Not sure why people try to discredit the question. I think it’s a great question and good to have an answer for.

People here are saying that 100ms is not noticeable latency. Believe me that it is very noticeable. When I’m streaming games via local network from PC to my tv, the. delay is ~10ms (10ms is each way so together 20ms) and It’s really easy to notice that when compared to the real thing.

And I’m not sensitive to this. For example I’m not able to tell the difference between different mice. But my friends can distinguish between them even when the difference is a few ms.

So my take would be that it depends. I would not expect Framework 16 to be the greatest gaming PC, but it should be good enough for casual gaming. I’d personally be fine with that delay.

I use git submodules and just have nixpkgs as a submodule of my config. That way I can easily tweak nixpkgs code locally and create new PRs to push upstream.

Updating is then easy because it’s handled by git.

Actually I have 2 submodules for nixpkgs (one for stable and one for unstable).

Downside of this is that the original clone I quite slow, but subsequent updates are speedy.

I saw people pinning to a particular commit via hash too (and then you just have some helper that auto-updates that hash).

I never used channels which have this state outside of config which is not great.

Yeah I know. What I wanted to say is that pinning even without flakes is easy and great.

Flakes experimental status is unfortunate.

They have no sale policy so it won’t be on sale now, but it’s money well spent.

It’s a bit better with a mouse, but the touchpad is manageable. It’s not an action shooter, but you click a lot.

But you don’t need flakes, there are so many ways to solve this problem that don’t require experimental features.

This is so cool. I always had trouble with this aspect of ricing.

I just realized that Nixos is really good for ricing.

You can safely experiment without a fear of breaking the system, forgetting to uninstall something, etc.

I’ll need to experiment with something different from Gnome.

Ah thanks. I’m blind I completely missed the relevant wiki section that shows how to use nix-index.

This is my current derivation if you want to take a look, but I think that it’s correct because I just copy-pasted it from wiki.

I think I just need to figure out which packages to install to provide all required libraries.

Actually there are handheld custom consoles built around the framework main board. So far I’ve seen 2, so it’s probably not something OP uses, still interesting projects.