I started to play around with NixOS two days ago and I’m very impressed how easy everything is and how fast and stable the system is. My only concern is that it capsulates all the “real” setup steps and I fear that I’ll end up with less controll over my system because I don’t really know whats going on under the hood. Please don’t be mad at me, I just want to have other peoples opinion on this.

The coolest thing would be if there was some kind of journal where I can see, what exactly happened based on my nix files

  • mister_drgnB
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    1 year ago

    If you’re worried NixOS is too easy, that concern will quickly pass.

    • ZunoJOPB
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      1 year ago

      No worries, I was past that point after I added a bunch of packages but that is not what I mean. My concern is that the knowledge is not transferable to any other linux distribution. When I switched from debian to arch most of the stuff I knew was still usable and I just had to look if file locations changed and had to learn the pacman specific stuff. But with NixOS there is almost no carry over. Thats why I would want a summary of all the stuff Nix does based on my nix files. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very excited about NixOS because the reproducability will likely make my life a lot easier