I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.

  • arjache@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    NixOS. If I’m going to invest that much effort to configure a system I don’t want to have to put up with systemd.

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      10 months ago

      Same here. I really wanted to use it but it doesn’t offer much over Universal Blue

      If i really need reproducibility I’ll use nix on my home

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      10 months ago

      I’ve found nixos is perfect for me since I like how precisely I can configure it.

      Oddly enough, I’ve had a decent chunk of my only barely technical friend group switch to it for the opposite reason. They all just copypaste snippets of config between each other, and if something breaks they just go back a revision. I doubt any of them spend much time configuring anything. It really is the perfect idiot proof distro and I don’t normally see people talking about that side of it

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I think Nix is a good concept but I feel like 99% of the config work could be managed by the OS itself and a GUI to change everything else. I also feel like flakes should be the default, not this weird multiple systems thing they have. I also wish most apps would have a sandbox built in, because nix apps would then rival flatpak and, if ported to Windows, become a universal package manager. Overall good concept but not there yet.