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You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn’t know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
Quick, be fast and setup a binary cache so that he can substitute nixos.org with you.
Trust me, it’s the only way.
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don’t require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 moths non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I’m intrigued.
How much more complicated is NixOS compared to a neovim setup? On paper I love the idea.
Much more I think. The initial setup is the hard part, and I would recommend keeping a second computer on the side so you can keep trouble shooting when your display driver shits the bed or your wifi module decides it would like to take a nap.
I installed NixOS a couple months ago, and it’s been my smoothest Linux experience to date. Everything just worked, except I had to figure out how to open the firewall for my network drive on my home server to be discoverable and usable. But that was fairly expected. I game, so I stress test the graphics routinely. No WiFi, though, so I guess that could maybe be flaky.
Wouldn’t you be able to just rollback to a working generation?
I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don’t have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don’t know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
We will be hiking together until then.
I use debian btw (why do arch users get all the fun)
Because you are too reliable ;(
Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it’s mostly like Arch right?
You can
nixos-rebuildher, you have the technology.I spent almost 20 years as that wife.
Reddit ai generated slop.
The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.
Nailing this regex will save me hours.
Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago…I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.
(I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).
my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is
i feel bad for her
I feel this, but my other love is gentoo…if only I could get portage to just stop finding more package masks or multiple instances of the same package slot…it’s always something that makes me do another upgrade in an attempt to troubleshoot and it’s usually because I get so caught up in just fixing silly mistakes that I forget to actually get to the
eselect newsthat would have avoided the last stack of 6 compounding issues in the first place.But I love how fun it is and I’m never leaving no matter what other nix-like cults pop up
Between that and never having the money to upgrade my computer I finally had to give up Gentoo after nearly 20 years of use. I keep wanting to go back but its just too painful and I just can’t bite the bullet to do a binary install.
I’m pretty sure you could still find a decent thinkpad from ebay that would surprise you how cheap they are
