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.
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.
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.
I only had to reinstall my desktop once due to hard drive failure. My laptop’s main use is testing out other distros, so I frequently put nixOS back on there when I need the laptop for a weekend away.
I’d imagine it also being great for servers, but due to proxmox templates and snapshots, I’ve never needed to reinstall there.
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
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.
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.
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.
I only had to reinstall my desktop once due to hard drive failure. My laptop’s main use is testing out other distros, so I frequently put nixOS back on there when I need the laptop for a weekend away.
I’d imagine it also being great for servers, but due to proxmox templates and snapshots, I’ve never needed to reinstall there.