I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
I'm a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I've attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.
I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. "Ok, honey, I'll be in the living room watching my shows."
This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.
When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I'd come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She'd call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.
She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.
whispering into the void
That's it, that's the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife's trust, then it was over.
You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I'm intrigued.
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nixos-rebuildher, you have the technology."They may be unstable but at least they notice when I'm in the room" -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones
I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don't have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.
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I spent almost 20 years as that wife.
I feel this, but my other love is gentoo...if only I could get portage to just stop finding more package masks or multiple instances of the same package slot..it's always something that makes me do another upgrade in an attempt to troubleshoot and it's usually because I get so caught up in just fixing silly mistakes that I forget to actually get to the
eselect newsthat would have avoided the last stack of 6 compounding issues in the first place.But I love how fun it is and I'm never leaving no matter what other nix-like cults pop up
