Shareni

Does your company have a serious IT department that manage devices?

If yes, then you'll need to do whatever they say, and be ready to be told that's not happening.

If not, I'd suggest a stable distro, encrypt the disk, and use flatpak/nix to install fresh packages. Fedora could work, but I've had bad luck with it, and wouldn't want to risk my device crapping out because of an update.

The rest is really going to depend on your work and your it department.

Separate your system and user lists. Use home-manager for example for your user packages. I think separating those configs is the official recommendation.

As for the rest, I'm using nix on MX because of declarative package management. Screw going back to imperative and having to remember what packages to install. If it's something I use often it goes on a list, if I don't nix shell comes to the rescue.

I'd rather mess around with dev envs for nix than distrobox.

Damn you broke my brain for a second there. I thought you meant that nixos replaced k8s, and was wondering what the hell are you talking about.

Zerowriter Ink should get up to a week of battery life

ESP strikes again...

1. Meaning there's no obvious glowing button to upgrade, like on every stable distro I've used. By realising fedora got a new release 2 months ago, asking why the hell am I still on the previous one, and going to the homepage.
2. How is needing to run arbitrary code you copy-pasted less hassle?
3. Your opinion on it doesn't matter, completely axing the previous default without a transitional period is neither hassle-free nor inspiring confidence. Also, that config was anything but minimalist...

If you're a developer and you don't know how to deploy to Linux servers you're useless.

Welp, found your red flag

It's the only distro I've dropped because the upgrade was

1. Hidden and I had to accidentally open its homepage to find out
2. Instructions came with lines you needed to execute before first upgrading
3. Completely dropped gnome, and removed all previous customisation

Worst upgrade experience ever...

Nix > distrobox for this scenario

Hell no, Emacs and nvim UX is far superior. I won't ever go back to clicking.

DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that's a superior format.

Both look really cheap, and are badly designed, especially when compared to lotr.

For example look at the angles on the chest.

Boromir's armour is angled to deflect incoming strikes. So if someone tries to stab him in the chest, the strike will slide off. It makes sense, and is the basis of good, functional armour throughout history.

Now look at these other two. You can aim for the heart, miss and hit the ribs, and the tip will still slide and go under the pec. It directs all strikes towards your heart instead of away from it.

That really depends on what you're doing. It's only really useful when you're regularly SSH-ing into other machines for work. Otherwise you're wasting time every day so that you might save a second once every few years.