[evelynsalt]

https://suckless.org/ https://nixos.org/

You only have to configure this once. Don't install too many things. Just what you need. This level of complexity is needed because this is not TempleOS in which all software is made by one person. Most software exists to bridge the Tower of Babel lost in translation scenario.

[madwebness]

Suckless.org is merely a subjective catalog. Not a bad one, but for a tiling Window Manager, which I have to recompile every time I want to change its settings and need to somewhat know C for that - because what if I don't - that hardly sucks less.

NixOS is also a subjective take on packaging, heavily luring people into a functional programming world, where one set of problems is merely replaced by another set of problems. I tried NixOS, so no, thank you. There are better ways to isolate packages and have multiple versions of libraries. The simplest of which that come to mind are things like Flatpak and containers. There's almost 0 usecase for NixOS - it merely replaces one set of problems with another. And forces you to learn something, that does not justify the time it'd take to learn it. I feel like people who built it just wanted to be smart, not create things that are seemingly simple and beautiful (which is what true artists strive for, I think). I learned Vim in two weeks. I gave NixOS the same time and it was almost a waste of it. Not a complete waste, however, because, I recall, I discovered an extremely useful, but unrelated thing (zfs), but I don't remember how come it worked out this way.