Nice article. Waiting for the upcoming parts.

Blinry did something similar not to lomg ago, maybe it’s interesting for you, too: https://blinry.org/tiny-linux/

Or use booster, it’s imo even faster and easier to configure, then mkinitcpio and dracut.

Oh, yeah that would make sense. Thx

FYI The Windows License is more like $20-$40. The OEM Version costs $40 retail and MSI has probably a better deal. That’s how Microsoft got Windows on nearly every prebuilt PC since the mid 90ies.

I did more or less your idea with kiosk mode. Everything which is not explicitly defined by nix is on tmpfs in my setup. But I don’t play games on this machine, so I can’t say anything to this.

I’ve got the idea from “erase your darlings”: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

The same thing with btrfs: https://hanckmann.com/posts/20230104-nixos-and-erasing-my-darlings/

The whole idea is about impermanence: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

My first own computer was a Pentium II with 300Mhz, 64MB Memory, an Elsa Gladiac Erazor graphics card and a 4GB HDD. I got it around the year 2000, it was a used computer from the company of my parents. Before I got this one I was allowed to play on the 286 and later the 486 which my parents had in their company’s office. My first mobile was a Nokia 6210 and I got it around the year 2001.

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You should learn the basics of VBA, as much as I despise this language, I can tell you as a mechanical engineer myself, that you will stumble over countless excel sheets with VBA from your colleges and it’s good to have at least a rough understanding of what they did. Also it’s unfortunately the automation/macro language of many CAD-Systems (Catia, SolidWorks, Inventor,… to name just a few). Python with jupyter notebooks or julia with weave are also worth taking a look into it. They a both pretty good for calculations + documentation and drawing nice graphs. That’s what most of my collegues do in excel with VBA, but it’s much nicer to do in the two mentioned before.