NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.

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      4 months ago

      The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.

      About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.

      wiki.nixos.org

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    1 month ago

    Just learn UNIX then you inherently know everything except windows

    (though mostly true this is still a joke relax)

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t like Anduril either, but what’s wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?

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        4 months ago

        I’m with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it’s a surveillance company.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.

      But by the time you’ve learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you’ve plateued.

      …I guessssss it could make sense? XD