Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?

  • mrh
    4•1 year ago

    I’ve never used Arch or Nix, but I switched from Void -> Guix and have been very happy with it. It’s such a huge peace of mind to be able to have your whole system declaratively configured, package changes being atomic and generational (rollbacks so no worries about breakage), Guix shell for messing about, and being able to make your system do anything you can write in Scheme.

    That’s my daily driver. On servers so far I’ve gone with Debian Stable + Guix.

    Also Void is still a fantastic distro, and is what I would use if not for Guix/Nix.

    • Parsnip
      1•1 year ago

      Is guix pull still slow? That was a problem I and a few others had a while back.

      • mrh
        2•1 year ago

        guix pull && guix upgrade is still a bit slow, but I never thought excessively slow (definitely slower than xbps, pacman, and probably apt too).

        I guess I never thought much about it because of rollbacks, so it’s safe enough to just cron.

        • Meow.tar.gz
          3•1 year ago

          Interesting! Thank you for that. The only init systems I am really familiar with are the old system V, rc.d, OpenRC, and systemd. I actually don’t mind systemd all that much now that I’ve gotten used to it. I still don’t like the way Poettering basically forced it on us but it’s tolerable.