• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    105·
    1 month ago

    The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        18·
        1 month ago

        Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago…I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.

        (I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        30 days ago

        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.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        81·
        30 days ago

        Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she’s the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.

        • cygnus@lemmy.ca
          5·
          30 days ago

          Most trans people would say they were never cis.

          Bad terminology on my part, I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it!

    • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      1 month ago

      I believe it’s because they’re not using flakes properly. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 month ago

    So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 days ago

      It is amazing, the power of a mature immutable OS, is amazing. Frankly though Ive found the reality of nix the exact opposite: because everything is configured in the one place, updates, and changes in general are so easy and risk free (rollbacks a breeeeze). So i save more time than lose tbh.

      Modules and flakes are next level.

      Configure ALL THE THINGS!

  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world
    47·
    30 days ago

    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?

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 month ago

    I’m a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I’ve attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.

    I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. “Ok, honey, I’ll be in the living room watching my shows.”

    This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.

    When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I’d come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She’d call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.

    She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
    30·
    29 days ago

    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.

  • Parafaragaramus@infosec.pubEnglish
    281·
    1 month ago

    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!

  • kronarbob@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 month ago

    whispering into the void

    That’s it, that’s the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife’s trust, then it was over.

  • platoose@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is

    i feel bad for her

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 month ago

    Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I’ll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 month ago

      Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.

  • skibidi@lemmy.world
    161·
    1 month ago

    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.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        21·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • Laser@feddit.org
          6·
          1 month ago

          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.

            • Laser@feddit.org
              61·
              30 days ago

              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
        • Decq@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 month ago

          The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That’s just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.

          Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn’t that hard to learn, But having to learn just one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application’s config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.

          Now if you’re not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    1 month ago

    At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it

      • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Everything

        But yeah, being super personalised is the joke. I don’t see many NixOS users typing out nixos-rebuild outside of making tutorials.

        • Hexarei@programming.dev
          1·
          30 days ago

          Ohh I see. Yeah that’s fair. I have a lot of aliases on my machines as well, not even being a Nix user (though I have long term plans to … lol)