• pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Yes. And I feel sad because I haven’t been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something’s missing…

    Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.

  • F04118F@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    Don’t listen to him! Just start using Nix to manage dependencies and dev environments for your projects but keep your OS the same until you are really good at Nix

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      How does that work? Let’s say I’m on pop os developing a thing, how would I manage deps and dev envs with nix then? In a VM or what?

      I’m a Linux nerd, but I totally don’t get nix. Tried to install some nix package manager on my Debian based distro and it was completely broken (the nix thing, not my os)

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    I’d been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

    Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.