I migrated recently and am pretty happy with it. Once you have everything in configuration.nix setup, its like you dont even need to think about your system anymore if you dont want to. Everything just works and will continue to work and can even easily be replicated onto another system in case of hardware failure. Just make sure to keep your /home on a seperate nas/raid/drive and a backup of your configuration and hardware.nix and your golden.
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FOR KARL!
There are a few runtimes which provide quite a few things already (for desktop and system integration) and there are a growing number of modules for other commonly used stuff, example ffmpeg (de/encoding) which other flatpaks can reuse. Also flatpak uses OSTREE to try and prevent duplication.
The more the devs work with it the better their packaging and bundeling is gonna get. At the moment it is new and they have to re-learn some things and not everything might be done in the best way possible, but that will improve with time.
And i think it benefits everyone. Devs and distro maintainers dont need to repackage, test and integrate stuff for all distors and users have stuff that has an almost 100% chance of working out-of-the-box that is also quicker with updates/fixes.
IMO, overall an improvement in comparision to the current state with deb/rpm/pkgs/... for userspace applications.
planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year.
I wonder where all the users are gonna migrate
Yes, its not the "common" way to use it. But i think it works well enough, but just to be save i added some annotations.
90% of blocked bugs
human: developer
ball: bug (report)
dog: (reporting) user
annotations are "spoken/thought/done" by the human.
maybe "OpenSuse tumbleweed" ?
refs.
they wouldn’t mind letting third party apps have access to it
i think they would mind, since their business model is build around selling "metadata data for advertising" ... and sharing the raw data of is not in their interest, since that would allow others to compete with them.
eh ... that plugin is likely easiest to install via your distros package manager ... you dont have to compile it from source
edit: i was actually thinking about a different plugin: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-netload-plugin/start