[GoLUG] September meeting 9/6/2023

[o1bigtenor]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 9:50 AM Barry Fishman <barry at ecubist.org> wrote:
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> On 2023-08-28 02:10:32 -04, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Barry Fishman,
> >
> > Would you like to do a presentation on whatever your favorite language
> > is these days?
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> I really haven't done much new programming.  I have been mostly working
> on changing my software environment.
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>   o I moved from primarily using an Arch distribution to NixOS.
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>     Arch was getting much slower at moving to new releases of software,
>     and I disliked having such a fragile environment.
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>     I like the fact that with NixOS I can do a drastic change in my
>     system configuration; have an upgrade hard fail or be unbootable;
>     reboot the previous system; make any needed fixes; and when I have
>     what I want, garbage collect away the old broken attempts.
>
>     I can try a new app by installing it in a temporary environment to
>     see if I like it.  If I don't, I can flush it from my system.
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>   o I moved from Gnome-3 to Gnome-4, and from X11 to Wayland.
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Interesting - - - - do you have any idea if Wayland is capable of supporting
a seriously multi-monitor system?
(I can find literally nothing on this in searching.)

TIA