• minorsecond@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Seriously thinking about nuking my years old Gentoo installation to try Nixos at this point.

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        1 year ago

        Could always just get another drive instead of tearing it down, storage is pretty cheap these days.

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          1 year ago

          True. I’ll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

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            1 year ago

            I’ll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

            Or just leave it where it is and mount it there too ¯\(ツ)

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              Well my home is on my spare drive currently lol. I guess I could just create another btrfs subvol alongside @home and use that as root.

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                  1 year ago

                  I’d normally agree with you lol, but I got laid off recently so I have to make due with what I have for now.

                  The obvious answer that escaped me for whatever reason was just to create a VirtualBox VM. I already have it installed so why not.

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        The whole OS is configured by a single file (or subfiles you include from the main file) - every package and setting can be there. Meaning you just move the file to a new OS, run a single command, and you have the exactly same OS.