It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.

While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.

And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.

Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.

The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.

So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.

Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.

Please, no…

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

I recommend caddy as a webserver, it’s very powerful, but the config is super simple compared to old school stuff like nginx or apache.

You can use frp to do the same thing a CloudFlare tunnel does without giving them your unencrypted data.

That’s true, but ISPs have logs. And if something happens that makes the police change their mind about enforcing the law, you might be fucked, retroactively.

If you live in an area where you need a VPN to keep your ISP off your ass

Uploading copyrightes material is illegal pretty much everywhere I know of.

Syncthing, runs in background, synchronises everything between machines. Use it on my phone, tablet, NAS, desktop, Steam Deck.

Well, IntelliJ is also plugin based, it’s just that most of the plugins are bundled and enabled by default and maintained by the same set of people as the core IDE, so there’s consistent quality.

You mean one to struggle to rule them all?

I mean, if I didn’t use a correct flag, my next command will probably include -h / --help

Eh… No?

Opening projects, I use multiple languages, so having a single place to open any project, regardless of the IDE, is nice.

You mean the toolbox? I love it! Though I had to live without for a while (just NixOS things) and now I’m trying to get back to the habit of using it; unsuccessfully so far.

Probably not basic user friendly, true, but the upside is that you set it up once and can send files all the time by just placing it in a directory, doesn’t get simpler than that.

Utility-first detractors complain a lot about how verbose this is and, consequently, how ugly. And it is indeed. But you’d forgive it that if it actually solved a problem, which it doesn’t.

Love the tone!

Ah, the creator od std::vector<bool>?

Isn’t the JVM limited to 2 GB or something like that?

Why wouldn’t you?