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she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here… she should double-check gender.nix
I believe it’s because they’re not using flakes. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it’s just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind…
… right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
I guess that’s why the man is broken
She was cis until she started using Nix.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she’s the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
“Gender assigned at birth” would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.
You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.
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?
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
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
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.
Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!
Debian here, it’s true, I have both their wives
Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.
Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only
minormajor version conflicts
I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke
Overdone stuff for a joke in a community called linuxmemes? Unpossible!
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.
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).
So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…
Rip
They’ll find her years later, twitching and mumbling, buried under a printout of https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
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
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
How? Please share dot file
Dont need to with Nix lol.
When it launches it has your previous configs locked and loaded (provided you dont nuke them)
Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I’ll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.
Immutables are too hard for me. I prefer the simplicity of apt.
That’s one of those things I’m trying to figure out. They’re actually a bit more complicated than your regular distro. They’re not that bad, but my mind is not there yet. I need some time to dig into it and learn things. I’m definitely switching eventually.
As someone who started with Slackware in the 90s, it took me a while too.
I switched over to Bazzite from Windows 10 on my main PC because I wanted something I could game on. But, even though most of my games work great on it, I haven’t played that many because I ended up just happy to have a Linux system I could use for projects I’d been putting off.
It’s true that if you’re used to a plain Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora system, you have to do some things differently. But, in exchange you basically never have to worry about installing a package because there’s been a vulnerability discovered or something.
The happy medium I found is using distrobox on Bazzite. Inside a distrobox, you can use apt or whatever to manage the software you want. You can even export things from the distrobox to the main OS – like, say you installed a GUI editor in the distrobox, you can have it available as if it were a normal app in the main immutable OS.
Distrobox might help you switch if you’re feeling hesitant. OTOH, if you want to fully grok the system before switching, or want to be able to customize the images you’re installing, that can take a while to figure out.
Man, distrobox confused the shit out of me the other day. I admit, I didn’t feel like digging and learning it. I just let it go once I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I want to install bazzite in a VM and mess with it for a while until I made sure I know what’s going and also make sure that I can get all of my programs. It’s going to be all flatpak and I am not a big fan of flatpaks. I know people swear by them, but I avoid them like the plague
Why don’t you like flatpaks? I’ve basically never had any issues with them, but maybe I will in the future.
As for distrobox, what’s the confusion? Were you trying to do something advanced? Or, was there an issue with mapping things between the host and distrobox? I haven’t really pushed the envelope, but the only issue I’ve had is that I wanted my shell history to be different between the distrobox and the host, so I had to tweak my zsh startup files to detect if I was in a distrobox and save history in a different place.
Aliases.making.probably
Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.
Also, not tinkering when you don’t want to tinker.
my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is
i feel bad for her
Meme OSes are a cult of personality for nerds. I’ll try it when it’s been more battleworn and maybe gets some large org usage
I mean… nix has been around for like 20 years at this point lol
Also Mozilla uses it as far as I know
It ain’t bad. The only thing I wasn’t able to get working so far was trying to build an react native expo app locally.
Like juipeltje said, NixOS is older than Ubuntu, and I think about a month younger than Arch Linux
I’ve used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.
I went back to Arch.
The way out is through
Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.
I clicked on the first link to the options appendix and noped right the fuck out.
That’s a level of involvement I reserve for activities where I either get paid 100€+/h, or otherwise support my family.And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Which I don’t do more than once every couple of years.
And then I click “next” a bunch of times on Debian, and copy /home over from my backup.The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That’s just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.
Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn’t that hard to learn, But having jto learn ust one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application’s config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.
Now if you’re not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.
You should try Guix!
I don’t think I will.
And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Well, that wouldn’t be the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.
that isn’t the first thing I’d mention
…well, what is? The logo looks nice.
For me, the factors were:
- the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
- easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
- the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
- as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
- the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows
I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
