pastermil,

Gentoo!

dinckelman,

I’m enjoying what Nix does. That said, the learning curve is very steep, and the documentation is very inconsistent and usually poor.

The repositories for both nixpkgs and nixos are absolutely colossal, which is a huge plus, but their configurations are not listed on the same page, and it can lead to a lot of confusion. Unlike Arch’s PKGBUILD, which practically tell the build system exactly what to do, you’ll have to learn the structure of current configuration files, or the more recent flake system, to setup things how you like.

pineapplelover,

Maybe I’ll wait until things aren’t a mess

LunchEnjoyer,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

I recently had the same thoughts but was Ted to try nonetheless. Asked for some beginner friendly resources here on lemmy a little while back. Might be to further help for some 😊

lemmy.world/post/9968863

BCsven,

Its actually not that bad. A few google searches on how to setup config files and going to search.nixos.org/packages to show you what info to fill in in the NixOS configuration is all you do.

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

And, even more importantly, search.nixos.org/options to figure out which options to set. Always search for options first. “Installing” something by just adding the package to systemPackages etc. is usually the correct thing to do for end-user applications but not for “system things” such as services.

BCsven,

Do you mean search.nixos.org/packagesBecause that has config info on the page of the listed package. Unless I am misunderstanding what you meant by their configurations?

dinckelman,

That’s technically correct. The “NixOS configuration” tab is sufficient to just install something, however out of ever package I’ve personally used, none of them have listed the available options there. For example: this theme, and what the extra options are

o_d,
@o_d@lemmygrad.ml avatar

That’s just the installation config. For more popular packages, the wiki sometimes contains additional configuration.

sping,

the documentation is very inconsistent and usually poor.

So many excellent projects are crippled by having little but reference docs and scant, over abstracted descriptions.

Linuturk,
@Linuturk@lemmy.world avatar

Damn Small Linux was a favorite a long time ago.

PopOS! Is it for me these days.

I’ve started to dip my toes into NixOS. I really love their design concepts.

socphoenix,

Damn Small Linux became tiny core linux! it’s still something that’s fun to play around with

Deebster,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Can it still be a favourite if I haven’t touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.

atzanteol, (edited )

Same! I’m on Ubuntu and Pop these days but I fondly remember my old distcc build cluster…

Portage is still far and away my favorite package manager.

Unforeseen,

Hahaha same on the distcc cluster. It was a rare proud moment for me many years ago. I rememeber when I got the cross compiling working it felt like magic. Good times.

SteleTrovilo,

QubesOS. When you need security and don’t need to play games, this is objectively the best distro.

sibloure,

I thought you meant using any distro other than Qubes was “playing games.” Then I remembered actual computer games exist.

SteleTrovilo,

NixOS for me. It’s a package manager (a very nice, declarative one) that you can use on any Linux (or Mac), and there’s also an entire distro based on it.

lupec,

Yeah I’ve gotten into Nix recently and it’s slowly been taking everything over bit by bit. So now I have the standalone package manager when I’m on WSL or other distros, full NixOS on a couple machines, fully reproducible LXC containers for my Proxmox build, the list goes on and on! Hell, I’ve got it on my steam deck to manage my CLI apps just because I can lol

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