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Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu (fd93.me)

submitted 6 months ago by fd93 to c/programming

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Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here.

Wrote about why I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu after using it for several months on my daily driver. Suspect that this take is likely to be kind of controversial and court claims of skill issues, which might even be true.

Let me know what you think.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

fucking with configs for hours regularly

this is the one reason i dont board the hype train for "customizable" distros: arch, nix, gentoo and so on unless im specifically looking to learn.

i use linux so i can install it and forget which distro im actually using.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have been on arch professionally for ~5 years.

I am a GUI fan and I don't like fucking around with the OS. In fact, I don't even want to think about it at all.

So far it hardly required any maintenance (much less than Ubuntu, Windows or Mac, at least for my workflows).

And the only fucking around I did with it was the first two days setting everything up just the way I like.

To be fair, I already had extensive linux knowledge at the point of switching to arch - through ~4 years of constantly breaking my Debians and Ubuntus every couple of months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

i find arch to sometimes break on updates for me. it always turns out to be either:

1- bleeding edge package update made it bleed 2- needed to be watching announcements and change some config file 3- i havent updated in a while and it dislikes that.

i like having 100% automatic updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Depends on what yoy install I guess.

It only broke twice for me from updates during the 5 year period. 1. grub 2. openjdk

and the openjdk one simply didn't update until I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the new one.