- cross-posted to:
- nixos@infosec.pub
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- nixos@infosec.pub
Am I out of touch?
No, it’s the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.
- null ( @null@slrpnk.net ) 35•2 months ago
NixOS is the most boring distro I’ve ever used.
I configured everything across multiple machines and now it just works.
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 23•2 months ago
How, tho?
Seriously, how do you even get started? It’s like the tutorials are all, “This is a basic ‘Hello World’ module/flake. Now, you are a master.” I would love to figure it out, but I need a little more hand holding.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 14•2 months ago
Yeah, I’ve had the same experience multiple times, people have been raving about it but I can’t find a tutorial that is as noob-friendly as I’d need it.
I HIGHLY recommend forking a nix-config that uses flakes, home-manager, and whatever window manager you prefer. Since Nix is so versatile (and the documentation of flakes and home-manager are BAD), I found it absolutely crucial to reuse a well-architected config and slowly modify it in a VM to sketch out my config until it was stable enough to try on a real machine.
- 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English5•2 months ago
- nullpotential ( @nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•1 month ago
Sure I guess if you can manage to get everything to work in the first place which involves following sixteen different guides across twenty-three different websites all of which with conflicting information.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 6•2 months ago
No, it’s the AI enthusiasts that are wrong.
- 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English4•2 months ago
I’m suprised I havnt seen people using nix for docker images more.
It’s still fairly challenging and the documentation is probably, at best, dogshit (if I may be so blunt) at the moment.
OCI is probably a more worthy goal anyway, IMO. And it is unsurprisingly much more well-supported.
- 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
Huh seems cool if i had the bandwidth and time I’d convert my things over but i really couldn’t be bothered tbh.
- DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 months ago
I’m testing out Immutable Gentoo right now. 😜
carbonOS looks nice. Might have to try that out.
- electricprism ( @electricprism@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month ago
You want shit to JustWork? No! /s
- amanneedsamaid ( @amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ) English1•1 month ago
Using Fedora Sway Atomic has been the most consistent Linux experience I’ve had.