NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just... didn't see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.
The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.
About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.
wiki.nixos.org
I use Gentoo btw
I've been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.
I think the point apart from declaring the whole system is that Nix saves changes to config files, this eliminates the concept of .pacnew / .pacsave.