What's the point of NixOS if I can just write shell scripts for setting everything up on Arch? Any distro can be "deployable" if you make it that way
>>107838810>t. filtered
>>107838829How can I be filtered by a distro that doesn't interest me?
>>107838810There is no point to it. Just like there is no point to Gentoo, LFS, Slackware, or any other >muh challenging distros!anymore.This 2026, not 1996. We don't have to track down dependencies anymore, we have package managers that can do that for us. We don't have cfdisk our fucking SSDs anymore, we have installers to handle that.Sick of these edgelord purists stuck in ancient times when they had to compile their own device drivers just get shit to work and think some how if you aren't doing the same, you're not going it right.They used to bleed you to cure diseases, we don't do that anymore because we have actual science now.They used to use horse and buggy to get around, we don't do that anymore because we have cars, trains, buses, and planes.We don't use telegraphs anymore because we have fucking phones now.AND we don't have to spend a weekend fucking with ancient shit distro because we have NEW distros that are 1 million times better at EVERYTHING.There are literally too many plug n play distros now to even bother with the ancient shit.>b-but muh edyoukationpiss off, knowing how to cfdisk does fuck all anymore. It's having the knowledge on how to crank start a Model T, completely useless.
retard herewhat does this even do better than arch or any of its derivatives?
>>107839269it doesn't, it's just another "manual" distro that chuds thinks makes them smart by installing it.
>>107839266Nixos has a GUI installer and takes like two YouTube videos to understand for the rest of your pathetic existence.
>>107839309>takes like two YouTube videosmeanwhile, it's takes like three clicks of a mouse fulling install fedora and no youtube videos to understand the rest of it, chud.
>>107839266>Nooo you shouldn't enjoy learning how computers work!!/g/ - Technology
>>107839321have you been inside a tsmc factory?
>>107839321>learning how to install programs by editing a config file = how computers work/g/ - Technology
>>107839314I guess two youtube videos doesn't seem like that much for a well-educated person with a postgraduate degree like me, but for someone like you it must seem like an impossibility. I need to have more sympathy for people like you. My sympathies.
>>107839328Uh, yes?Fucking around with modems is a great way to learn the basics on how the Internet works.Experimenting with engines is a great way to learn the basics on how cars work.Writing assembly is a great way to learn how CPUs work.Growing your vegetables is a great way to learn about botany and soil chemistry.God forbid people like things. Fuck your anti-intellectualism.
>>107838810>What's the point of NixOS if I can just write shell scripts for setting everything up on Arch?Read this neat guide on their page to understand the difference!https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works/
>>107839396>Fucking around with modems is a great way to learn the basics on how the Internet works.Lol what? NTA but you must be high AF.
>>107838810That wouldn't even be doing the same thing as Nix though lol
>>107838810nixos resets all the installed packages from scratchon arch you have to uninstall all the packages and then reinstall them all, which is not possible
>>107839210you're unable to grasp nixthat's the meaning of being filtered
>>107839555Why would I want this?
>>107839603There is nothing to grasp. It's shit. It's as bad as slackware. Well. Maybe not as bad as slackware, dried dogshit isn't as bad as slackware, but it's pretty close.
>>107839309what are these youtube videos
>>107839615when you uninstall a package on arch, are you sure the unneeded dependencies are also cleaned? the best way of making sure is to reinstall the distro from scratch
>>107839619here's to grasp: purity, which is when a function given an input it produces the same output and isn't affected by side effectswhich gives you reproducibility for your compiled packages, which arch also tries to achieve using chroot or vm
>>107839706`sudo -Rns package`
>>107838810on arch during package installation if the user cancels it or if there's a power outage, it will break the system because the package and its dependencies are partially installedon nix, this never happens, because when you install a package it either succeed as a whole or fails without any changes to the systemthis feature is often called atomic, made possible thanks to purity and immutability
