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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I’m using Bluefin right now, but I was using bazzite before that. I’d say the biggest benefit is that it’s hard to break permanently. Sure, you can still mess up your home directory pretty bad, but system level stuff is nice and stable. The biggest problem is compatability and software instalation. Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox are nowhere near as good as the documentation makes them out to be. I’d suggest making sure you select a distribution with Nix pre-installed so it’s still possible to install stuff.

    (Edit: There is apparently a workaround for the following issue, though I have not tried if yet.) Just be aware that some things are just plain impossible with atomic distos, and you can’t change it. Like the login screen. You can’t change that at all, whether it’s the background or the default zoom level. It’s part of the system packages and can’t be fixed.



  • I went straight from Processing to Rust. You’d be surprised by just how many skills transfer over! I’ve found that it’s actually easier than other programming languages, aside from doing anything visual. I haven’t figured out how to do the same kind of graphics stuff as i could in processing just yet.

    As for use cases? Processing is a learning tool, and it’s great for teaching as well. You can make some pretty great animations using it, and a lot of YouTubers use it internally to animate their math videos.