Caption: "When an average user who's new to Linux asks for recommendations and the usual discussion errupts".
Below two panels from an anime where first a girl holds up two grocery items (in this case two Linux distributions known to be very user friendly, Mint and Ubuntu). Then the guy holds up a single item that's NixOS, a highly technical distribution aimed at enthusiasts and professionals.
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Big nix fan here, I love being able to define my system from a couple configuration files and not scrounging around the file system for the right dot file

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  • And also it let's you do crazy things that would be impossible in other imperative distros tho.

    I am thinking about root-on-tmpfs, conditional configuration and doing all sorts of crazy things with packages while remaining manageable.

    It is simply another whole tier.

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