Idk. With Arch I felt like I constantly had to be on top of things. With nix, everything is rock solid and stable, and if I want to change or add something, I do that, once, and then it’s also rock solid until all eternity and across all my machines.

In total I might have spent more time interacting with nix already, but it feels less like “work” than with arch. Higher setup burden, almost zero maintenance burden and zero mental overhead.

Happy holidays btw

Edit: forgot to include the context. For the Thunderbird example, I have spent 1-2 hours once, 2 years ago, converting all the Thunderbird config options to nix, and adding my mail accounts through nix. I have not had to go into the Thunderbird settings since, and after doing a fresh install on a new machine, my accounts are already THERE on first boot. A lot of things are tedious in nix, but you do them ONCE.

Nah, both ways are fine. The first one just installs the package, the second one enables the module, which installs the package + does a bunch of additional setup and gives you super convenient configuration options (like setting up mail accounts declaratively from nix)

Don’t you mean

home.programs.thunderbird.enable = true;

?

Yeaaaah I was pretty sure “Pornhub for Enterprise” isn’t real, but still had to look it up. Could have fooled me otherwise.

Especially because this ticks a lot of boxes for me. Well. Apart from the polycule.

Don’t forget the almighty:

journalctl -fu <servicename>

And yes, I am always reading that as “fuck you, service”.

Company went “here’s your budget for ordering a laptop. Put on it whatever you want”, and so there’s NixOS running on it :)

(To be fair though: small-ish, tech focused company)

Came here for this

Darktable is incredibly powerful. Like, the question is not if it has feature parity with LR/C1, but if those will ever reach feature parity with it.

But all that power is stuck behind a user interface that has never seen the loving touch of a UX engineer. Which really is a shame.

I just have one private german anime tracker. Everything else is Usenet.

Indeed.

Wait, no, hold on

My dad loves the Wank. No idea why. It’s a nice view, sure, but there’s so many nicer ones. Instead of exploring new views and mountains in the alps, he just climbs the Wank like 10 times a year, trying to beat his record (1h10min)

Another recmendation for Actual. I spend very little time having to interact with it, because after the initial setup, all transactions are now synched from my bank accounts, and 90% are automatically classified into my categories (not by “AI” or something, you just set rules like “payments to Rewe are always groceries”).

No, not really. The imperativity of ansible vs the declarativity of nix actually does make a big difference in practice.

(not the poster above)

btrfs is the only fs I’ve ever seen people have issues with, so I didn’t even want to try (though, I do recognize that that is just personal bias). I also don’t need the backup/rollback features.

Happily running xfs.

Oh, nice! And there’s even a nixpg!

Grew up on it. My dad set up a Ubuntu 4.10 PC for my brother and I when we were 3/5 (no internet, obv), and it stuck.

Used Windows for a brief time in highschool to be able to play online with friends.

Went right back to Linux when going to university. Will never change back, both for ideological reasons and because Linux is just better.

Next step: NixOS on a phone

A substantial amount of open source devs will probably just give up working on their projects if they can no longer be installed by most users.

That will also affect Graphene users.

Graphene will also only work until Google one day says “You know what… No!” and stops allowing it on their (new) hardware. I don’t think that’s far in the future.

Alright, thanks for the info, that’s good to know. Trying to make the jump becomes more enticing every day.

Thanks for sharing! Sounds about as good/bad as I was expecting. How’s the browser experience? Also, are there any features/tweaks you are aware of that you could not get through Nix, that the more “commercial” Linux device manufacturers have developed for their devices?

Holy crap! A NixOS-on-phone user in the wild! You are rocking my dream setup. How’s your experience been with it? Is it remotely daily drivable for phone things?