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by tempoponet 8 days ago
The barrier to entry for tinkering on Linux is so much lower now for anyone with a $20 Claude/Codex plan. What might have been an hours/days of fruitless head-scratching can now be done in minutes while you grab a coffee.

While I haven't tried this yet, I do have a Bazzite box that would be a good fit. I wouldn't treat the rough edges as a deterrent the way we have in the past.

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I've been driving NixOS with Codex and it's simply amazing. I used to regard Nix as a hobbyist thing that I couldn't bother with because it's tedious and complex even though the declarative nature of it is so cool. Now the tedious and complex parts are gone, leaving only the benefits. NixOS is definitely my preferred place to be now because the AI can maintain the declaration tree while me a monkey just say "me want Razer keybind switcher in tray" and it builds one in 10 minutes and writes it into the config so setting up a new computer with it is easy as cake.
Willing to give this a try as the latest Bazzite image wrecked my Sunshine configuration - I wasted last night trying to re-install via FlatPak. With access to kscreen-doctor blocked, and anything else useful on the system, I never got it working.

I much prefer the idea of this where I don't have to worry about resizing the existing screen.