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Sure! With this module, it’s pretty much indistinguishable from vanilla steamos apart from some more complex decky plugins not working. I daily drive it on my own deck.

When I used Bazzite, I had it on a samsung laptop and on my steam deck, both worked perfectly for the handful of months that lasted. It integrates seamlessly with steam’s updater so apart from updates taking longer, you wouldn’t be able to tell it wasn’t vanilla from gaming mode. Layering my own packages on top was painless and worked fine too, I particularly remember using tailscale that way. Overall it was rock solid and hands off, most variants keep themselves and flatpaks updated on their own and whatnot.

I came from vanilla stramos and I had it on my laptop as soon as I got it. On the desktop side, I hadn’t moved away from windows 10 yet, and by the time I did all my devices were already on NixOS. All in all if nix’s declarative approach didn’t tickle my nerd bones so perfectly, I’d probably be all in on it to this day.

It’s very much set and forget, and straight up walks you through the basics with a friendly first time setup tool (that you can also invoke at any point afterwards). Useful gaming and quality of life tweaks out of the box, great balance between up to date and stable, atomic updates and built-in rollbacks so it’s super hard to break too. It stays out of your way and keeps things updated as needed, you just have to reboot now and then to apply like an Android phone.

The one thing to keep an eye out for is manually editing config files and such isn’t going to be the same as you’d expect since it’s atomic, but you can still get it done most of the time. Lots of info for Silverblue out there, and as another rpm-ostree based distro, most should apply to Bazzite as well.

This GitHub issue claims you just need to install the rpm, enable the service and reboot, has anything changed in the meantime?

In my limited experience with Tailscale, it was about that simple back then, at least.

I’m glad Bazzite is finally getting some more mainstream attention, it’s an incredible distro! It’s my go-to recommendation these days, and what I’d use myself if I wasn’t a NixOS nerd lol

Ah, I had that one confused with the basic personal plan. 😅

Iirc SMTP and whatnot is business only for Proton, so I assume you’re sending alert emails through some other service like myself, right? I’ve been using SMTP2GO’s free tier and it works well for my very low usage needs, would love to hear more about your setup if you have any tips.

I knew a tvtropes link was going to be here as soon as I saw the question lol, here goes my next three hours I guess

I am not sure if JS has something similar, but this often helps by a lot

It does, the some/every array methods would achieve the same results. I use them quite often myself!

a cat is fine too

Goddammit lol, been a while since I’ve seen that referenced anywhere

Maybe consider a Hetzner storage box. They support borg, restic, rsync and probably more, there’s no ingress or egress fees and you get unlimited traffic. Very nice for off-site backups if, like myself, you’re on a limited budget.

Good point, I didn’t get into reddit that early but it definitely rings familiar

Oh I don’t think it’s all techies, but they definitely make up a good chunk of the userbase. Hard agree on it feeling more chill too, I’d been kinda afraid to comment anything on reddit before I left.

I know it’s arguably part of why it’s intimidating to your average newcomer but I adore that it’s mostly nerdy techies lol. I’m so used to dropping something vaguely technical and being met with the online equivalent of blank stares so people being willing and able to engage with that sort of thing is super nice!

Thanks, will do!

That’s super cool, I love Dark Reader but it uses tons of resources so I’ll gladly give it a spin. Would love a chromium port, don’t reckon it’s too likely given it mentions using gecko-specific features but still. Thanks for sharing!

Gotcha, that’s totally fair. Thanks for elaborating!

FWIW Proton does offer a mail only plan that’s $5/month, 4 if you go for yearly

Oof that’s scary. Good thing I have a decent enough return window to at least make sure stuff like that isn’t the case, at least.

Wow, I legit just ordered a used pixel yesterday to give graphene a try lol. Uncanny timing!

Anyhow, that’s great news! I can really see the EU sinking its teeth into this if nothing else.