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  • Cheers. I think I can get that working for pulling up alacritty or wezterm with awesome or leftwm with keybinds ( just changing what’s being executed when using keybinds).

    Is there a way to get this running through the applications symlink? I know I could symlink the location from nix-profile to applications using
    ln -s /home/$USER/.nix-profile/share/applications/* /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/
    But, is there a way to run nixGL from the symlink without running the command through the terminal first?

    Credit: Chris Titus Tech for his intro to the nix package manager. That’s where I found the symlink command https://christitus.com/nix-package-manager/

    Edit:
    I use rofi as my app launcher where I could use drun to execute alacritty or wezterm using nixGL but would really appreciate if I could just select the app from the rofi menu to execute directly without specifying the extra config param each time







  • I’ve currently been running tumbleweed for the past 2 years, has been pretty solid.

    I’ve tried out a couple distros and my takeaways are if you want stability, go with an LTS (leap, rocky, alma, devuan etc) and if you want newer packages on top of that you could use something like nixpkgs or build from source for the packages that aren’t there yet.

    If you want the latest packages/you do gaming or your hardware is pretty new, a rolling release like arch/artix is probably your best bet.

    I just prefer tumbleweed as it comes with some useful stuff preinstalled out of the box. For instance, if I’ve ever had a bad update I’ve always used snapper to roll back as its preconfigured when you use btrfs