[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":192},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content-philosophy":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":184,"extension":185,"meta":186,"navigation":187,"path":188,"seo":189,"stem":190,"__hash__":191},"content\u002Fphilosophy.md","Philosophy",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":175},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,24,29,37,49,61,65,68,106,110,129,133,152,156,159,165,168],[10,11,13],"h1",{"id":12},"why-this-exists","Why this exists",[15,16,17],"p",{},"I use NixOS daily.",[15,19,20],{},"argentumOS exists so nobody else has to.",[15,22,23],{},"That's the entire pitch, but you scrolled this far, so let's earn the page weight.",[25,26,28],"h2",{"id":27},"the-actual-problem","The actual problem",[15,30,31,32,36],{},"Linux desktops are good. Most of the moving parts work. The kernel is fine, the userland is fine, the apps are mostly fine. What's not fine is the ",[33,34,35],"em",{},"seam between them",". The place where a perfectly reasonable thing you'd like to do — connect to Wi-Fi, change your display resolution, install Spotify — turns into a small research project.",[15,38,39,40,44,45,48],{},"A regular person should not have to know what ",[41,42,43],"code",{},"NetworkManager"," is. Or ",[41,46,47],{},"systemd-resolved",". Or that there are three different audio servers and one of them is being slowly phased out (which one? depends on the month).",[15,50,51,52,55,56,60],{},"The bar isn't ",[33,53,54],{},"\"the OS should be powerful\"",". Linux is already powerful. The bar is ",[57,58,59],"strong",{},"the OS should not require expertise to use",".",[25,62,64],{"id":63},"what-that-actually-means-in-practice","What that actually means in practice",[15,66,67],{},"A few rules we keep coming back to:",[69,70,71,82,88,94,100],"ol",{},[72,73,74,77,78,81],"li",{},[57,75,76],{},"If the fix involves a terminal, the fix is broken."," Routine operations should be clickable. The terminal still exists — power users get to keep it — but no UI flow we ship should ",[33,79,80],{},"require"," it.",[72,83,84,87],{},[57,85,86],{},"Boring on top, interesting underneath."," NixOS is genuinely a great base. Reproducible builds, atomic updates, painless rollbacks. The user doesn't need to know any of this. They get the benefit without the syntax.",[72,89,90,93],{},[57,91,92],{},"Opinions, not options."," A settings menu with 400 toggles is a confession that you couldn't decide what the right defaults were. argentumOS picks. You can override if you really want to, but you mostly won't.",[72,95,96,99],{},[57,97,98],{},"Cohesion over comprehensiveness."," Two custom apps that match the rest of the system are worth more than ten apps that all look like they're from different decades.",[72,101,102,105],{},[57,103,104],{},"No save buttons."," This one keeps surprising people. If you can change a thing, the change applies when you change it. The model is \"this is the current state,\" not \"this is the state I'm thinking about.\"",[25,107,109],{"id":108},"who-this-is-for","Who this is for",[111,112,113,116,119,122],"ul",{},[72,114,115],{},"People who tried Linux once, got tired, and went back to macOS or Windows.",[72,117,118],{},"People who currently use Linux but spend two hours a month yak-shaving instead of doing the thing they meant to do.",[72,120,121],{},"People who installed Linux on a parent's laptop and now do tech support every Sunday.",[72,123,124,125,128],{},"Anyone who'd like ",[33,126,127],{},"this"," particular computer to be the one that stops being a project.",[25,130,132],{"id":131},"who-this-is-not-for","Who this is not for",[111,134,135,142,149],{},[72,136,137,138,141],{},"People who enjoy ",[41,139,140],{},"nix-env"," as a hobby. (Hi! We see you. You're already happy. Stay there.)",[72,143,144,145,148],{},"People whose preferred desktop is ",[33,146,147],{},"\"whatever I configure across 47 dotfiles in a public GitHub repo.\""," Cinnamon is going to feel quite plain. By design.",[72,150,151],{},"People who consider it a personality trait that their laptop runs five-year-old GTK 2 apps in a hand-rolled WM. We respect the craft. We are not the OS for it.",[25,153,155],{"id":154},"the-honest-part","The honest part",[15,157,158],{},"This is one person's frustration, turned into a project. The README's last line says it best:",[160,161,162],"blockquote",{},[15,163,164],{},"I use NixOS daily. argentumOS exists so nobody else has to. xoxo Celestia",[15,166,167],{},"Everything past that is just engineering.",[15,169,170],{},[171,172,174],"a",{"href":173},"\u002Finstall","Install it →",{"title":176,"searchDepth":177,"depth":177,"links":178},"",2,[179,180,181,182,183],{"id":27,"depth":177,"text":28},{"id":63,"depth":177,"text":64},{"id":108,"depth":177,"text":109},{"id":131,"depth":177,"text":132},{"id":154,"depth":177,"text":155},"Why argentumOS exists. Short answer — NixOS daily, and an unwillingness to inflict that on anyone else.","md",{},true,"\u002Fphilosophy",{"title":5,"description":184},"philosophy","HRjDtx3hdJB3ec0KE3gRKOriHtBLDvXgUGyaqvkaGlc",1779386732033]