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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What if the perfect distro were the configs we made along the way?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only to drop them all in favor of nixos. However you mostly can translate your config into configuration.nix

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's my goal. When I tried NixOS 3 years ago I didn't had time and there was a lack of documentation to make a .nix for missing packages. Community was... something not very welcoming. I will try again during college break.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well documentation is still not great. But I can deal with it.

The first step is to really understand how nix works and how nix-shell -p works.

Then probably know that autoPatchelfHook exists

And sth. You have to watch out for if you install sth. With a daemon or a service you need to enable it additionally to the installation.

So for example for open-iscsi you need to enable the service.open-iscsi = enable so it can work.

Flakes are still a nogo for me. I don't understand them and I don't want to deal with them until I get the rest into my head.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But like...yeah, that's kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a "perfect distro". I haven't really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I keep switching between Debian and Arch cause they're very different but both close to perfection. I think I'll stay on Arch for my gaming PC (newer drivers) and Debian on my laptop (just works).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I need newer software versions for my work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Understood, although I have had good luck with either using the Flatpak or installing the .deb distributed by the app developer for packages where the Debian version is too old.

[–] Shareni 1 points 7 months ago

I haven't really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

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