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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Cloud systems invented this concept called 'declarative environments' basically you describe the software in a container or os and the container orchestrator builds it for you. The same every time, you just give it a recipe.
Nixos is that for desktops.
It takes away a lot of the bullshit, experimentation and breaking of a classic os.
That being said, I always considered that the fun part, so ymmv.
It's like docker for server applications, it takes care of everything for you behind the scenes and just works (ish).