Let’s not be hasty.

Surely free-range, organic, gluten-free sand would be the bestest source material ever.

Whoops, should have noticed your endorsement of syncthing before posting a comment mentioning this.

While Obsidian does save to individual files, the Markdown they use seems to be a superset of everyday Markdown. Eg, being able to use callouts (eg, Note, Warning, Info, etc) and embedded linking of notes.

The automatic backlinks are fantastic. And I’ve discovered that if I rename a note, all links to that note get updated as well. So no need to worry about orphaning pages.

I’ve added a handful of plugins as well. Off the top of my head, one is a dynamic table of contents (for that page), another helps to compose/edit Markdown tables.

Also a big fan of Obsidian!

For syncing, one option is to use syncthing.

I know someone (whose geek creds are admittedly well beyond mine) who is also a fan. He uses GitHub to sync his notes.

It might depends on the AI.

I can’t speak for Bard, but ChatGPT’s data isn’t any more recent than 2021. As it often reminds me.

Kiwi’s academic thesis put up for sale without his knowledge

TBH for many years it’s felt like most accounts (or at least the ones that bubbled up into my feed) were angry people venting about whatever. Like, the angrier they were, the more engagement they were hoping for. That was a surefire way for me to at least move on to someone else, or to just close the app. Don’t need anyone harshing my mellow. The shouty people can go find a wall to yell at.

I barely get on these days. And I don’t doubt that it’s gotten worse.

Negative. This is Maya:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription

Yeah, I’ve dabbled with package searches and installs as you’ve described. Basically the intro to Nix.

For the importing of RPM or DEB packages, source would be great if it weren’t a commercial product :) Just going from memory, it was Maya.

I’ve been using Manjaro for the last 2 years, it I’ll admit to finding NixOS interesting.

A couple of areas I have yet researched, though:

1. Is there a UI for the package manager?

I realize that Nix is really powerful, and have even installed it and tinkered a bit with it. But it would be nice to be able to have a UI to quickly search and install packages of interest, and leave the CLI for the more nuanced package activities.

I’ve got quite a few years of experience using yum and apt. The former, about 20 years now. I use pacman mainly to do updates, and yay to install packages pacman doesn’t know about. It even in Manjaro, sometimes it’s just more convenient to use the UI package manager.

Learning my way around Nix… well, were back to the problem of infrequency. Use it once a week, and only to do the one thing, then everything else is back to googling. If there was a UI package manager to use most times, leaving the CLI for the more nuanced activities, then…

2. Is there a tool for adapting/installing RPM or DEB packages?

I’ve had occasion to install something on Manjaro which was only available as a set of RPMs (try/buy graphics software). I managed to get there eventually, thanks to Google.

Reminds me of the X-windows logo