Right now my server is Proxmox/Debian/Docker and I've been waiting for it to blow up so I can finally have an excuse to put time into migrating to something better, but after years of barely touching it it still works lol.

This is my first time hearing about NASty. Right now I run NixOS in a VPS with some basic services and have it managed with OpenTofu and for that it works great, but when I migrate my main setup I think I'm going to do a slightly different setup that's still Nix-managed but uses k3s on top of VMs instead of just using NixOS services on the host.

I mostly use NixOS on my laptop right now and really like it, but I might start putting everything in VMs there also, and if that works well use the same configuration between my laptop and server for that.

I'm personally very happy with my proxmox based server(s). I'm using community scripts for many of the setups of actual services. Over all, it's low maintenance and if I'm having issues it isn't with the host system. Not once did a system update cause a failed boot after.

That being said, NASty sounds rather promising. I doubt I'll switch over, but it might at least make for a fun experiment. And being nix based is rather nice for reproducibility.

No experience with NASty, but:

Had a server die on me about a year ago and wanted more Infra as Code. Tried Fedora CoreOS first, but the cycle was constantly creating a new USB bootable, it was just a bad fit for me.

Switched to NixOS and definitely still not an expert, but it's simple enough that 4 machines are running it. I really enjoy it. Already migrated a critical machine, where I basically used a second machine for A/B testing, to ensure minimal downtime and rollback possibility.

My deploy story is still kinda jank. I just looked at what worked and didn't read too much about the internals. Using deploy-rs and falling back to nixos-anywhere when necessary.

Some new services were really basically as easy as adding services.example.enabled = true; and deploying.

Hope it helps an good luck!

This is the first I've heard of NASty. Thanks for the new rabbit hole!

Genuine question: what's obnoxious about Fedora? TIA

Why not truenas?