What functionality does the reproducibility of nixOS serve to a user (like me) with only one desktop. Like I won’t be installing the same system multiple times, I understand the ‘predictable-ness’ of a declarative system. But are there some other advantages?
I installed some broken Nvidia drivers and lost all video out. I rebooted the PC, selected the previous generation, and voila… working PC again. On Arch I’d be debugging it for hours.
NixOS can be managed with Git and you can bring your old environment to a new PC without reloading a full snapshot. Config and data are kept separate when you use Nix to handle the config
I’m in the middle of nix syntax (nixtax?) and good lord it is quite the learning curve. It has been fun hammering my system back to where it was with Arch though and I’m looking forward to the magical powers that will come with mastering the language.
Nothing but respect for the community, y’all are something else.
A few days ago I started using NixOS as my daily driver. I am yet to understand how to use home-manager and the nix language but right now I’m good with the main configuration.nix and fleek.
Join the NixOS side! I almost never get a broken boot, and if I do, I can always rollback and debug my config when I have time.
Just curious before distro-hopping.
What functionality does the reproducibility of nixOS serve to a user (like me) with only one desktop. Like I won’t be installing the same system multiple times, I understand the ‘predictable-ness’ of a declarative system. But are there some other advantages?
I installed some broken Nvidia drivers and lost all video out. I rebooted the PC, selected the previous generation, and voila… working PC again. On Arch I’d be debugging it for hours.
Btrfs snapshots and auto snapshots is kind of the same?
NixOS can be managed with Git and you can bring your old environment to a new PC without reloading a full snapshot. Config and data are kept separate when you use Nix to handle the config
The „almost” part makes me a bit concerned, but i’m planning to give it a try
I’m in the middle of nix syntax (nixtax?) and good lord it is quite the learning curve. It has been fun hammering my system back to where it was with Arch though and I’m looking forward to the magical powers that will come with mastering the language.
Nothing but respect for the community, y’all are something else.
A few days ago I started using NixOS as my daily driver. I am yet to understand how to use home-manager and the nix language but right now I’m good with the main configuration.nix and fleek.