“Just a few more tweaks… Ooooh, and what distros would work on that old laptop? And…”

  • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    but like, you can version control your entire os config how cool is that. I do agree its… time-consuming, which is why I haven’t jumped in yet

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      1 day ago

      Time consuming at first, but reinstalling a system is a breeze after that. I reckon nixOS has saved me so much more time than all the config tweaks put together.

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        18 hours ago

        do you reinstall your system often? i installed my system in 2022 right after slackware 15.0 released, never reinstalled since. even when switching hardware i just have to update/modify the kernel, nothing else.

        • mech@feddit.org
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          17 hours ago

          This. I don’t see where the benefit of NixOS even is.
          Everything in Linux is a file. You can literally just copy your system to a new drive, rebuild initramfs and fstab, and boot it.