β² 427 βΌ In my earlier days of running Linux (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] Merulox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I switch distro once I start feeling that my current installation is too bloated and requires a heavy cleaning Which is why I switched to nixos, so that I canβt bloat my system up with packages I eventually forget about permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) NixOS is so incredibly stable it's crazy. Even if my entire computer implodes I can just download my couple config files off github and get exactly the same system on a different computer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Well, you still need to backup and restore your persistent drive, but that's trivial too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah, I use Impermanence and all my important things and dotfiles are synced between my devices. Other stuff is just games and stuff I can reinstall anytime. permalink fedilink source parent [β] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I'm going to try Nix as my desktop OS. The only thing stopping me up until now is I like running the same OS that I run on servers (Debian). Do you think there's a good use case for Nix on servers? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you're able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) NixOS is so incredibly stable it's crazy. Even if my entire computer implodes I can just download my couple config files off github and get exactly the same system on a different computer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Well, you still need to backup and restore your persistent drive, but that's trivial too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah, I use Impermanence and all my important things and dotfiles are synced between my devices. Other stuff is just games and stuff I can reinstall anytime. permalink fedilink source parent [β] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I'm going to try Nix as my desktop OS. The only thing stopping me up until now is I like running the same OS that I run on servers (Debian). Do you think there's a good use case for Nix on servers? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you're able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Well, you still need to backup and restore your persistent drive, but that's trivial too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah, I use Impermanence and all my important things and dotfiles are synced between my devices. Other stuff is just games and stuff I can reinstall anytime. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah, I use Impermanence and all my important things and dotfiles are synced between my devices. Other stuff is just games and stuff I can reinstall anytime. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I'm going to try Nix as my desktop OS. The only thing stopping me up until now is I like running the same OS that I run on servers (Debian). Do you think there's a good use case for Nix on servers? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you're able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you're able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config. permalink fedilink source parent
