It feels so painful to go back to ‘regular’ Linux now. I'm so concerned about config file entropy and version incompatibility that Nix has solved for me. I'm ha

It feels so painful to go back to ‘regular’ Linux now. I'm so concerned about config file entropy and version incompatibility that Nix has solved for me. I'm happy I took the Nix Pill though and completely skipped over Docker and it's often-unnecessary overhead. Nix store is a better solution to reproducible builds, and the syntax is a lot better than LISP for Guix or whatever Skylark is trying to be. Currently I'm setting up a second machine to distribute builds and share a cache on my local network. Overriding C flags Gentoo-style for better optimization is supported, but it can take a while to build--especially with LTO--as Hydra only builds for generic x86_64 so sharing optimized kernels and other software is great. I successfully got a shared znver3 LTO-optimized Linux 6.1.19 kernel with ZFS support yesterday! I just wish I could have built in parallel the kernel on the faster PC and the ZFS stuff on the slower one and resynced the build input derivations when it was finished after running `nixos-rebuild switch --flake ..`. For the future, I hope distributed Nix caches become the norm like BitTorrent and we can all share optimized builds.