Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Oliver Jensen (ojensen@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:59:32 JST Oliver Jensen

   OK so I *finally* gave NixOS a shot and oh gosh it's a game changer. The thing NixOS solves is *everything I hate about linux* that I apparently mistakenly believed was "just how linux works".

   I honestly did not know it was possible for a linux system to not suck as much as NixOS doesn't suck.

   #linux #nixos

   • Embed this notice
     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:59:31 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • musicmatze :rust: :nixos:

     @ojensen @musicmatze Have you played with any immutable distributions like Fedora Silverblue? Would love to hear your thoughts on the experience difference between them. nixOS has always struck me as too much hard work to get started :)

   • Embed this notice
     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 15:50:55 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @ojensen Thanks, I’ll have a play when I have some down time :)

   • Embed this notice
     Oliver Jensen (ojensen@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 15:50:56 JST Oliver Jensen

     in reply to

     • Aral Balkan

     @aral I have not, and probably won't in the near future, but I can say this:

     Installer to get a working fully-encrypted system with my preferred DE was trivial and fully GUI'ed. Time to a working system with the software I wanted and configured the way I like was ~15 minutes after that.

     I'm sure there's a lot of power i'm not yet taking advantage of, but time and effort to get started is essentially zero.