Months ago, some distributions accidentally removed cryfs and encfs from Vaults dependencies (temporarily). And some distributions are removing them intentionally from their package repositories (at least, for the time being). It might be a…
KDE Ni! OS is a custom flavour (configuration, not a separate distribution) of NixOS that showcases KDE software. It builds on NixOS with the aim to reimplement the same features other popular immutable distributions have, while providing a…
KDE Ni! OS is a custom flavour (configuration, not a separate distribution) of NixOS that showcases KDE software. It builds on NixOS with the aim to reimplement the same features other popular immutable distributions have, while providing a…
KDE Ni! OS is a custom flavour (configuration, not a separate distribution) of NixOS that showcases KDE software. It builds on NixOS with the aim to reimplement the same features other popular immutable distributions have, while providing a…
My initial post on Ni! OS gained more interest than I expected. Any time I jokingly do something, people react to it more than when I do something serious. :) As a reminder, KDE Ni! OS is not a distribution, but a configuration for NixOS th…
Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development and artwork section, on 11 December 2025 At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE), there were several talks about immutable Linux distributions born inside KDE. The f…
Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development and artwork section, on 19 July 2025 KDE’s Gitlab setup has a branch naming rule that I always forget about – branch names should start with work/ if you want the server to allow you to rebase
Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Plasma section, on 8 June 2024 I’m a heavy user of Firefox profiles. Apart from using different profiles for different activities, I also have a few extra profiles that all run in the Default
Published by Ivan Čukić in the Prog C++ section, on 2 April 2022 I’ve been revamping my Neovim configuration (more on that some other time). I used to have a fuzzy searcher of Qt and C++ docs in Vim which would open the thing I searched for…
Published by Ivan Čukić in the Prog C++ section, on 15 March 2019 I’ve been playing around with type meta-tagging for my Voy reactive streams library (more on that some other time) and realized how useful it is to be able to check whether a…
Published by Ivan Čukić in the Prog C++ section, on 19 February 2019 There are only a few things more fun in this world than doing template meta-programming (TMP) and reading all those long poems that the compiler writes out when we make ev…
Published by Ivan Čukić in the Prog C++ section, on 3 June 2018 I was considering to make the title of the post “STL algorithms considered harmful” to test my click-bait creation skills, but I decided it is better to aim for the audience in…