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My garbage can is a few meters away from my desk. That's too far -- guess I'll just litter on the floor -- it's more convenient. ... but soon the trash builds u
by eisbaw 3y ago
My garbage can is a few meters away from my desk.
That's too far -- guess I'll just litter on the floor -- it's more convenient.
... but soon the trash builds up.
Upgrade the whole system? Dangerous.
Upgraded and it kinda works, but you'd like to roll-back? Though luck.
NixOS is definitely not for everybody - perhaps Developer workstation is the most tricky to get right. But for production server use, the repeatability is great.
Nix ofc is agnostic of NixOS, is is generally my preferred way of getting packages.
I also happen to love when software makes too-wide assumptions and break. That is generally software poorly written and to avoid.
These side-effects and mutations cross-product with each other so much that computers have become failure dumpsters.
- rgoulter 3y ago> ... perhaps Developer workstation is the most tricky to get right. ... I think the biggest 'risk' is there's a long tail of stuff a developer might want to do. The more niche some task is, the more likely it is that the program you're trying to use makes assumptions about things in Linux being where things in Linux usually are. But. I think 'developer workstation' is the use case most likely to benefit from NixOS desktop use. -- For servers, I think 'running containers' is an almost ubiquitous way of deploying applications.