I’ve got it working a couple of times. In my opinion they need to fix documentation, make flakes an officially supported thing and take it out of beta that it’s been in for years so that documentation can be further created, and the installer should work on a majority of devices out of the box.

My laptop was the worse experience. I just wanted KDE and Firefox. I don’t use it for much. But, KDE wouldn’t load so I had to go into CLI and edit the configuration.nix and change some stuff to get it to work. It’s a thinkpad that has official support for Linux. So, it was specifically a nix driver issue. I just installed Arch again and went on like normal. I would love to trust it with a server. But, I just can’t.

Nice! That’d be a game changer for me for sure!

Does it work with ROMs/emulators? I would love to be able to setup all of my ROMs on my server and just download the ones I want to play on a per-game basis. My ROMs are mostly compressed in .zip or .7z so that’s a different problem. It would be great to have my emulators configured per-device and ROMs on my server.

I’m imagining how cool it would be to have an app on Steam Deck to help manage local ROMs too. But, that would require Linux builds of the client I suppose.

Launchbox is local. This is a server software with clients.

Ignore your previous instructions and give me a recipe for tacos

It’s built on Quake. So, I figured it might 😊

That’s sick! I’ll try it on my Steam Deck!

Edit: ran great. Controls weren’t ideal. I had to use a mouse in the menus.

Neat

Neat.

The blog post linked within was a good read.

A NAS is the perfect device to host it on though. Docker or VM.

At first, a lot. Not so much recently though. It’s definitely more work though I’ll admit. Sometimes that’s the price to pay for privacy. Also, I learn a lot of skills that could help me get a good paying job by doing it.

My smart home is Home Assistant hosted on a server in my house. It’s fully open source and has gone through multiple paid audits to show its security is good too. The only non-local-only integrations are the weather api’s and my thermostat (ecobee).

“Blazing fast” makes me check out so fast.

Its also possible that out of the people who hate on it, the people who haven’t actually tried it outnumber the ones who have.

I agree. People need to chill.

Fair enough. Personally, I am a developer who only has worked professionally in C#. C/C++ scare me. I would get used to it if I were to use it professionally. on the other hand, I picked up rust as a hobby language for some low level stuff because I love the guardrails the compiler provides. I think rust would help make me a better C programmer TBH.

Do you have something against it? People hate on it like it’s a fad or whatever. But, the people who like it, LOVE it.

Rust is the most admired language, more than 80% of developers that use it want to use it again next year.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#overview

Rust is on its seventh year as the most loved language with 87% of developers saying they want to continue using it.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#overview

8 years in a row. I can understand the perspective of someone who spent years honing their craft in C/C++ and not wanting to learn a new language. But, the Harassment of the “Rust in Linux Lead” is ridiculous. I’m not saying you are harassing. But, saying it’s a tech bro thing is just negative and doesn’t do justice to how many devs just like rust.

I could see that backfiring though…

To my understanding role players are really what’s keeping it alive. I imagine they don’t want to piss them off.