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The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.
I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn’t know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don’t require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here… she should double-check gender.nix
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she’s the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it!
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it’s just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind…
… right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…
It is amazing, the power of a mature immutable OS, is amazing. Frankly though Ive found the reality of nix the exact opposite: because everything is configured in the one place, updates, and changes in general are so easy and risk free (rollbacks a breeeeze). So i save more time than lose tbh.
Modules and flakes are next level.
Configure ALL THE THINGS!
Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!
I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke
Overdone stuff for a joke in a community called linuxmemes? Unpossible!
Debian here, it’s true, I have both their wives
You can
nixos-rebuildher, you have the technology.“They may be unstable but at least they notice when I’m in the room” -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don’t know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
We will be hiking together until then.
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
I’ve used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.
I went back to Arch.
Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.
I clicked on the first link to the options appendix and noped right the fuck out.
That’s a level of involvement I reserve for activities where I either get paid 100€+/h, or otherwise support my family.And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Which I don’t do more than once every couple of years.
And then I click “next” a bunch of times on Debian, and copy /home over from my backup.You should try Guix!
I don’t think I will.
And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Well, that isn’t the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.
that isn’t the first thing I’d mention
…well, what is? The logo looks nice.
For me, the factors were:
- the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
- easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
- the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
- as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
- the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows
I’m a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I’ve attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.
I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. “Ok, honey, I’ll be in the living room watching my shows.”
This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.
When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I’d come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She’d call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.
She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.
Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you’re doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don’t know or understand her struggle.Running truenas and Plex is an lol
Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I’m not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn’t where it is now, but also because again, I’m not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.
Just surprised after you wrote all that for running various difficult methods of Linux to then say you run TrueNas and Plex. I think Jellyfin on a Linux server is a better and easier option and would be familiar to you.
Ah yeah, the family. That’s the biggest reason for Plex I guess
Fair, like I said I’m not smart so I was only following a YouTube tutorial on how to install Arch, first time the guy was using Gnome which I didn’t like so I had to find another that showed KDE. All those experiments and even the Plex server setup were built alongside YT tutorials and an IT friend who also has a Plex server helping me with upgrades when I needed to add a SAS card for additional drives.
I’ve honestly just been winging it here lmao
I totally don’t believe you aren’t smart enough to :) your Linux desktop experience will carry over.
I personally found TrueNas too difficult for anything other than serving as a NAS.
How’re you liking KDE? I’m the opposite, I prefer gnome but want some KDE features. So mixed.
Now that I have more experience with Linux yeah I’ve gained some skills, still just scratching the surface though. TrueNAS just worked for me, maybe just due to my simple use case as a Plex server/ light network storage.
KDE Plasma has been great for me since it (as well as Cinnamon on my Mint system) are close to the Windows ecosystem I’ve been used to for decades, so it makes sense for me. Having KDE Connect out of the box helps move ROMs from my desktop to my Steam Deck without having a dingle dongle adapter for a flashdrive, works kinda like AirDrop in my experience. Pus I like the way it looks out of the box, except for the floating taskbar which I immediately locked to the bottom of the screen.
At some point I’ll setup Syncthing and automate that process for keeping game states synced up as well.
I use debian btw (why do arch users get all the fun)
Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it’s mostly like Arch right?
no, texting is packages that are chosen to make it the next version of debian stable, the version your thinking of is debian unstable/sid, which is not a standalone os but a repo that you can change to after you install either testing or stable (unstable does not refer to the stability of your system but to the stability of package compatibility as it turns debian into a rolling release system like arch) Note: you can use Bookworm (stable) and trixie (testing) repos along with sid repos but it’s not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)
I’ve noticed that more and more, interesting new projects have nix, appimg, pkg, and docker releases. So on Debian, I need to rely on non-native packages or compiling more frequently than before. Not a big issue, but it’s a new awkwardness I wasn’t used to.
