Yeah. For reproducibility I still use nix. Especially when I have to share my dev environment with a team or to spin up identical servers.
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Yeah there's a lot of state accumulation especially in home folder which I clear manually from time to time.
In Nixos you can configure the impermanence module to clear unwanted state on your system and make it a "fresh install" on every reboot.
🎉 Same! I've been looking at Ashos (meta distribution) or just using btrfs snapshots to rollback when I break something.
You mean in terms of how fast it feels? I have never heard anyone saying this before. Can you share some details and perhaps some tips to improve performance on Nixos?
What hardware do you run Nixos on and do you modify and rebuild a lot of packages on nixpkgs?
Arch and void are very similar except void has a smaller community and much smaller set of packages to install. Arch also has better documentation.
Void is considered more lightweight because it uses runit instead of systemd and a choice to use musl instead of glibc.
I feel for most, arch is a better choice of the three.
Tuner seems pretty cool. I use ytmdl to search and download download music from YouTube music.
Oh yea that's a good one. There's also Zellij which tries to be a modern replacement for tmux
The whole os and all settings will be in one config file. So you can replicate your os in a different machine easily.
When you change the config and rebuild the system, a new generation is created. You can easily rollback to previous generations if you mess up. So it pretty much never breaks.
Nixos also has the largest and most updated package repository. It also has features that are very handy for programming like reproducible shell environments etc.
Of course this is just scratching the surface. The learning curve is insane. If you are a functional programmer. Nixos will suit really good.
Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.
You can achieve similar results with ansible. But I like nix better. It is reproducible. You can think of it like docker.
Nix is also declarative and has rollback. Also, nixos-rebuild is idempotent.