Window -> Mint -> Mint Debian -> Arch -> NixOS (not complete yet)

I am incredibly happy with NixOS, I love having my entire OS and software configuration in a GIT repo, commits and comments included.

Dan Abnett. Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Bequin. I understand that the setting doesn’t necessarily appeal to everyone, but the way he writes prose is beautiful in my opinion. And he writes excellent characters.

• Bitwarden: I could host it myself, but it’s better if it is secretly elsewhere in case I need up…
• Backblaze: backups from my server (to which everything else will soon backup to)
• Spotify: it’s convenient
• GPhotos: until I’m done migrating to Immich locally
• PIA: yarr, and also avoiding region stuff

I really liked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVXJ-TIv3Y - step by step, with examples and great explanations. Warning: it’s long, but I watched it in one session.

Actually that is exactly what I’m looking to do for my upcoming home server - configure and define everything via NixOS so that I can almost instantly reprovision it should I have to (restore from backup on hardware issues, recover from borked software upgrades, etc).

Setting up solid backups is important to me, so I plan to bake the full setup into the configuration. That allows me to test everything in a VM first and then apply it all with a simple GIT fetch and rebuild once I commit to hardware.

It’s aspirational so far, but the more I read the more sense it makes to me. My own desktop won’t be far behind if all of that works…

I’m playing A Plague Tale: Innocence for the first time – really enjoying the medieval flair and great graphics, though it is definitely a linear game (not my usual cup of tea, but exceptions obviously apply).

I’ll be playing Baldur’s Gate 3 as soon as my COOP friends have time for it… it is installed and ready to go! Very much looking forward to this.

All of them running great on Linux too, which is just amazing.

Wheel of Time would be amazing, unlike the show.

Sorry for the maybe stupid question, but - once I get the required MESA upgrade, how can I verify and test this? Is it as simple as checking whether for example Cyberpunk 2077 now allows me to enable it out does it require compatible games/updates to them?

Sounds like great progress though!

Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!