If you've hung out in Linux enthusiast circles lately, you'll have heard whispers that Arch Linux is no longer hot product. Instead, all the cool kids are using something called NixOS. Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source, I decided to give NixOS …

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.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    6·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        4·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
          2·
          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.