• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’d been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

    Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

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      3 months ago

      This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don’t have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

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        3 months ago

        Encryption? Also you’re assuming there’s only one block device…

        assuming the person before did not just mean partitioning, but also all other storage-related tasks

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      3 months ago

      Sounds like you haven’t done it in a while. It has calamares installer now.

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      3 months ago

      How long ago did you try? You should try again, I did not have this experience setting up with the graphical installer a few weeks ago.

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      3 months ago

      it wanted me to setup my own partitions manually

      You’ve obviously never used nix, it’s GUI installer can auto configure just fine.

      When your OS AND apps are declared and stateful a lot of risk and complexity is removed. Configuring is just a bad experience with poor usability and worse documentation.

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      3 months ago

      Where do you draw the line though between tool and lifestyle? At setting up partitions (which is a trivial thing I would not mind at all)?