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What distro(s) do you use?
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I personally use NixOS (unstable) on my PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop (didn't have time to switch it to NixOS).
I also use NixOS on my Pi 4
Interesting. Any particular reason/advantage over using Raspbian?
Well, I can have the config for the Pi in my dotfiles repo, just like my PC. Also, it's reproducible and declarative, so if my SD card breaks, I can install NixOS on another one, switch to my config, and be up and running again.
That does sound mighty convenient. Looked it up, feels like HashiCorp Terraform but for an OS. I'm definitely switching at some point.