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Yeah, it really isn’t for everyone. The advantagees it provides is mostly for developers and companies. If you’re a company, managing a NixOS fork is useful, so all users of the system are on the same page always.
Otherwise the package manager itself can be used on its own. It’s neat being able to use packages from basically any distro without even needing to use a VM.
Nix is daunting indeed, but cool for those who want such tooling
I’d recommend https://typst.app/. Super easy to structure text like LaTeX and 100 times easier to use :)
Not entirely agreeing, but there are some things that are not quite there yet. For me it’s mostly:
Otherwise I don’t really have complaints. If anything LaTeX was the one thing setting me back (and don’t even get me started on Word).
There are official ones and there’s also https://github.com/qjcg/awesome-typst
I took one of those and easily adjusted it to my needs. It’s so easy and intuitive! And fast!!!
Typst is awesome and sooo fast! I literally ported my thesis mid-way to it and haven’t looked back since. Love it all the way.
Popcorn time
If you’re not a techy person/power user, I would recommend staying with Kubuntu/Xubuntu (flavors of Ubuntu, that seem familiar to Windows users), or a more loved variant Linux Mint. You’ll have everything you need there, and your gaming will do just fine using Steam thanks to Proton. My first time (~2014) I went with Ubuntu, since it has an easy to use installer (like most distributions), with relatively sane default settings. Nowadays I would recommend Linux Mint or anything Debian based for the stability.
Why is this 3 year old post still being shown on my front page. Even in this community’s Frontpage somehow…
As already mentioned, poetry (python-poetry) is the best thing I know regarding package management for projects. It’s quite easy to setup and use, and I use it together with pyenv.
If your problem lies on your locally installed packages, then I think you’re basically on your own manually searching for packages you don’t use. There’s not really a way for pip/python to know which packages are relevant or not (at least not that I know of), and if your problem is just about a single environment, then just delete the environment and start anew.
Pop!_OS
I’m more of a
bottom, if you know what I mean.