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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NixOS for most things, Debian on some servers as a docker host

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting. I’ve using NixOS many years on servers but recently also started using it as a base for docker hosts. Before that I used Ubuntu or Debian for docker hosts, but I figured out I still like the declarative approach even for simple servers like docker hosts. There’s your basic security config, ssh keys and monitoring setup that I used to do imperatively, but I much rather have declaratively now, no matter how small. And enabling docker on NixOS is just a virtualisation.docker.enable = true; anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh I know it's better, problem is I host some stuff my friend group relies on so I don't want downtime while I figure things out. Also, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get NixOS set up on a VPS without native support (I'm on Hetzner and I know it's possible, it's just a bit of a hassle). It's one of those projects that I'll get to eventually, when I got time. Or so I tell myself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’m on Hetzner too. You’re right, it is a bit of a hassle. I wish they’d just include a native image into the interface. I use infect and it works quite seamless though https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect?tab=readme-ov-file#hetzner-cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I recently started using compose2nix, and I'm enjoying it.

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix