OS-suggestion (Nix0S)
suggestion for support this one: NixOS ? (I'm newbie but seems to be a very stable OS)
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This is not really a suggestion channel
And more os's are not going to be added
There's no point
Stability is more or less the same across all linux based os's
And there would be even less support for apps on arm on such an obscure package manager
On arch there's already a good amount less packages for arm, and that's the second most popular base distribution.
TL:DR Debian or arch can do the same things nixos can, but better with more support.
I was an archlinux-distro user for years, now beginner with NixOS. If I say it's feeling very stable you can count on that, try this OS yourself with a liveISO. I wasn't talking about the package-manager although I still like pacman very much! I was talking about the OS-system itself.
The problem with archlinux is that many packages you have to get out of AUR and that's not very stable for the whole system.
The only thing that makes a distro different is the package manager
Because you can extract a linux program from its packaging like a deb and run it on any Linux based os
Not without dependency issues of course, but it runs. All Linux os's run the same code.
The only thing setting them apart is the package manager, the packages available out of the box, and the desktop environment look.
The aur just tells the system how to compile a program. On nix, since there's such limited apps available, you'd need to compile them yourself which would lead to more issues
search.nixos.org = 80 000 packages
archlinux.org/packages = 13988 packages (without AUR -> needs to be compiled!)
aur.archlinux.org = 85755 packages
okay, with nixos we have to compile it all (these packages, but it takes less time than compiling a package with aur, did you try to see the difference?) [unless you use flatpak (via flathub) and a gui-installer that uses flatpak]
It's not going to take less time unless you get a better device.
I think you're missing a lot of the main point of nixos
It is A. Completely reproducible
I can take my nixos config file and put it on another device and it will make my exact system again
And B. More resilient to breaking with stupidity
Because each time you change your config file it backs up the old one
And on boot you can choose which to use
So if some package makes your system unusable
You just revert to a previous config file easy
This reproducibility means you can switch phones easily and still have all your stuff installed, and if you have to reset termux to try something else you can easily restore from your config file if you keep it on internal storage
As is any other os
It'd all linux
Much much much more difficult and annoying to do
It all works the same
The package manager is the only thing different
Nixos everything is governed by a single file
Linux is linux
The packages are all the same
You can extract any distro package and run it on any other distro
The packages are the same but it legitimately is the way it manages them that is awesome
No duh
You can even install it's package manager on any other distro
Less true
Can't be too good, it's used by almost nobody
It's not gonna work properly
It is true.
Not true
Yes, it will
Used widely for system administration
Due to that easy reproducibility
It's linux kernel with package
That's all it is
Having apt and nix at the same time
Yeah it's possible
Would mean none of your apt packages were in your config file
I've ran dpkg on arch
And it would defeat the point
It wouldn't because it's all linux
It's not special because of its package manager
I can recreate the entire system in a couple hours on debain
Or arch
It is special because of it's package manager
Or anything
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NixOS is Mindblowing
NixOS has blown my mind with how businesses are utilizing it and the job offers I have received for managing it. You need to learn it!
Article: https://christitus.com/nixos-explained/
NixOS Videos
- First-Time Setup - https://youtu.be/_Z32SYFbxpw
- In-Depth Configuration - https://youtu.be/IRRtk320j2A
- SystemD Tweaks - https://youtu.be/1qd0iH...
The package manager is most certainly the cool part
That dude has some bullshit clickbait
And he's a bit of a hypocrite
Chris Titus is like a pretty well liked dude from my understanding
Cause of his windows tool and such
His windows tool genuinely does make life so much easier each time I have to use windows