• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    6·
    28 days ago

    The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        0·
        28 days ago

        Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago…I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.

        (I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    28 days ago

    So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 days ago

      It is amazing, the power of a mature immutable OS, is amazing. Frankly though Ive found the reality of nix the exact opposite: because everything is configured in the one place, updates, and changes in general are so easy and risk free (rollbacks a breeeeze). So i save more time than lose tbh.

      Modules and flakes are next level.

      Configure ALL THE THINGS!

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
    2·
    28 days ago

    Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 moths 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.

  • Parafaragaramus@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      0·
      27 days ago

      I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      0·
      28 days ago

      Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.

      • Parafaragaramus@infosec.pubEnglish
        0·
        28 days ago

        Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only minor major version conflicts

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!

  • antsu@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    23 days ago

    I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it

      • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        28 days ago

        Everything

        But yeah, being super personalised is the joke. I don’t see many NixOS users typing out nixos-rebuild outside of making tutorials.

  • skibidi@lemmy.world
    0·
    28 days ago

    I’ve used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.

    I went back to Arch.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        01·
        28 days ago

        I clicked on the first link to the options appendix and noped right the fuck out.
        That’s a level of involvement I reserve for activities where I either get paid 100€+/h, or otherwise support my family.

        And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
        Which I don’t do more than once every couple of years.
        And then I click “next” a bunch of times on Debian, and copy /home over from my backup.

        • Laser@feddit.org
          0·
          28 days ago

          And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.

          Well, that wouldn’t be the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.

            • Laser@feddit.org
              0·
              28 days ago

              For me, the factors were:

              • the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
              • easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
              • the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
              • as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
              • the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows
        • Decq@lemmy.world
          0·
          28 days ago

          The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That’s just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.

          Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn’t that hard to learn, But having jto learn ust one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application’s config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.

          Now if you’re not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    28 days ago

    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.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      1·
      28 days ago

      Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you’re doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
      Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don’t know or understand her struggle.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      0·
      28 days ago

      Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux

      Soon you should convince her to marry you (if that’s your thing)

      • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I’m not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn’t where it is now, but also because again, I’m not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.

        • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
          0·
          28 days ago

          Just surprised after you wrote all that for running various difficult methods of Linux to then say you run TrueNas and Plex. I think Jellyfin on a Linux server is a better and easier option and would be familiar to you.

          Ah yeah, the family. That’s the biggest reason for Plex I guess

          • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            27 days ago

            Fair, like I said I’m not smart so I was only following a YouTube tutorial on how to install Arch, first time the guy was using Gnome which I didn’t like so I had to find another that showed KDE. All those experiments and even the Plex server setup were built alongside YT tutorials and an IT friend who also has a Plex server helping me with upgrades when I needed to add a SAS card for additional drives.

            I’ve honestly just been winging it here lmao

            • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
              0·
              27 days ago

              I totally don’t believe you aren’t smart enough to :) your Linux desktop experience will carry over.

              I personally found TrueNas too difficult for anything other than serving as a NAS.

              How’re you liking KDE? I’m the opposite, I prefer gnome but want some KDE features. So mixed.

              • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                27 days ago

                Now that I have more experience with Linux yeah I’ve gained some skills, still just scratching the surface though. TrueNAS just worked for me, maybe just due to my simple use case as a Plex server/ light network storage.

                KDE Plasma has been great for me since it (as well as Cinnamon on my Mint system) are close to the Windows ecosystem I’ve been used to for decades, so it makes sense for me. Having KDE Connect out of the box helps move ROMs from my desktop to my Steam Deck without having a dingle dongle adapter for a flashdrive, works kinda like AirDrop in my experience. Pus I like the way it looks out of the box, except for the floating taskbar which I immediately locked to the bottom of the screen.

                At some point I’ll setup Syncthing and automate that process for keeping game states synced up as well.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
      0·
      27 days ago

      Much more I think. The initial setup is the hard part, and I would recommend keeping a second computer on the side so you can keep trouble shooting when your display driver shits the bed or your wifi module decides it would like to take a nap.

      • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
        1·
        27 days ago

        I installed NixOS a couple months ago, and it’s been my smoothest Linux experience to date. Everything just worked, except I had to figure out how to open the firewall for my network drive on my home server to be discoverable and usable. But that was fairly expected. I game, so I stress test the graphics routinely. No WiFi, though, so I guess that could maybe be flaky.