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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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NixOs why? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Hi everyone, someone can explain, in simple words, why considering to switch on NixOs over other distro? And the use case? I think would help a lot of people (including me) to understand it better :D

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

            
              1 config for all my devices (pc, laptop, aarch64 server)
1 config language that I have to learn for the most part
stuff won't randomly break on an update, and even if I mess something up, I can press the up arrow when booting to boot an older generation
everything is organized in 1 place (especially useful for my server, cause docker containers, NixOS container, native services are in the same spot)