Ancestors

Written by Oscar Cunningham on 2025-01-03 at 18:05

I've installed #NixOS on my daily driver, and I'm really loving it so far. The most pleasing thing is that you can't fuck it up. With Debian I'd try a hundred things to get my GPU working, and then I'd worry that the ninety nine bad attempts had left my system in a weird state. With NixOS the entire state of the system is defined from a single file, so once you've found the right config then the system will always be correct! And finding the right config was actually easier too.

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Toot

Written by Nathan Corbyn on 2025-01-03 at 18:57

@OscarCunningham I used to use Arch and would occasionally ‘turn my PC into a vegetable’ (as my father would say) prompting a reinstall (long job) to get back to sensible. Switching to NixOS, I found the ability to roll back to working configurations in these situations life changing.

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Descendants

Written by Oscar Cunningham on 2025-01-03 at 19:26

@antidote I haven't yet managed to vegetise my computer entirely, but I look forward to being able to not panic when it happens. I imagine it will also be very easy to migrate to a new machine.

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