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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
(infosec.pub)
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.
NixOS is the most boring distro I've ever used.
I configured everything across multiple machines and now it just works.
How, tho?
Seriously, how do you even get started? It's like the tutorials are all, "This is a basic 'Hello World' module/flake. Now, you are a master." I would love to figure it out, but I need a little more hand holding.
I HIGHLY recommend forking a nix-config that uses flakes, home-manager, and whatever window manager you prefer. Since Nix is so versatile (and the documentation of flakes and home-manager are BAD), I found it absolutely crucial to reuse a well-architected config and slowly modify it in a VM to sketch out my config until it was stable enough to try on a real machine.
Yeah, I've had the same experience multiple times, people have been raving about it but I can't find a tutorial that is as noob-friendly as I'd need it.
https://christitus.com/nixos-explained/
Sure I guess if you can manage to get everything to work in the first place which involves following sixteen different guides across twenty-three different websites all of which with conflicting information.