Oddbean new post about login | logout @bronze @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: What's wrong with nixos? Never played with ot
It's incredible at setting your system configuration in stone, and moving it across computers. I was able to move my exact desktop setup across pc's extremely easy. Also my favorite use case of nix was orchestrating together all the -arrs for a media server. The problem is as soon as you want to start messing with something that's not defined in the nixos / home manager configuration file it gets extremely messy fast. You basically have to reverse engineer other people's nixpkg's and outdated blog posts to figure out how it works. If you just go by the github repo, reverse engineering won't work because every nix package has an implied "import" that's not shown in the repo. That little hangup got me for months lol. Also if you want to compile software, it is a massive pain due to how the directories are all insane hashes, and isolated. I tried to compile emacs from source for like a week on nixos and I couldn't figure out how to do it. Even copying from someone's blog post that said "here's how I build emacs from source on nix". And that's coming from someone who's packaged a couple things successfully. Basically it just makes everything you do on linux 3x as complicated for increased isolation.
@3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: Its the rust of Linux distributions. It pretends to be a better version of gentoo like how rust pretends to be a better version of C. Also, every single person that has shilled nixos to me is gay or in the closet. Really makes you think...
Yeah even though I used it for a year it wasn't something I flexed lol. I liked it and in terms of reliability, if you are fine with the winding road that it wants you to be on, it's fantastic. But after a while I wanted to start understanding and doing more with my system, and NixOS just demolishes how a standard linux distro is set up. So I finally am just going back to my baby Debian.
@bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: nixos trans flag when
@Pawlicker 🐾😹 @bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: fuck u
@Johnny Peligro @bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: https://media.clubcyberia.co/pleroma/9044b20c8144810e8e1a2fa81272337b79377493a8abbd9b935a48d47771f63e.jpg
How do you do my fellow Nix-ters :trans_comm:
@Pawlicker 🐾😹 @bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: be the change you want to see in the world
@WhiteExodite @bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: it exists already I found 🤣
@Pawlicker 🐾😹 @bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: >nothing for Void innate superiority :pippasmug:
@bronze @3b6f3983 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: > Also, every single person that has shilled nixos to me is gay or in the closet. i feel that this is a funny point considering that most linux users are that lmao
Gentards seethe with this one simple trick https://i.poastcdn.org/d8768a3dfbcff3bd5e776483c6566d6cacddf7816b4c3eedc10c5e2fe590ff3b.png
