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Jump from Arch to NixOS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title implies, should I do it? I love Arch so far, and I can fix most issues that pop out. However, I sometimes wish to start fresh without too much hassle, but I get a feeling NixOS isn't as mature as Arch.

Have any of you used both, and if so, what do you miss from Arch? What are you grateful for in NixOS?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For many it's a radical change in paradigm, and I assume many just want to understand it well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough to be honest when I jumped in I dual booted with windows so always had a safety net (also was experimenting on my laptop before moving to my PC)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never went back to windows. I had my stuff in a separate partition so when I went back to Fedora or Arch, I had my stuff there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh same, I only ever went back to windows when I absolutely needed something to work immediately for something work related (my manager does not have much patience for my antics with technology when it doesn't go 100% smoothly)

My PC which is now purely for personal use I just completely wiped and replaced, didn't even keep the old disk contents because it was full of years worth of windows usage detrius

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hahahaha nice. I hope I don't have to dual boot windows. My laptop is fast enough for VMs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As long as you've got patience and you're not using it for work you should be fine