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How often do you hop distros? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by fiddlestix to c/[email protected]

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Just curious to see what people are up to. I've been using Nixos for a while. It's fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?

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

This is the first time in 25 years of using Linux that I've changed distributions.

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to the club. Nixos is fabulous. There's a steep learning curve though, and I still don't really get flakes and home manager.

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

Oh, it's very simple. Home-manager is something not yet finalized, optional and unofficial. Flakes was added in Nix 2.4, but you don't have to use it all. You don't want to add unnecessary complications. You can do without home-manager and flakes on a single-user machine. This is just one of the system configuration options. I have tried deploying the system with flakes/home-manager, done it with docker and even with nix-env. The performance gain is not noticeable.

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HM seems worth the effort only if you do a lot of customizing and tweaks to your home setup. Would that be an accurate assessment?

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

Home manager and flakes is something optional in today's NixOS. I don't see any obvious use for a single-user home system. Of course, many people go the flakes-setup route. NixOS has many customization options, up to and including docker installation.