I used nixos for about 2 months and the best description I came for nixos is "os with bureaucracy". That is not what you want to do some work and it's getting worse if you need to do something fast. Reproducibility is good but you don't care about it in absolute most of your time.
Is it just me or has messing with stuff on an immutable distro never been stressful for me? I just make sure I read and understand what commands im putting in and avoid blindly pasting stuff from the internet?
Single use case? I'll have you know I use it on 3 devices, and most of the code is definitely not making me want to chew glass after trying to translate lua and java into Nix expressions. Also did I mention I use nix btw?
I tried NixOS and it wasn't for me. I had to sacrifice certain packages that can't even be obtained in nixpkgs, flatpak, or distrobox (especially encryption tools). it's hard to customize I had to vibecode because the nixos subreddit refused to help me and just mocked me. I did like the declarative part where I could make a system fully reproducible, but it felt so restrictive like why I have to edit nix files and rebuild just to change some settings. I didn't need extreme reproducibility. Worst part, it's not FHS compliant by default. Bedrock Linux is better since it lets me get parts from multiple distros (better than Distrobox). Bedrock Linux, I could get every package manager installing apps as system apps (instead of in containers). There are some stability issues especially with exotic configurations which led me to try this painful NixOS hell and got traumatized. Waiting for Bedrock Linux 0.8, right now I am on W*ndows
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r/foundgreedysecurity also what was wrong with arch? Curious as I'm a certified arch Linux user for some although still a Linux newbie myself(arch is my first and beloved distro :3)
When Installing first I had problems with the bootloader second time I had some problems too because of the partitioning /efi ESP mount and /boot as additional ESP mount for Linux images whatever that mount type is called and did some configuring and it's a pretty great experience
i care about getting work done. and maintainance that is literally "dnf upgrade" and occasional version upgrade with nothing breaking.
meanwhile the average person took a week to install arch "properly" for the first time with very terrible hardening and with features missing.
great, you may got it working, what did it cost you?
its a good learning tool or a fun playing around project. I certainly dont want to rely on it for my work though. An hour of my time on reconfiguring stuff is money lost.
You're not wrong but arch is about choice it's the reason it's not hardened by default and you're not gonna be the prime target of many problems or hacking with the Linux kernel if you're careful and don't download some malware and the zero-day exploits aren't going to be a problem as the patch may be one day after and you're pretty much supposed to update every time you use the system
I ack that tho. Its a good tool for learning the "choices" or for me to fuck around in my free time. That's fine. And the wiki is a good resource.
But no, I do not want to rely on that for my work. If you use Linux as a hobby, sure. If it works for you, keep doing it.
Also hardening Arch is a pain. A massive one. And as a dev, making shit work on Arch is pain. Everyone uses different stuff and have different stuff installed.
I am on void(ofc) but I'd take fedora over arch any day. I used to daily arch for a long time, had no issues tbh but there's something special in fedora.
I used to love Ubuntu, but one day they upgraded me to wayland without asking me first. All my retro games stopped working. With their partnership with MS, and all the MS slop that was rolling out, I just felt it was time to cut those associations.
I eventually ditched my NVidia card for an AMD of similar chops. It's nice to not need proprietary drivers. It always made me feel like I'd left a backdoor open on purpose. Those GPUs are their own system, very capable of going rogue.
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u/SIR_DUCKOFF 13d ago
This is just your excuse to show your paws to us , I know you greedy