Nix is my daily driver OS and the most stable experience I've ever had with any distro. But God do I fucking hate using Nix. Such a horribly documented experience for something so config heavy. Wtf were they thinking.
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Not just that, Nix as a language has an insane syntax. Who the hell dreamed function declaration like that
I mean the function syntax is pretty much just taken from Lambda Calculus.
mathematicians.
To quote just about everyone regarding sometning at some point in their lives: βewβ
And good luck deciphering wtf the exception log is trying to say.
They were thinking mgmtconfig.
Gentoo with Ansible
Excuse me...
Sounds pretty great to me honestly... Might spin up vm this weekend and give it a shot!
Thought let's be honest, I've grown kinda lazy in my old age and compiling kernels is kinda a pain if you don't need to so I dont know if I'll actually use it for anything
I wanted to play around with a project that uses Nix... it seemed really cool but I couldn't get it working, I guess I was throwing myself in at the deep end with it
It looks like a fantastic way of sharing a dev environment across a team
It is a fantastic way to make sure things work across a team. We use Linux (bunch of different distro) and macOS at my company and once I started packaging things with nix environment related issues mostly went away. It's not perfect and it's not necessarily easy to learn nix, but I prefer it to sharing docker containers or other alternatives.
Never had to use state so far, so I donβt know. Makes some sense for a personal config I guess, but afaic itβs never been necessary
Well state includes (for most configs I've seen) the persistence of user paswords, known_hosts, wifi auth, /home, /var, nix-channels, nixos-generations, disk encryption passwords, secrets in general, docker/podman, VMs, ...
Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)
The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module