this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
31 points (100.0% liked)
Linux
47372 readers
791 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I always enjoyed NixOS, but then I got some CRAZY hardware issues. Like my monitor wouldn't turn on crazy even though it'd be working fine for a while.
That sounds more like a kernel issue than a distro issue. Were you on regular linux or linux_latest?
Regular. Yeah I've NEVER hit anything like that before. My only guess is something in one of the kernel patches ran into my hardware and my hardware nope'd out.
i tried it once, for one reason or another i didnt get past a few minutes would love to try it again what would you say does nixos do over endevouros/arch?
Well, ..everything?
Conceptually, endavour/Arch are closer to Windows than they are to NixOS. The only commonality is that they're made up of the same software components.
The way you set up a software environment is totally different. I'd highly recommend some research on what NixOS' declarative configuration is and what it means in practice.