So you chose war?
You’re playing Devils Advocate, and you probaly know it xD
Anyway, I prefer NixOS for it’s declarativity, reproducibility and immutability.
Example: You want nginx with acme setup? Just tell it to, and NixOS will figure out the steps to reach the desired state.
NixOS is amazing. Literally a perfect distro. I use it on my personal server, and getting things up and running is both faster and more reliable than with Ansible. I have 2 VPS with identical configuration, one for testing, and the modularity of the Nix language makes this extraordinarily easy.
It’s funny seeing other distros claiming they invented a solution to problems NixOS solved 20 years ago. Immutability? Atomic upgrades? Containers? Good job, Fedora!
Whats a good begnner nix yt or blog etc. I just got a beelink n100 i want to use as my guinnea pig with nix
Honestly, Nix’s documentation is terrible. This is a good start, but eventually you will have to solve your problems with a lot of googling, browsing Nix forums, reading NixOS’s source code (99% of which is written in Nix) and reading furry blogs (for some reason, a disproportionate amount of Nix bloggers are furries). I’d recommend installing the OS and trying to configure it however you like before trying more advanced stuff like flakes or packaging new software.
My experience with Nix is that I’m knowledgeable enough to use it somewhat properly and know which concepts to use and when, but it took me months and lots of trial and error to reach this point. At some point, it just clicked, and now I’m comfortable with it just like I am with regular Linux. And I find it MUCH better. On my server, I can add a new service and integrate it with my LDAP in 15 minutes. No way doing it by hand or using Ansible will ever be this fast AND reliable.
Thanks. Been running ubuntu as daily driver for 10 years and looking to change it up. I hate snap and where its going. So good as time as any. Will move desktop eventually if i like it enough as long as i can game as easy (amd/amd) via steam.
I started using nixos three weeks ago. I use it every day on desktop now, and also switched my homelab serve to it. These videos on Vimjoyer’s channel where a great starting point. I recommend trying to go straight to using a flake to update your system instead of channels. Its confusing to get setup, but makes so much sense once you do.
My problem with Nix stuff is the lack of documentation. When I tried home-manager, I had a bunch of issues with undocumented config options and such
You know what? Ubuntu. There I said it.
I’ve been using it since 2007 - 7.04 was my first foray into Linux ever. At present day it’s been the most “it just works” distro for me. I installed it and… that’s it. Everything just worked.
I don’t care about the “ads” in the terminal. I don’t care that it’s “bloated” (even the most bloated distro is less bloated than Windows).
If a company is porting their software to Linux, chances are they’re focusing on Ubuntu. Not Debian. Not Mint. Ubuntu.
If something isn’t working, chances are there’s a community post about it with a working solution.
It’s cool that distro hopping is a hobby for a lot of people. It isn’t for me. I want no bullshit, just set it up and let it work so I can focus on doing stuff within the OS, not setting up and fine tuning the OS itself day in and day out. And for me that’s Ubuntu.
I don’t use Ubuntu on my desktop but in my experience it performs on par with other distributions and it is not a RAM hog either.
I thing “bloat” is a big mythical monster people like to throw around because it’s difficult to argue against and scares everybody.
I think snaps were slow to load to begin with but I also read that it was much improved recently, one can also install Flatpak.
So I think Ubuntu is a great distro, performant and stable.
I like to think of Ubuntu as the distro that just works. Easy install, tons of guides, tons of apps in deb form, minimal use of console.
My only issue with Ubuntu is that I effectively have to have two app stores to get everything I want. I’m not the biggest fan of Snaps, but they aren’t showstoppers for me. If Ubuntu Software supported Flatpak (and fixed .deb installers) I’d happily daily drive it.
Arch or EndeavourOS, depending on the machine’s purpose and my mood at install time. I prefer rolling release, and pacman + AUR is a lovely combination.
Is this question going to arise every month?
That’s rather optimistic. I’m pretty sure it’s daily. Although, perhaps it’s only once a month that it gets upvoted
It shows people are interested and exposure to Linux is growing. It’s a good thing.
Shit, here we go again 🤦.
openSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s bang up to date and utterly reliable.
Agreed. I want rolling release so I’m up to date and don’t have to reinstall when a major version upgrade inevitably breaks something. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gives me that in a reliable little package. It has its quirks, but I’m trying to learn as I go.
Arch, because the packman animation when installing packages is very nice.
Fite me.
You mean the w/ ilovecandy animation or the default animation? One of these options will make me fight you.
I’m using endeavouros but it’s too long to type and I’m lazy, hence arch. It seems that endeavour has ilovecandy by default, so that one.
Have you heard that sweet tooth causes addiction?
Fedora Silverblue and Silverblue specifically. I used to run Arch and did all the cool things from DE customization to custom kernels and other cool shit with scripts and so on. Now I just want a system that I know will boot and just do it’s thing
I’m been slowly migrating all my computers over to immutable distros, either silverblue or universal blue.
Once you get used to the container paradigm, you can do all your customization and easily copy it over to other machines without fear of breaking anything.
Plus, having automatic updates and knowing that you’ll always boot into a reliable machine, it’s the best.
Nix-Darwin , DayWalker of Distros, all of the strengths, none of the weaknesses
Wait a second, so that basically turns MacOS into NixOS?
Fedora, because the packages are up to date enough for me, and I’ve never experienced any breakage.
Linux Mint Debian Edition. I mention it a lot on here, but it really is my favorite distro. I have been using Linux a long time, and I’m old. I don’t care to spend a lot of time and effort tweaking and configuring. LMDE gives me everything I need and is usable out of the box, while not standing in my way when I need to get shit done.
SteamOS because it comes bundled with the SteamDeck…
If it wasn’t for updates deleting everything I install with Package Manager I’d have no complaints.
Daily Driver, use it for work and school, only gotten better with time
Fedora over Ubuntu. Ubuntu nowdays seems lost it’s soul…
Fedora and Gnome workstation is the best ootb Distro I ever hold.
Also Fedora Xfce spins ovrr Linuxmint or Xubuntu. They are first class, stable, and bleeding edge.
I think “lost it’s soul” is a great way to put it re: Ubuntu.
Debian because the swirl looks cool and the installer makes me feel old and sophisticated without having to be old and sophisticated.