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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux (tesk.page)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations.

I beg you, please keep writing banger posts like fireborn’s I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back series and their interluding post. We need more people with disabilities to keep reminding developers that you exist and your conditions and disabilities are a spectrum and not absolute.

TheEvilSkeleton is a pretty big GNOME developer whom I'm pretty sure I've bumped into before.

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does NixOs have a set of good documentation yet, or is it still "just read these 6 different articles/ebooks, but dont listen do the what the 3rd book talks about in its second half, except for chapter 7. Do chapter 7, but how guide 4 describes it. Then you should have a default config and everything will be perfect."

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Having learned Nix recently and still not being great at it, writing your personal config is relatively easy. The website has a search feature for options you can use by default, so it's pretty straightforward. Just search for relevant keywords and set the options you like.

If you want to package software for nixpkgs, define custom options, or anything else that's going to require custom Nix, it's... Better than you make it sound but not great. I only read one guide, and it wasn't great, but it covered the basics well enough. From there, I managed to figure out what I've needed so far just from the official documentation for the Nix language. It's not everything it could be, but it's not too bad.

If you wanna really get into the thick of it and extensively write Nix for some detailed purpose, you might run into some more problems. I still don't think it'd be as bad as you make it sound, but you probably won't be thrilled, either.