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> I recently switched to NixOS and have essentially configured my OS from scratch in less than a week That doesn't exactly scream ease of use.

bamboozled 7y ago
You can get up and running in probably a day (you need to learn a few things), I'm guessing what they mean is, configured exactly how they want. I had a similar experience with NixOS and I love it.
- cttet 7y ago
  And getting things like bluetooth/screen light adjustment/and a list of annoying things right on a laptop.
chongli 7y ago
NixOS isn’t easy to use. It’s very powerful though. It gives you the ability to configure your whole OS, including all of your packages and configurations, in one declarative file. It reproduces the entire installation from this file in a way that’s fully immutable and hash-perfect (with minimal building from source). Very cool.
- downerending 7y ago
  It does sound pretty awesome. Maybe I'll try a hit with VirtualBox.
  - sjagoe 7y ago
    I tried that initially but never spent enough time using it in a VM to really learn it. In the end, I just decided to take the plunge and set it up as my main OS after a year of procrastinating around trying it out. I've been using it for about 4 years now, and wouldn't go back to a traditional distro. And finally, 4 years on, I just set up a new laptop and it was much easier than its ever been before. I just had to copy over my existing nix config, and nix built out the whole configuration and my user environment (with home-manager [0]). It's always been a bit of a pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed. [0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
- nialv7 7y ago
  > in one declarative file Which is not always up to date, and exposes all the available options. I found myself often need to dig into nixpkgs and add missing options myself during the time I was trying out NixOS. And believe me, that wasn't a pleasant experience.
  - takeda 7y ago
    Not sure if it was available when you tried, but this is useful when configuring, it is processed from nixpkgs and indexes all options that are available: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html
- rudolph9 7y ago
  What he said.

bamboozled 7y ago

You can get up and running in probably a day (you need to learn a few things), I'm guessing what they mean is, configured exactly how they want. I had a similar experience with NixOS and I love it.

cttet 7y ago
And getting things like bluetooth/screen light adjustment/and a list of annoying things right on a laptop.

chongli 7y ago

NixOS isn’t easy to use. It’s very powerful though. It gives you the ability to configure your whole OS, including all of your packages and configurations, in one declarative file. It reproduces the entire installation from this file in a way that’s fully immutable and hash-perfect (with minimal building from source). Very cool.

downerending 7y ago
It does sound pretty awesome. Maybe I'll try a hit with VirtualBox.
- sjagoe 7y ago
  I tried that initially but never spent enough time using it in a VM to really learn it. In the end, I just decided to take the plunge and set it up as my main OS after a year of procrastinating around trying it out. I've been using it for about 4 years now, and wouldn't go back to a traditional distro. And finally, 4 years on, I just set up a new laptop and it was much easier than its ever been before. I just had to copy over my existing nix config, and nix built out the whole configuration and my user environment (with home-manager [0]). It's always been a bit of a pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed. [0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
nialv7 7y ago
> in one declarative file Which is not always up to date, and exposes all the available options. I found myself often need to dig into nixpkgs and add missing options myself during the time I was trying out NixOS. And believe me, that wasn't a pleasant experience.
- takeda 7y ago
  Not sure if it was available when you tried, but this is useful when configuring, it is processed from nixpkgs and indexes all options that are available: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html
rudolph9 7y ago
What he said.