It was an installation to two different PCs. I don’t think it has to do with NixOS rather than the installer software.

When I looked around on the web for solutions I found these tricks on a bug report, so at the time it had already been reported.

I agree. The whole situation went completely different in my head, tbh. I’ve tried to get my 65 year old step mom to switch. If she does eventually, I’d set her up with what she needs and give her a run-down.

I was thinking more along the lines of an “up a creek without a paddle” situation where you have the local Linux buff put it on and then start messing with stuff on your own.

See, that’d make more sense to me. In my mind I was seeing someone just installing Linux and poof, that’s it, you’re on your own.

I should change my statement then; just installing Linux for someone is a bad idea. Stepping them through the small basics as you go is a good idea.

Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.

If you can’t do the easiest part of Linux you’re going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.

Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.

The way the post is stated, my brain went, “here’s your PC with Linux on it, bye.”

If it fails again, try these two tricks:

1. Install without swap and create a swap manually later.
2. When the installer gets to creating the swap, which iirc is about 49%, spam swapoff in your terminal.

I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.

You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it’d be well worth the time invested.

I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you’re looking at. Which honestly doesn’t take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I’d say a month or so learning time).

Ahhh, I see. There should be others that have run into the same issues you have. Don’t give up! I’m sure you’ll run across something that works.

Linux is a great community to be in. I will say that before it rose in gaming popularity, there was a lot of gatekeeping, though. But in the end, 99% of Linux users are just people that go, “I KNOW this can work, and I won’t stop until either I break my system or I figure out how it works.”

This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.

I’d love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that’s completely open source, but I’ve tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that’s why I’m working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.

Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.

Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I’m currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I’m happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.

I’d take it home and raise it as my own and name it Billy for the billion I gave up for it. I’d give it snuggles daily and be happy, knowing that no amount of money is going to solve whatever the fuck is wrong with me and the world we live in.

Hm, well it looks like others have been putting out some good troubleshooting tips for the controller. Linux should have kernel modules to deal with every controller and it’s wireless. I know my Dualsense works wirelessly out of the box with everything because of the hid_playstation module

Sleep and hibernation is a well known common issue. I feel like its more hardware related than software, as some people have no issue and some need to do a little tinkering to get it to work. I know my PC will hibernate but not sleep. Or vice versa. I can never remember because I don’t like my PC going to sleep on principle. I haven’t done any troubleshooting because I don’t use it anyway. I just know there are a ton of fixes floating around on the web for you to try.

Flickering and visual glitches is something I used to have. I used to get weird diagonal lines across my screen when certain colors would be in a certain position. There’s a few things that could do this. First, if you’re using an Nvidia card, be sure to use proprietary drivers on Linux install rather than Nouveau. Nouveau is getting better, but still isn’t quite ready for gaming imo.

Second, you could try another video output. I fixed my diagonal lines by switching from Display Port to HDMI. My friend suggested it and I was sure it wouldn’t work, but to my surprise it did. Third, if you’re using Wayland you could try to switch to X11 (or vice versa if you’re using X11).

Hmmm… that’s strange. Afaik, Xbox controllers should be very well supported out of the box in most distros.

Ahhhh, I see. I did a bit of reading out of curiousity. You’re looking to have it work wirelessly. Hmm. I see a forum post troubleshooting the same thing recommending a package called xpadneo. There’s a github page for it here and it seems to have some package maintainers in a handful of distros (you can use the manual method if your distro isn’t listed).

I checked it on the AUR, the most up to date maintained package was from last December, so the app seems fairly up to date(ish). If you want to see the forum post I was talking about its this one.

Good luck, hope you get it working.

Fedora is still good for now, but that’s the same for any distro. Any dev can pull shady shit. I really want to check out Nobara, which is Fedora based and designed for gaming. I believe it’s developed and maintained by GloriousEggroll, who we all know from GE-Proton.

But I’m too happy with vanilla Arch and NixOS.

Yeah, it’s a good way to do it. I still rather use external. That way if anything corrupts my internal drives or my GPU plug lights on fire (like the horror stories I’ve been hearing about some of the newer GPUs) then at least my personal files are saved and completely separate.

As a bonus, I have it in a fireproof safe. Hopefully its insulated enough where it won’t heat the drive up too much if I ever had a fire in my apartment.

I’m poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I’d need it all my life. I guess in his defense I’m mid 30’s now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?

My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can’t even afford to get finished. It’s been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I’m still waiting… Not to mention I’ve been laid off…

So yeah, I’m just as broke as most of my generation, lol.

Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.

I know this is days later, but having your personal, irreplaceable files backed up to external is just going to be a great practice to keep anyway. If your OS is your home, your external is your homeowner’s insurance. Periodically update your backups. Timeshift is a great restore tool, but you should not rely solely on it.

I love it as a terminal to use to run background processes when I need them. For example, I use it for lowfi, a CLI app that plays lo-fi in your terminal. I can get into Kitty just as fast with Rofi.

Alt-Space, “kit”, and enter. Boom. Its up in the same amount of time it would have taken me to move my hand to F12. Then I do my updates, grabbing packages, running my file manager, etc.

A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.

I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.

Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.

Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.

I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.