Redpill me on NixOS ni/g/gers
>should i fucking install it?
>why tf does everyone tell me to install it
Redpill me on NixOS ni/g/gers
Zachary Reyes
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Nicholas Bailey
install gentoo
Isaac Moore
immutable declarative configuration. you can roll back any configuration change. packages are always linked to the dependencies they were built against, so additional packages never break already installed packages, and removing packages never breaks unrelated packages.
it's also an absolute god send if you program
Sebastian Nguyen
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[yes i took the image from installgentoo wiki]
specify :
>DE/WM
>Distro
>Additional Info [if you want]
Adrian Brooks
oh wow i'm fucking retarded
well this is awkward
suicide 100
Jason Jackson
What if you don't program (yet) and this would be your first GNU/Linux distro?
Lucas Powell
Just use kubuntu/xubuntu.
Landon Watson
If you're not already comfortable working in a terminal, nixos will be pretty painful. even that is sort of the bare minimum. if you're new to linux, I would suggest debian (plain old debian) or one of the self-installing arch derivatives rather than nixos.
for experienced users: guix or nixos all the way
Aaron Collins
even if you go with a more user friendly distro, you can still install the Nix package manager and get many of the benefits of nixos without having to go all in. Nix the package manager can happily live along side whatever package manager comes with the distro you have installed.
Angel Baker
NixOS users, don't bother explaining here. I tried multiple times but Jow Forums is too immature to consider another way of doing operating systems, not to mention barely anyone on Jow Forums actually uses a Free operating system to begin with.
Everyone else: go to nixos.org or connect to the nixos irc if you actually want to learn more.
And the reason why people unironically recommend it is because it literally solved package management and dependency hell.