• Johanno@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Hey! I feel insulted using nixos. Well it is a fetish…

      Don’t use Nixos! I love it, but I don’t know anyone who I could recommend it. I guess dark souls players are some candidates

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        2 months ago

        That’s funny. A local guy at my drop zone raves about his nixos ‘build’ every time I see him. I have to remind him that the true love is based on hate and revulsion, which is why I’m on manjaro.

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        2 months ago

        I can highly recommend it for servers. On my desktop machine it’s not as convenient as e.g. arch, but it’s nice to only have to deal with one distro.

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I want to have a stable system that can easily be recovered. I am setting it up in advance for a computer I do not have yet and will need running relatively quickly and I don’t like the default DEs that come with other distros. Am I canidate? (Also maybe a future homelab setup?)

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          Learning curve is steep. Everything is fine as long as you don’t need to compile some c program that isn’t available in the existing packages.

          Have fun figuring out which libraries it expects to exist in a normal Ubuntu that are not in nixos.

          There is flakes which I haven’t even touched yet, but people claim it makes everything easier.

          I have kde as DE but you can do whatever you want on any Linux system

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            I’ll just say that Flakes sound a lot more daunting than their usage actually is. It’s basically just a single file you place into your configuration and then you use some different command flags to apply your config and that’s basically it.

            You only need to dig deeper into them, if you want to distribute Flakes to other users.

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        Well, I hated Dark Souls but love NixOS, no idea what that says about me, but probably something. I don’t like my games hard only my day-to-day life? Or something.

        Edit: Recommend it to Steam Deck users.