salary.

I did not start interviews yet, I’m confident I will find someone.

Two hour commute is quite a lot. Can you not change job?

TBF I am offering 40k to hire someone who should do frontend, backend, GPU shader optimization, database design optimization and API design.

I have been told this requires a full team of experts. I am not a software engineer, I took the time to study and this is what I’ve been doing the past 4 years. This person will earn more than I do.

That is probably one of the things the Bible would talk about if Jesus was born in our times.

Is corruption not common in your country?

Oh, thanks! Didn’t know that

I guess depending on your interpretation of without it could either be “cat” or “a”.

Fair, but in general I find it way more useful to use cat for piping.

In most cases I’ll do something like

cat file | program
cat file | program | grep
cat file | program | grep | cut

This gets more complicated if the file is at the end of the command.

Thank you, you reassured me quite a bit. I’ll have a good read of the manual.

It is not really a build server, it’s a compute server. I’ll have users installing hundreds of different software packages, most of them using incompatible libraries and thus I was thinking of using Nix. Alternatives would be LMOD, which however requires the administrator to install very single piece of software, which… We don’t really have a dedicated system administrator and I don’t really want to go through the compilation instructions of every single piece of software we use. Alternatively everyone could compile their own software or install it through something like conda, but that eats up a lot of storage space since every library would be duplicated across users.

Hello, thank you for the in depth explanation! I am not very familiar with nix, and yes I’m talking about the package manager. I have installed NixOs recently to toy around with it and see whether it could be a good solution to certain problems we have. I have determined that NixOs itself is not mature enough for what we need, but I do see value in the nix package manager that other solutions do not offer.

Regarding the 4 points you raise

1. I’m not too worried about hash squatting, I guess there’s no way around it, but other ways of managing packages have way worse flaws than that.
2. I do want my users to be able to build packages. In most cases I imagine we’ll use pre built packages, but often packages available are not optimized for certain architectures.
3. How does the nix sandbox work? Just so I know what I’m working with. Do you know where I can read about it?
4. Does root actively run installed packages at any point? If that is the case I’d be a bit wary to use nix for this purpose.