| 2 Aug 2025 |
 K900 | The QML is the least bad part | 10:56:53 |
 emily | well | 11:07:30 |
| emily | fundamentally Calamares is a bad choice for NixOS | 11:07:39 |
| K900 | Honestly | 11:07:45 |
| K900 | No it's fucking no | 11:07:47 |
| K900 | * No it's fucking not | 11:07:47 |
| K900 | We're just holding it SO WRONG | 11:07:51 |
| emily | no I've like | 11:08:00 |
| emily | read the docs | 11:08:02 |
| emily | its model is just not good at what we'd really want | 11:08:08 |
| K900 | 90% of it is genuinely perfectly fine | 11:08:14 |
| K900 | We just need to replace the other 10% with our own shit | 11:08:25 |
| K900 | Which they make easy | 11:08:28 |
| K900 | Unless I'm missing something big | 11:08:39 |
| emily | it can't even do /boot that works properly with disk encryption across both BIOS and UEFI. | 11:08:50 |
| emily | though that's not a super NixOS-y thing | 11:09:01 |
| K900 | That's not possible on legacy boot | 11:09:03 |
| K900 | So don't care | 11:09:09 |
| emily | what? no | 11:09:10 |
| emily | by properly I mean unencrypted | 11:09:16 |
| emily | and surely you mean UEFI | 11:09:26 |
| emily | the reason we install with encrypted /boot on BIOS is that Calamares is too dumb to do anything else unless we make the mount point different for ESPs | 11:09:58 |
| K900 | I mean fully encrypted boot is not possible on legacy | 11:10:00 |
| K900 | Yes but we can just like, do that | 11:10:13 |
| emily | I don't think you understand what I'm saying | 11:10:34 |
| emily | we encrypt more on BIOS for bad reasons because of Calamares being stupid | 11:10:37 |
| K900 | Yes I know | 11:10:41 |
| K900 | But we don't have to do that | 11:10:46 |
| K900 | If we just use a different partition layout | 11:10:54 |
| emily | tbf systemd upstream lightly recommends /efi for ESPs so we could just do that and it would fix it | 11:10:58 |
