As the title implies, should I do it? I love Arch so far, and I can fix most issues that pop out. However, I sometimes wish to start fresh without too much hassle, but I get a feeling NixOS isn’t as mature as Arch.

Have any of you used both, and if so, what do you miss from Arch? What are you grateful for in NixOS?

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get why everyone says it’s so bad, you get a decent starter config and to install stuff you just add one line to it

    Installed it bare metal on a Friday and was up and running by Monday

    By no means a master of it but the config is pretty intuitive generally speaking

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough to be honest when I jumped in I dual booted with windows so always had a safety net (also was experimenting on my laptop before moving to my PC)

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          1 year ago

          I never went back to windows. I had my stuff in a separate partition so when I went back to Fedora or Arch, I had my stuff there

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            1 year ago

            Tbh same, I only ever went back to windows when I absolutely needed something to work immediately for something work related (my manager does not have much patience for my antics with technology when it doesn’t go 100% smoothly)

            My PC which is now purely for personal use I just completely wiped and replaced, didn’t even keep the old disk contents because it was full of years worth of windows usage detrius

    • fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s true for the configuration.nix. I still cannot fully wrap my head around using Nix Flakes for managing my nixos configuration, home manager and overlaying or creating packages. My setup so far works, but I still don’t feel like I fully understand it.

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        1 year ago

        That’s more or less the same boat I’m in tbh. I’m just starting to play around with using shells for development environments