Btw, I don't use Arch

When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just... didn't see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.

The config file for managing basically the whole OS is amazing to begin with. Also the fact that the system is freshly rebuilt every update is neat too. And there is something where if a certain package requires a certain version of a library it will be installed alongside the current version just incase. Avoiding dependency hell.

About troubleshooting, the official wiki for nixos got made this year so it finally will start to make sense to new users. I used to use arch because of their amazing wiki but now I use nixos since there is an active effort to make it easier.

wiki.nixos.org
- I use Gentoo btw
I've been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.
I think the point apart from declaring the whole system is that Nix saves changes to config files, this eliminates the concept of .pacnew / .pacsave.

You didn't even care to relabel the axes, I don't trust you.

It was about dwarf fortress, i refuse to belive otherwise
- I vaguely remember it being about EvE Online, totally possible it was repurposed.
- what about rogue-likes on insane? people falling from the cliff sure looks like that to me

The axis don't make sense.

The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress

The original comic was very accurate
- No, the black line is EVE Online. There could have been an edit replacing it with Dwarf Fortress, but the original is definitely about EVE Online.
- I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it's cheap to pick up...yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I'll ever be ready for that, haha.

I don't think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.

I don't like Anduril either, but what's wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?
- I'm with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it's a surveillance company.

Windows is decidedly the green line, Debian the red.

Was thinking same. I always think windows is the easiest to get used from beginning, but that could be cause windows was the first operating system i was dealing with. Playing with the amiga 3000 could be the start, but there i was only 5
- Windows XP wasn't exactly intuitive to me and now only I know what my keybinds for Hyprland are so um maybe you're right. Honestly switching to Ubuntu made things a lot easier for me than they were on windows because it was easier to change settings and similar just by using terminal commands rather than a weird gui or not at all.
100% true

Does this graph mean what it is supposed to mean for the joke to work? The black line means I learn much quicker with less time investment, i.e. it is easier than all the others.

No it means that it requires much more skill earlier in the progression.
- That is a common misunderstanding of how learning curves work. A steep learning curve means your skill increases more rapidly with the invested time. That means the subject is easier or more intuitive.
- You nearly had it. The black line starts higher at "gaining skill" so it requires more skill to start learning but after short time you are gaining much more skill in the same time.

I use guix cause having an entire OS centered around Scheme is cool and based.

Wearing out the parentheses keys on my keyboard

Do you happen to know if KDE is already available there?
- KDE is not, Plasma is:
  
  https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Desktop-Services

I've been searching for so long for a way to have my software and configs and project deps tracked in a way that doesn't have me setting things up every time I switch to a new machine or--worse--opening an old project. I found some things that get me most off the way there like docker, rtx/mise, direnv, stow, or the package manager for whatever language I'm working in at a time. Still, nothing quite does what I need.

I tried our NixOS and have it on three machines as well as Nix on WSL. It took a while for me to figure it out, especially moving to flakes and separating user config out to home-manager. But it was fun enough to try and fail and fail and fail then succeed that I kept going. I think it might be what I'm looking for. I was able to set up a new machine by just cloning a repo and any time I cd into a project on NixOS or a remote Linux server or even Windows with WSL, everything is just ready for me. Do wish it were fully POSIX compliant, though.

I know this is from more of a developer perspective, but even for gaming and graphics I've never had an easier time getting Nvidia drivers set up.

I promise I'm not shilling. I still have a lot to learn. I think I made it past the cliff on this meme but I might be surprised.

No temple OS?

Joking aside, has anyone legitimately tried to port an app to TempleOS, just for fun?
- Dude I hate you. You got my curiosity. I'll have to look into it. Damn it.

That's exactly how nixos went for me you feel like you understand it and then went to go and look at old configs after awhile and was like what in the fuck and rewrote the whole thing but once you figure it out it's pretty easy to keep learning

For anyone worried about the Nix drama, a fork has already happened.

You can find it under lix.systems.

Thank you, was wondering what happened there.
- There's been a couple forks but that's not all. They are made votes to massively restructure their governance system. Things are looking up on the main nixos branch!

Yeah, no. Windows is the easy starter but the more you get experience, the more you fight the system.
Or you go the Linux approach and set your tooling up from start via third-parties from Chocolatey/Scoop. Guess the red line represents this.

NixOS documentation refusing to generate pages like readthedocs can drive a man insane...

Anti Commercial-AI license

NixOS documentation refusing to generate pages like readthedocs can drive a man insane...

One day, one day soon I will install nixOS on my ThinkPad. Til then I will continue using silverblue like a pleb

LFS would be a much better fit.

Woohoo I'm almost driving the bulldozer... Almost

I have no idea how Windows is the red line in this, it should be the green but even steeper

After using Silverblue for some time I tried to use Arch again, and pacman had failed at installation process. A easy fix for that is to be like: 1. Get list of all the installed packages; 2. Install all these packages again with --force. But after using immutables the situation is just meh.

And also now I dislike package managers which require to be used with sudo, and cannot ask for permissions with polkit.

So. BTW, I don't use Arch.