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Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

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[–] Lalelul@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I switched around one and a half years ago. I must say, there are some hurdles to using NixOS. Mainly I dislike that it always takes around 20 times the effort to start and project. You make up for the initial time investment, because you end up with a far more stable setup, but still it does take some willpower to get things started.

[–] ambrosia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

because it's good as hell and i don't want to have to spend time having to rebuild and reconfigure fresh OS installs or risk breakage when I could just use a config file that I know already works

[–] binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Void Linux and see no reason to move over to NixOS. The concept seems cool though.

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[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Glancing over the website, I thought it's an immutable OS, like Fedora Silverblue. I could imagine that it might be cool to use with Ansible and stuff. But for an average user? I can't really see the advantages in respect to the work you have to put in.

[–] nani8ot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It is an immutable distro, altough it isn't image-based like Fedora's rpm-ostree.

NixOS basically replaces Ansible because the Nix package manager achieves the same goals already (configuration, deployment, ...).

But I agree, the work necessary to put into this non-standard distro makes it hard to recommend for a casual user.

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[–] IDe@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's been around for like a decade, but was recently make more approachable by offering a graphical installer.

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