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    Have you tried NixOS? (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 3 months ago by turnipjs@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 1 points 3 months ago

    Yes. And I feel sad because I haven't been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something's missing...

    Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.

    [–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

    I mean, it's like a fucking drug. The learning curve is steep AF but past some point, when it starts making sense, it's just incredible. I'm currently moving my whole setup to NixOS and I'm in love.

    [–] TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    As someone who has never tried Linux, this meme has done more to make me want to give it a try than anything else Linux users have thrown at me so far. The fox is very convincing. I might step into the back of an unmarked van if it asked me to.

    [–] ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

    NixOS is probably a bit more confusing than most Linux distros, but it has a huge amount of advantages too. It has very up to date software and probably never has dependency issues.

    [–] F04118F@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Don't listen to him! Just start using Nix to manage dependencies and dev environments for your projects but keep your OS the same until you are really good at Nix

    [–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, you want to sniff nix first before you mainline nixos.

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, you want to sniff nix

    MMMMH, lice killing cream 🤤🤤
    nix bottle

    [–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I'm more interested in Mint 22

    [–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

    LMNE: Linux Mint Nix Edition

    ...hmm

    [–] shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, it's the most stable yet infuriating experience I've ever had with Linux. I'm currently using it, but I don't know for how much longer...

    [–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    How unstable is the unstable branch exactly?

    [–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    You should say "unstable channel". It's literally just a rolling release that pulls from the nixpkgs master branch. So it's only as stable as it needs to be to pass the Hydra CI tests.

    And if you get to a working version, you can pin that as a Nix flake to avoid anything breaking until the next time you nix flake update.

    [–] shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Definitely more stable than Arch. Plus, you can easily roll back if something breaks, and you can choose which packages should use the unstable branch while keeping the overall system stable, which I find amazing. I don't think I've ever had a breaking update, which I can't say about Arch.

    The problem I have with Nix is that you can effectively forget about running random programs or GitHub projects. You either package everything the Nix way or nothing works. As a developer and someone who often likes to try stuff out, that's really annoying. And Nix, the language, is ass, so is the whole build system. Nobody can convince me otherwise.

    [–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    You can also rollback changes on arch using snapper.

    [–] shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

    It's not really the same thing though, those are filesystem snapshots, not package registry snapshots. Think of Nix generations as blueprints of how to construct your OS and environment, not the files themselves (though those are certainly required). I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but it's a lot more powerful than what basically amounts to a backup.

    [–] vga@sopuli.xyz -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I actually got NixOS after the latest time I tried it. But I also got that I don't want it, Arch is much simpler in all the good ways.

    And perhaps something like https://github.com/kiviktnm/decman can some day give us part of Nix's power without going all-in with the functional declarative thingamadoodle.

    [–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

    I tried it once and gave up after realizing the necessary mental gymnastics to do simple things like installing something.

    [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'd been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

    Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

    [–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

    This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don't have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

    [–] Chef6652@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

    There is a Gnome/KDE installer too now ;)

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Slackware still does that in 2024.

    [–] jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

    You can even still launch Slackware from DOS!