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    Isn't Nixos the new Arch? Its way more byzantine, still under development, a silicon valley darling and requires learning a new DSL to install packages.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    a silicon valley darling

    is it really? i had no idea

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    Its starting to replace ansible/puppet/etc as the IAC tool of choice.

    As an example, one of the core nix maintainers works for Anduril, the AI weapons/surveillance company run by right wing shit head Palmer lucky. Ive heard they are deep in the Nix ecosystem. Here is their nixos stig config.

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  • learning a new DSL to install packages.

    This is an understatement. It's like a build system, package manager, and git repository were thrown in a blender. Those don't need to be separate systems, but boy does it help pin down what's going wrong.

    Rant:

    I noped right the fuck out after 60 minutes of trying to get nix to work as an isolated dev+build environment under Ubuntu. It probably works better under NixOS, but it's documented for this use-case too. After things stopped lining up with the docs, I realized it was going to cost me more time than it it would save.

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