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diff --git a/source/00_content/articles/2018-06-23_nixos_gpu_assorted_topics.md b/source/00_content/articles/2018-06-23_nixos_gpu_assorted_topics.md index 6c4c09e..b7b2606 100644 --- a/source/00_content/articles/2018-06-23_nixos_gpu_assorted_topics.md +++ b/source/00_content/articles/2018-06-23_nixos_gpu_assorted_topics.md @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Note that the `nix-shell` based example presented above is only a small subset o NixOS is the first destribution I am truly excited for since my initial stint of distro-hopping when I first got into Linux a decade ago. Its declarative package manager and configuration model is true innovation and one of those rare things where you already know that you will never go back to the old way of doing things after barely catching a climpse of it. Sure, other distros can be nice and I greatly enjoyed my nights of compiling Gentoo as well as years spent tinkering with my ArchLinux systems but NixOS offers something truely distinct and incredibly useful. At first I thought about using the Nix and Scheme based [GuixSD](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/) distribution instead but I got used to the Nix language quickly and do not think that the switch to Guile Scheme as the configuration language adds enough to offset having to deal with GNU's free software fundamentalism[^5]. -Of course I was not satisfied merely porting my workflows onto a new superior distribution but also had to switch from [i3](https://i3wm.org/) to [XMonad](https://xmonad.org/) in the same breath. By streamlining my tiling window setup on top of this Haskell-based window manager my setup has reached a new level of minimalsim. Layouts are now restricted to either fullscreen, tabbed or simple side by side tiling and everything is controlled using [Rofi](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi) instances and keybindings. My constant need of checking battery level, fan speed and system performance was fixed by removing all bars and showing only minimally styled windows. And due to the reproducibility[^6] of NixOS the interested reader can check out the full system herself if he so desires ! :-) See the [home-manager](https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/) based user [environment](https://github.com/KnairdA/nixos_home) or specifically the [XMonad config](https://github.com/KnairdA/nixos_home/blob/master/gui/conf/xmonad.hs) for further details. +Of course I was not satisfied merely porting my workflows onto a new superior distribution but also had to switch from [i3](https://i3wm.org/) to [XMonad](https://xmonad.org/) in the same breath. By streamlining my tiling window setup on top of this Haskell-based window manager my setup has reached a new level of minimalism. Layouts are now restricted to either fullscreen, tabbed or simple side by side tiling and everything is controlled using [Rofi](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi) instances and keybindings. My constant need of checking battery level, fan speed and system performance was fixed by removing all bars and showing only minimally styled windows. And due to the reproducibility[^6] of NixOS the interested reader can check out the full system herself if he so desires ! :-) See the [home-manager](https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/) based user [environment](https://github.com/KnairdA/nixos_home) or specifically the [XMonad config](https://github.com/KnairdA/nixos_home/blob/master/gui/conf/xmonad.hs) for further details. After getting settled in this new working environment I finally was out of distractions and moved on to my original wish of familiarizing myself with delegating non-graphical work to the GPU. The first presentable result of this undertaking is my minimalistic [fieldplay](https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/) clone [computicle](https://github.com/KnairdA/computicle). |