flashgnash

This is one of the reasons I love nix. Most of the time if I break it I just roll back, if I really fuck it up I just reinstall, rebuild my config and I'm back

I am capable of running updates myself and I'd rather choose when they happen

Also, Nvidia

I do the same with nix, unless I'm fucking with the bootloader I'll do risky updates because I can always just boot a previous generation

Not everyone has that luxury though

If it's actually possible when my Chromecast stops being usable I'm putting Linux on it and using it to run some light weight projects (someone mentioned you can Linux them)

And this is why you don't update your system while in the middle of something you need it for

On nixos i managed to uninstall nix (package manager), remove my user account, git, ls, WiFi drivers and basically everything else

I can't remember how I rescued it now but managed to get it back without a reinstall

That's awesome if they're implementing it.

My Google home and Chromecast at the moment are necessary evils because when I sit down to watch something I don't want to have to worry about whether it'll work with x or y, whether I'm getting good bitrate etc

Would however be really cool if I was able to cast my screen, cast YouTube etc from my Linux laptop

Have been able to do it in the past using chrome but I already need to keep two browsers installed don't want a third

AppImage, build from source, or don't bother

Do they not just... test the blood before they use it anyway? You'd think they'd want to do that regardless

Imagine how much more convenient the world would be if the Chromecast protocol was open source

Bear in mind most tiling wms don't come with much installed by default, you'll need a bar and a launcher at least