I’m not a programmer. My brain just doesn’t work that way. I wish it did. I’ve tried teaching myself Python, and I took a semester of Java. I understand pretty much zero.
I don’t understand why some people insist on recommending NixOS as a first Linux distro. It’s so far from the norm and beginner friendliness they must surely be joking.
I run NixOS on all my devices including servers, desktop & laptop.
I’m able to configure a service, container, package whatever really and have it run just the same on another system without worrying about dependencies, reconfiguring or copying dots.
There isn’t a worry about installing / removing something and having that package break my system. Even if I did break my install I can boot from a USB, pull my config down from my local git or a mirror and be back in what is essentially the same system.
The hardest part of a reinstall for me is setting up drives, but that too can be a part of a config.
NixOS is the only distro that stuck with me, I tried Proxmox / Ubuntu / Arch / Manjaro but none of those really clicked for what I wanted / needed from an OS.
The idea is that “you can’t break the system” and you have snapshots you can roll back to in case you do. Which is all well and fine. I think there’s a whole lot of xkcd 2501 going on. As a baseline I don’t even think many people who play games are very comfortable poking in ini config files, and you want them to write configs for their entire system? Don’t forget you shouldn’t blindly copy scripts from the internet without understanding them first as well!
I’m not a programmer. My brain just doesn’t work that way. I wish it did. I’ve tried teaching myself Python, and I took a semester of Java. I understand pretty much zero.
I don’t understand why some people insist on recommending NixOS as a first Linux distro. It’s so far from the norm and beginner friendliness they must surely be joking.
I’ve been using Linux since 2007, and have tried many distros. I’m very happy with (and recommend) Linux Mint Debian Edition.
And everything is difficult in it. I don’t understand the advantage for a desktop of a declarative OS either.
I run NixOS on all my devices including servers, desktop & laptop.
I’m able to configure a service, container, package whatever really and have it run just the same on another system without worrying about dependencies, reconfiguring or copying dots.
There isn’t a worry about installing / removing something and having that package break my system. Even if I did break my install I can boot from a USB, pull my config down from my local git or a mirror and be back in what is essentially the same system.
The hardest part of a reinstall for me is setting up drives, but that too can be a part of a config.
NixOS is the only distro that stuck with me, I tried Proxmox / Ubuntu / Arch / Manjaro but none of those really clicked for what I wanted / needed from an OS.
The idea is that “you can’t break the system” and you have snapshots you can roll back to in case you do. Which is all well and fine. I think there’s a whole lot of xkcd 2501 going on. As a baseline I don’t even think many people who play games are very comfortable poking in ini config files, and you want them to write configs for their entire system? Don’t forget you shouldn’t blindly copy scripts from the internet without understanding them first as well!