0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoArch and Gentoo users reading about NixOSsh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years ago…to get a working config, you need to learn a whole new programming language and figure out the tweaks for each package you want to install, so I’d argue the journey is just as long
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoLike everything with Nix, you pay a little more upfront to get a great experience later.
minus-squaremojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoNixOS sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
minus-squaremojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoYa, sucks when Tailwind goes out of style and now have to learn CSS again.
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agothat’s why I only use my computer with raw system calls, shell is bloat
minus-squarestoicmaverick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoYou guys use an OS? I just push the electrons around my motherboard manually with a little magnet on a toothpick.
minus-squarearf@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoSystemd sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
minus-squaremojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoYou keep my init system (and resolver, and timekeeper, and task scheduler, and container manager, and …) out your f**king mouth!
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThat’s why you go for GNU Guix instead, since it’s the same kind of concept but configured using the Guile Scheme you already know. (You do already know Scheme, right?)
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThat’s not true. You have to get PhD in functional programming first.
minus-squareTelex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoWait, are you saying my degree has real world use?
…to get a working config, you need to learn a whole new programming language and figure out the tweaks for each package you want to install, so I’d argue the journey is just as long
Like everything with Nix, you pay a little more upfront to get a great experience later.
NixOS sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
Nix is to Linux what Tailwind is to CSS
Ya, sucks when Tailwind goes out of style and now have to learn CSS again.
that’s why I only use my computer with raw system calls, shell is bloat
You guys use an OS? I just push the electrons around my motherboard manually with a little magnet on a toothpick.
Systemd sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
You keep my init system (and resolver, and timekeeper, and task scheduler, and container manager, and …) out your f**king mouth!
That’s why you go for GNU Guix instead, since it’s the same kind of concept but configured using the Guile Scheme you already know.
(You do already know Scheme, right?)
That’s not true.
You have to get PhD in functional programming first.
Wait, are you saying my degree has real world use?