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Obligatory Bugs Bunny reaction

As someone who has had to grind through heaps of logs over the years, from systems in various timezones, from products that disagreed on the 'best' datetime format, I've become a fan of adopting ISO 8601 as much as possible. For personal systems such as a laptop, that's a different story. But if I'm spinning up an EC2 instance in us-west-2 or a VM in Central Europe, I avoid the whole "err, what TZ is this in, or should even be in?" decision-making process and just run with WHO CARES IT'S SET TO UTC NOW LET'S MOVE ON ALREADY 😀

And not that anyone here is likely to care, but here's a quick shout out to lnav - The Logfile Navigator for grinding on system logs (for systems where something like Prometheus or whatever hasn't been proactively set up).

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.

Fwiw, it can be helpful to call out the date for such changes. Preferably in YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).

While it's helpful to link to an off-site timezone converter tool (thanks for that, btw), "today" can be a different date, depending on where in the world you are. For example, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

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.

"Two drunk buddies holding one another up"

I learned it long ago as "catenate".

checks Google

Yep, seems to fit.