Is this just zoomer hype or is it actually legit?
>>107911075What do you intend on using it for? Because if it's just to install Linux onto a laptop or desktop it's a massive waste of time.
>>107911075If it's legit enough for thiel it's legit enough for you>>107911091also this, more pleasant experience than ansible but not one in their right mind would use ansible to just provision/manage their laptop/desktop
>>107911075some call it an "incremental atomic" distro. meaning that its an atomic distro, like youre used to, with the difference being that youre not locked into whatever the distro forces on you. you create the image yourself, from the configuration file you have in version control. its the perfect system honestly.if you dont want to dive that deep right away then you can just use the package management part at first, works on any distro.
>>107913294but I will say, its a bit overkill for a desktop system, Id recommend it for servers.
>>107911075calling things you don't understand "for zoomers" is incredibly narrow mindedfor starters, no one under the age of 30 uses nixos
>>107911075It's fun, i use it on my laptop, does the job nicely, it's nice if you want to share settings through computer and have your dotfiles tracked with git.Though, i don't use it on my desktop as it gets in the way pretty often.
>>107911075by amateurs, for amateursenjoy wasting 3 hours trying to figure out how to install pnpm with the newest Node.js LTS because some bored autist randomly decided to change the package name and scope also, it's impossible to pin packages to particular versions without enabling eleventy-billion flakes. Reproducible builds my ass.
>>107914116thoughts on guix?
>>107914274much better in theory because the configuration language isn't some poorly documented special snowflake garbage shat out by a PhD in an afternoon. I haven't yet had a chance to use it thoughbeit, as I'm a Mactoddler and Guix does not support macOS.I've heard it has less than a tenth the number of packages as the nixpkgs repo, so you might have to write your own package definitions. Should be pretty easy with OpenCode.
>>107914274Better language but not much software, especially non-free. Nix for most people, guix for toejamerz
>>107911075>Is this just zoomer hype or is it actually legit?It's shit, they're shilling it to combat the bad publicity they're constantly getting thanks to being alt-left giga authoritarian assholes.
>>107913884>Though, i don't use it on my desktop as it gets in the way pretty often.using nix on another distro + https://github.com/numtide/system-manager looks pretty promising, Im gonna try it next install
Looks neat but takes forever to get the right setup. Just install cachyos and call it a day.
>>107911075troon brainrotspend 10 minutes reinstalling a few packages when you reinstall vs. spend 10 hours learning some retarded DSLYou need zfs snapshots, backups and a package manager. This is academic retardation, par for the course.Every single part of nixos is a testament to just how much people can ignore the question "why did this need to exist?"
