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I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily d

I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily driver and make myself learn this. It's been a lot of fun. Like, Dwarf Fortress kinds of fun. The kind of fun where when I first looked at it I thought it was insane inscrutable nonsense, and now I kind of wonder what happened to me that it's kind of making sense now. The kind of fun where I keep telling myself I just want to make some tiny little thing work, but actually I find excuses to rabbit hole down a bunch of different pathways and find amazingness under every stone. The kind of fun where I know better than to try to count how many hours I've spent on this now. Except unlike Dwarf Fortress, I feel like things are actually improving over time instead of shambling ever-onwards towards an inevitable downfall. So I guess maybe it's more like the kind of fun the very first time I installed Linux and didn't know my way around anything. I'm surprised how much I enjoy customizing things now. I always thought of my desktops sort of like betta fish before -- like, I've taken care of them, but also known better than to get too attached. Eventually the reformat is gonna come, and I'm never gonna set things up QUITE like I had it before. That's definitely not true now. I could start from scratch and be up and running with my entire suite of applications, themes, add-ons and configurations in no time, because it's all just a git repo of nixfiles.

pxc 2y ago
> I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily driver and make myself learn this. It's been a lot of fun. Like, Dwarf Fortress kinds of fun. The kind of fun where when I first looked at it I thought it was insane inscrutable nonsense, and now I kind of wonder what happened to me that it's kind of making sense now. The kind of fun where I keep telling myself I just want to make some tiny little thing work, but actually I find excuses to rabbit hole down a bunch of different pathways and find amazingness under every stone. The kind of fun where I know better than to try to count how many hours I've spent on this now. That's absolutely what diving in with NixOS was like for me. Wonderful description. :) > I'm surprised how much I enjoy customizing things now. I always thought of my desktops sort of like betta fish before -- like, I've taken care of them, but also known better than to get too attached. Eventually the reformat is gonna come, and I'm never gonna set things up QUITE like I had it before. That's definitely not true now. Yes. NixOS makes customization feel more worth it than other operating systems can! I first heard it expressed best in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA

pxc 2y ago

> I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily driver and make myself learn this. It's been a lot of fun. Like, Dwarf Fortress kinds of fun. The kind of fun where when I first looked at it I thought it was insane inscrutable nonsense, and now I kind of wonder what happened to me that it's kind of making sense now. The kind of fun where I keep telling myself I just want to make some tiny little thing work, but actually I find excuses to rabbit hole down a bunch of different pathways and find amazingness under every stone. The kind of fun where I know better than to try to count how many hours I've spent on this now. That's absolutely what diving in with NixOS was like for me. Wonderful description. :) > I'm surprised how much I enjoy customizing things now. I always thought of my desktops sort of like betta fish before -- like, I've taken care of them, but also known better than to get too attached. Eventually the reformat is gonna come, and I'm never gonna set things up QUITE like I had it before. That's definitely not true now. Yes. NixOS makes customization feel more worth it than other operating systems can! I first heard it expressed best in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA