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Why I love NixOS
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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Agent..? Uh, okay, let's just use that word for everything now.
Sorry, where is the part where you built something?
Anyway, NixOS gets a lot of praise. Maybe it's something I should try if Manjaro doesn't survive its current drama (though it seems like they have a path forward now).
Yeah, that paragraph is where I stopped reading lol
Blog post aside, NixOS is fantastic. Once you get the Nix DSL down, it makes everything so smooth once you know how to configure your system. The learning curve for me came not from the packages, but learning how to set up system/program configurations using
configuration.nix, instead of the standard config files. But once you get that down, you can rebuild essentially the exact same system from a single file. I use it for my worker nodes on my server cluster, and it makes setup of new nodes a dream. Definitely recommend.When installing a package is too hard, one simply should not use a PC. Maybe the nursing home would be a better place.