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I am curious, what makes NixOS such a good choice?
From the article:
Id argue an immutable distro would likely serve the same purpose but maybe its also because nixos isnt as "locked down" so itd be easier to configure for a specific purpose?
The big draw is probably that it's declarative, so you can define installations as code much the same way as you would do with Terraform. Instead of needing a pile of messy Ansible playbooks running custom scripts to change anything (and which can break if the target machine has an unexpected config), you'd just have one that pushes a new version of the config and runs nixos-rebuild. Rollbacks are just as easy if anything breaks. What's not to like?
Right so in that way, its very reproducible. That was my understanding and I appreciate you for the more in depth explanation but is there advantage to that versus an immutable distro? Wouldn't a immutable distro work in a similar way being reproducible among many machines?
Rollbacks can be done on immutable distros as well right? I'm just curious why Nix was the first choice and not something immutable.
Thanks. I read Smiletolerantly's comment as a personal opinion, rather that a summary of the article. I read several articles in Dutch news outlets, but the main message was 'hurr-durr-Dutch'.
nix is on a whole different level than silverblue and other 'atomic' distributions.
But not curious enough to read the article.
You know, you could simply be helpful.
Sure.
It's in the fourth paragraph, starting with
and ending with