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That could be because doing anything in NixOS takes at least three google searches to figure out?

plaguepilled 4y ago
Well thank the benevolent lord that NixOS is the only OS you have to google stuff for. Good heavens, I could only imagine the horror of googling for a bug in Debian. A relief such a thing is nary even conceived of.
rgoulter 4y ago
I think this somewhat overstates it. I'd put it more like: NixOS is 95% wonderful, 5% very painful. Most of the things you'll want to do are simple to achieve. But, yeah, if you hit something & you're not sure what to do: there's less support for NixOS than other Linuxes; and the NixOS documentation is quite fragmented. Community resources like the wiki or blog posts may even be outdated.
- ElectricalUnion 4y ago
  My favourite resource is https://search.nixos.org/options https://search.nixos.org/options There is no other distro (maybe besides Arch and it's wiki) that shows you, say, all the 293 (channel 22.11 at 2023-03-31) places where you can mess with DNS in the entire distro.
gordian-mind 4y ago
With NixOS, you may need three google searches to solve a problem, but once it's solved it's solved. For my own use, it has been a net improvement over solving the same problems again and again on other distributions. Also: most problems are solved by a single tool (writing nix expressions), so there's a real breakthrough once you get good at it.
pxc 4y ago
I know this is a joke, and I get it, but: Generally, the NixOS feature discovery/troubleshooting/documentation workflow should not involve Google. It should start with a NixOS Options Search on search.nixos.org, where for most software projects the search will also end when you turn up a one-liner (or close to it) that enables your desired service or sets your desired configuration. Then if you need to know more, check the NixOS manual and maybe the Nixpkgs manual. If those things don't (quickly!) answer your question, then it's time to start Googling, checking the wiki, grepping through the Nixpkgs codebase, asking on Discourse or Matrix or IRC, etc. Just wanted to note that here even though you were joking because that search order is a super simple way to make using NixOS a lot more enjoyable and less painful. Most NixOS users settle on a flow similar to that over time, but if you use that search order from the start, it'll help keep things fun. :)

Well thank the benevolent lord that NixOS is the only OS you have to google stuff for. Good heavens, I could only imagine the horror of googling for a bug in Debian. A relief such a thing is nary even conceived of.

rgoulter 4y ago

I think this somewhat overstates it. I'd put it more like: NixOS is 95% wonderful, 5% very painful. Most of the things you'll want to do are simple to achieve. But, yeah, if you hit something & you're not sure what to do: there's less support for NixOS than other Linuxes; and the NixOS documentation is quite fragmented. Community resources like the wiki or blog posts may even be outdated.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
My favourite resource is https://search.nixos.org/options https://search.nixos.org/options There is no other distro (maybe besides Arch and it's wiki) that shows you, say, all the 293 (channel 22.11 at 2023-03-31) places where you can mess with DNS in the entire distro.

gordian-mind 4y ago

With NixOS, you may need three google searches to solve a problem, but once it's solved it's solved. For my own use, it has been a net improvement over solving the same problems again and again on other distributions. Also: most problems are solved by a single tool (writing nix expressions), so there's a real breakthrough once you get good at it.

pxc 4y ago

I know this is a joke, and I get it, but: Generally, the NixOS feature discovery/troubleshooting/documentation workflow should not involve Google. It should start with a NixOS Options Search on search.nixos.org, where for most software projects the search will also end when you turn up a one-liner (or close to it) that enables your desired service or sets your desired configuration. Then if you need to know more, check the NixOS manual and maybe the Nixpkgs manual. If those things don't (quickly!) answer your question, then it's time to start Googling, checking the wiki, grepping through the Nixpkgs codebase, asking on Discourse or Matrix or IRC, etc. Just wanted to note that here even though you were joking because that search order is a super simple way to make using NixOS a lot more enjoyable and less painful. Most NixOS users settle on a flow similar to that over time, but if you use that search order from the start, it'll help keep things fun. :)