Comment by anttiharju

13 hours ago

re: on feeling like a janitor

I tried running various Linux distros on my desktop some years ago and definitely agree on the crap-out experience and having to reinstall. Eventually settled on macOS and it's been okay.

The game changer for me has been Nix. It works on macOS. I have had coworkers use it on Ubuntu. I am soon planning to switch to NixOS.

People complain about the syntax but honestly AI gets you around that. You will still do janitorial work, but you mostly only need to do it once.

2 comments

anttiharju

rounce 12 hours ago

  {
    nix.gc = {
      automatic = true;
      dates = "weekly";          
      options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
    };
  }

anttiharju 10 hours ago

that is neat indeed. With "only once" I mean figuring out the desired config