Well let’s see if it is worth it or if I go back to debian.

  • @Shareni
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    Have you used it with Debian? Much better that way IMO

    • JohannoOP
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      23 months ago

      Gonna try that next. Probably. Nixos isn’t really working if I don’t know how to do stuff.

      For example I can’t change settings in vlc because it is read only.

      • @Shareni
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        23 months ago

        It’s a whole different story when it’s just a package manager and not a distro. I made this comment to help people get started.

        I’d only use nixos if there was a specific reason. Otherwise it’s too much trouble for practically no benefits.

        • JohannoOP
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          The benefit would be: changing stuff doesn’t break it. And if it does you can easily roll back. Keeping the config file sets up a new installation like the old one without trouble. Somehow I don’t think you really need it if you aren’t distro hopping but I need it way too much.

          Currently the trade offs are too big I think. Programs don’t work because of the atomic behaviour.

          And the learning curve is steep even for Linux veterans.

          • @Shareni
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            33 months ago

            You don’t need nixos for that. The only thing you lose is rolling back system configuration, unless you use system-manager.

            Unless you’re doing scientific computing, or being a sysadmin for a company, you don’t actually need nixos. It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough.

            The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage.

            Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.

            • JohannoOP
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              I did install vlc. I started vlc. I noticed completely wrong subtitle size. I went to settings and tried to change some and save. Vlc throws an error it can’t save the file, permission error.

              I install vlc with flatpak. Same subtitle error. I go to the settings, I don’t get an error but the settings don’t change anything.

              Also almost anything i do in the plasma settings doesn’t get saved.

              And that shit should only be saved in the home folder.

              I think I have to clean my home folder.

              But then I have to do the setup of plasma again.

              • @Shareni
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                23 months ago

                Damn, that sucks.

                I gave up on nixos long before getting to that point. On Debian I use apt for to install a few user packages like alacritty because of Nix issues. Everything else is pretty much the same linux experience.

                • JohannoOP
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                  23 months ago

                  The concept is a great idea.

                  The documentation is rare and the atomic behaviour seems to break my whole Linux work flow.

                  Which is a good thing I guess. But I can’t Google “how to do x on nixos” and get a reasonable answer. I get nothing. Or some weird forums where I don’t know what they are talking about.

                • JohannoOP
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                  13 months ago

                  Ok can confirm. 90% of my problems went away on a new home directory.

                  However I still don’t know how to iscsi.

            • JohannoOP
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              23 months ago

              Mhh fedora.

              I liked it and I liked nobara.

              However I liked debian more somehow.

              But I could consider going back for his.

              • @[email protected]
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                43 months ago

                My heart is always with Debian, but Bazzite is a surprisingly useable immutable OS. I would suggest using it for your core suite then use Distrobox w/ Debian for any apps outside of that. It’s so snappy!