Comment by rekoros
2 hours ago
After using NixOS for a bit and eventually learning to rely on it, life without it seems inconceivably complex
2 hours ago
After using NixOS for a bit and eventually learning to rely on it, life without it seems inconceivably complex
I love the slightly weird learning curve on NixOS where initially it seems incredibly complex writing this weird functional programming language for every change you want to apply to your system, then over time it clicks and you end up in a place where any operating system that doesn't define everything in a weird functional programming language seems incredibly complex. I read blog posts about doing things on other distros now and I'm left thinking that an 800 word set of instructions would be 25 lines of Nix expressions.
yes, exactly!
it's like reading instructions for using a GUI program (open this dialog, click this checkbox, fill in this value) vs copying and pasting a complex FFMpeg command