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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:49:20 JST Drew DeVault

   NixOS 🤮

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:49:19 JST Drew DeVault

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     My partner is only moderately technical and their new employer dropped it on their laptop and said "good luck", took 16 hours to go from "here's a flash drive with NixOS on it" to "laptop has working FDE and can run sway but only sort of and KDE is still there even though it's not being used"

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:50:07 JST Drew DeVault

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     @zardoz03 /etc/apk/world on alpine is far better at this and it's so, so, so much simpler.

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     zardoz.el (zardoz03@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:50:08 JST zardoz.el

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     @drewdevault NixOS is probably the worst cases of functional fervour i am aware of. Some of the OK ideas like "the package manager has a full picture of all software on the system" makes sense in a vacuum. But NixOS does it in a way that breaks too many assumptions and in such a way that makes using it, makes you suffer from dogmatism.

     consfigurator for Debian is probably saner overall while keeping the "declarative OS" lark

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:54:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • zardoz.el
     @drewdevault @zardoz03 And Alpine has decades under it's belt as something where you can effectively dump the config and be able to functionally get the same system back.
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     khm (khm@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:55:43 JST khm

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     @drewdevault yes, this: I feel exactly about nixos as I do about git. cool tech, not my shit, pain in the ass to work with. see also attached image

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 06:55:44 JST Drew DeVault

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     I wonder if the way I feel when people say "but it's this great functional and declarative and super elegant DSL configuration-based operating system" kind of jargon is how others feel when I talk about how git is good actually