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The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.
I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn’t know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don’t require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here… she should double-check gender.nix
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it’s just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind…
… right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.
Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!
I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke
Overdone stuff for a joke in a community called linuxmemes? Unpossible!
Debian here, it’s true, I have both their wives
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…
How much more complicated is NixOS compared to a neovim setup? On paper I love the idea.
Much more I think. The initial setup is the hard part, and I would recommend keeping a second computer on the side so you can keep trouble shooting when your display driver shits the bed or your wifi module decides it would like to take a nap.
I installed NixOS a couple months ago, and it’s been my smoothest Linux experience to date. Everything just worked, except I had to figure out how to open the firewall for my network drive on my home server to be discoverable and usable. But that was fairly expected. I game, so I stress test the graphics routinely. No WiFi, though, so I guess that could maybe be flaky.
I’ve used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.
I went back to Arch.
Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.
I clicked on the first link to the options appendix and noped right the fuck out.
That’s a level of involvement I reserve for activities where I either get paid 100€+/h, or otherwise support my family.And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Which I don’t do more than once every couple of years.
And then I click “next” a bunch of times on Debian, and copy /home over from my backup.And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Well, that isn’t the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.
that isn’t the first thing I’d mention
…well, what is? The logo looks nice.
For me, the factors were:
- the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
- easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
- the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
- as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
- the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows
You should try Guix!
I don’t think I will.
Reddit ai generated slop.
Meme OSes are a cult of personality for nerds. I’ll try it when it’s been more battleworn and maybe gets some large org usage
