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For me the appeal of NixOS is that I never have to nuke my setup. I probably used to do that about three or four times a year when I was running a Debian varian
by MarcScott 5y ago
For me the appeal of NixOS is that I never have to nuke my setup. I probably used to do that about three or four times a year when I was running a Debian variant. I'd get lazy and install a bunch of stuff globally with apt and pip and then not really know what state my machine was in, then nuke it and start afresh. With NixOS I know what state my machine is in all the time, can transfer the configs to another machine, and never have to nuke it. I don't know the Nix language, and haven't bothered to learn it. I do understand my own config files though and steal from others if I need to.
- silisili 5y agoThanks for your experience. To be clear, I never reset because I have to, just to clear things out. Despite what anyone says, things do get funky. For example, I noticed different behaviors and tools between wpa_supplicant and iwd. Deleting iwd left me in a working but half state, as the ips stayed the iwd way. That times hundreds over a year really makes things weird.
- soccerdave 5y agoExcept with nix it doesn’t make it weird. If you delete iwd and something stops working, then you can just roll back to the previous generation of the nix store that included iwd.