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The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.
Nailing this regex will save me hours.
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).
she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here… she should double-check gender.nix
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it’s just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind…
… right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she’s the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
“Gender assigned at birth” would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.
I believe it’s because they’re not using flakes. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.
I guess that’s why the man is broken
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.
So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…
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!
Rip
They’ll find her years later, twitching and mumbling, buried under a printout of https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn’t know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don’t require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
Quick, be fast and setup a binary cache so that he can substitute nixos.org with you.
Trust me, it’s the only way.
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
How? Please share dot file
Dont need to with Nix lol.
When it launches it has your previous configs locked and loaded (provided you dont nuke them)
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!
Debian here, it’s true, I have both their wives
Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.
Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only
minormajor version conflicts
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
Overdone stuff for a joke in a community called linuxmemes? Unpossible!
I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
Ok color me intrigued, what is
evt? I googled a bit and didn’t find anythingEverything
But yeah, being super personalised is the joke. I don’t see many NixOS users typing out
nixos-rebuildoutside of making tutorials.
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don’t know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
We will be hiking together until then.
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.
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
Between that and never having the money to upgrade my computer I finally had to give up Gentoo after nearly 20 years of use. I keep wanting to go back but its just too painful and I just can’t bite the bullet to do a binary install.
I’m pretty sure you could still find a decent thinkpad from ebay that would surprise you how cheap they are
my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is
i feel bad for her
Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I’ll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.
Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.
Also, not tinkering when you don’t want to tinker.
Immutables are too hard for me. I prefer the simplicity of apt.
That’s one of those things I’m trying to figure out. They’re actually a bit more complicated than your regular distro. They’re not that bad, but my mind is not there yet. I need some time to dig into it and learn things. I’m definitely switching eventually.
As someone who started with Slackware in the 90s, it took me a while too.
I switched over to Bazzite from Windows 10 on my main PC because I wanted something I could game on. But, even though most of my games work great on it, I haven’t played that many because I ended up just happy to have a Linux system I could use for projects I’d been putting off.
It’s true that if you’re used to a plain Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora system, you have to do some things differently. But, in exchange you basically never have to worry about installing a package because there’s been a vulnerability discovered or something.
The happy medium I found is using distrobox on Bazzite. Inside a distrobox, you can use apt or whatever to manage the software you want. You can even export things from the distrobox to the main OS – like, say you installed a GUI editor in the distrobox, you can have it available as if it were a normal app in the main immutable OS.
Distrobox might help you switch if you’re feeling hesitant. OTOH, if you want to fully grok the system before switching, or want to be able to customize the images you’re installing, that can take a while to figure out.
Man, distrobox confused the shit out of me the other day. I admit, I didn’t feel like digging and learning it. I just let it go once I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I want to install bazzite in a VM and mess with it for a while until I made sure I know what’s going and also make sure that I can get all of my programs. It’s going to be all flatpak and I am not a big fan of flatpaks. I know people swear by them, but I avoid them like the plague
Why don’t you like flatpaks? I’ve basically never had any issues with them, but maybe I will in the future.
As for distrobox, what’s the confusion? Were you trying to do something advanced? Or, was there an issue with mapping things between the host and distrobox? I haven’t really pushed the envelope, but the only issue I’ve had is that I wanted my shell history to be different between the distrobox and the host, so I had to tweak my zsh startup files to detect if I was in a distrobox and save history in a different place.
Aliases.making.probably
Ummm…
I use Arch btw 🙃
Take care of that dude’s wife.
