I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn't know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
You set a timer on your marriage, I'm sorry for you.
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don't require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
Quick, be fast and setup a binary cache so that he can substitute nixos.org with you.
Trust me, it's the only way.
You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I'm intrigued.
You can nixos-rebuild her, you have the technology.
I use debian btw (why do arch users get all the fun)
Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it's mostly like Arch right?
Iβve noticed that more and more, interesting new projects have nix, appimg, pkg, and docker releases. So on Debian, I need to rely on non-native packages or compiling more frequently than before. Not a big issue, but itβs a new awkwardness I wasnβt used to.
no, texting is packages that are chosen to make it the next version of debian stable, the version your thinking of is debian unstable/sid, which is not a standalone os but a repo that you can change to after you install either testing or stable (unstable does not refer to the stability of your system but to the stability of package compatibility as it turns debian into a rolling release system like arch) Note: you can use Bookworm (stable) and trixie (testing) repos along with sid repos but itβs not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)
Because you are too reliable ;(
"They may be unstable but at least they notice when I'm in the room" -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones
How much more complicated is NixOS compared to a neovim setup? On paper I love the idea.
Much more I think. The initial setup is the hard part, and I would recommend keeping a second computer on the side so you can keep trouble shooting when your display driver shits the bed or your wifi module decides it would like to take a nap.
I installed NixOS a couple months ago, and it's been my smoothest Linux experience to date. Everything just worked, except I had to figure out how to open the firewall for my network drive on my home server to be discoverable and usable. But that was fairly expected. I game, so I stress test the graphics routinely. No WiFi, though, so I guess that could maybe be flaky.
Wouldn't you be able to just rollback to a working generation?
Usually, breaks happen when you're trying to change something - if you aren't trying to install something or change some configuration everything that works will keeps working.
I spent almost 20 years as that wife.
The feeling of "conflating reality and whatever computer topic you're currently engrossed in" is too real.
she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here... she should double-check gender.nix
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There's nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she's the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn't sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
"Gender assigned at birth" would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.
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So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...
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