I need a glass of whiskey.
lord_admiral
joined 2 months ago
The thing is
Of course, we developers like to optimize and patch source code all the time. If I am suddenly woken up at three in the morning, I will immediately open the lid of my laptop and start optimizing the code. That's our little developer secret.
You're a heretic.
No, pure DOS only
My qualifications allow me to write flake on my own, and I have even tried doing it. But after a bit of figuring it out, I set the recommended ISO, connected an unstable channel (I used 24.05 back when it wasn't mainstream), configured the whole system according to the NixOS Wiki and...used the system daily, delighted with its amazing flexibility and stability. I've described everything I don't like about the "experimental features" here
I remember Dolstra writing on his blog that flakes' are needed to "ensure the best tolerance". Haha, I ensure portability of my system with a single yusb flash drive. I think Dolstra got tired of messing around with NixOS and wanted to reduce development costs by annoyingly suggesting a switch to flakes`.
I have a few questions. If your opinion is correct and nix-channels are rotten outdated crap, why aren't they removed from use? Why hasn't any of the nix developers decided to make flakes an integral part of the system yet? I can answer these questions. Any operating system is a complete piece of software only when it follows the developers' backbone logic. At the moment when NixOS becomes a collection of flakes of varying degrees of stupidity, NixOS will cease to exist. Everyone knows and keeps silent that Dolstra started all this nonsense with flakes and home manager only to attract more defectors from other systems. There is no other reason. When a person has worked 30 years in production, he will hardly want to retrain for a new architecture and learn a rather stupid language. The home manager is a crutch written by a third-party developer and its only task is to make the /home folder look familiar to the Arch Linux user. There are no other functions. In the end, all flakes end up in configuration.nix overcomplicating and confusing the configuration. So it's much better to stop chasing other people's hyprland configs and install the recommended ISO, switch to an unstable branch and...read the Wiki.
Probably an innovative revelation of the concept of "bloat".
Yeah, you'd better hurry.