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Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`? Can you "prove" that what you use NixOS for isn'
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`?
Can you "prove" that what you use NixOS for isn't overkill?
Everything I read about NixOS is how it's reproducible or something. I set up Cargo for Rust once and never thought about it again. Where does the need to reproduce toolchains come from?
- runeks 4y ago> Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`? Sure. At work I needed access to the office VPN. I copied a snippet into a single configuration file and everything just worked. It installed the necessary executables, and set up the needed services including the config files for these services.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoHow is this different than installing Tunnelblick and pointing it to a .ovpn file (which I've done)? Could you share that Nix VPN config file example please?