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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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use Alpine, tbh I dont see why I should learn an entire programming language just for a distro

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel "bloated") so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I keep seeing this sentiment, what's wrong with systemd?

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    Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24

    And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps:

    https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#stable_vs_mainline

    How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file?

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