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.

  • SirDimples@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    I like reading about OS journeys like these. Personally I ended up living with immutable fedora despite of its endless challenges, but I don’t think I’ll ever go back to mutable linux for my dev laptop. I feel immutability is a shield against change over time.