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Broadly a neat idea, and props for actually following through. I am in fact a big fan of: > I'm a Nix contrarian, so naturally I wanted something to be to Dock
by yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
Broadly a neat idea, and props for actually following through. I am in fact a big fan of:
> I'm a Nix contrarian, so naturally I wanted something to be to Docker like NixOS is to Nix. docker-boot fills this niche.
not least because I've also been trying to figure out if there isn't a way to do nearly everything nix does with way better ease of use using docker or something similar.
That said,
> It also drives libostree and Nix users mad, because it can be used to try out a new DE or even a whole OS without polluting the host filesystem or spawning a virtual machine. The video in the README shows me trying out KDE + SDDM from a host running GNOME + GDM3.
is needlessly combative and also not really a comparison that makes your solution look good; neither of those options "pollute" the host filesystem, they at most cache results thereby saving work until you tell them to garbage collect at which point it goes away (and this also means that they're not limited to the size of RAM), and neither of them needs a VM in order to cleanly transition from one configuration to another.
- purplesyringa 3y ago> is needlessly combative and also not really a comparison that makes your solution look good Sorry, wasn't my intention. I didn't mean libostree or Nix pollute the filesystem, I meant that installing a DE on a typical mainstream OS like Debian would pollute the fs. I have nothing against libostree/Nix users :)
- licebmi__at__ 3y agoI read this as a tongue in cheek take on isolation of your os. I mean, the ability of nix to install stuff isolated from the rest of the os is a point I make about stuff that nix can do. But I wouldn’t be mad as it’s not the only thing it can do :-)