Just Draw (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I use Gentoo. I very much warn you against using Gentoo.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Same for nix. It's great and awesome, but you need to know that for 6months it will be pain.

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  • Both NixOS and Gentoo are also addictive as hell, you poke just a couple of things β€” the next thing you know it's 3 AM two weeks later and you are recompiling your whole system trying to make it work with Wild linker or something along those lines, laughing maniacally.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Using NixOS was when I finally felt like I started to understand Linux. I don't think I could go back lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I already knew Linux. What it made me learn is systemd. And I'll say it without shame, I like systemd. I know it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy but it's just semantics.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    honestly, systemd isn't that bad. I'm finishing some free labs for the CompTIA Linux+ sysadmin course and learning how to compose bash scripts into services is going to be great for my homelab.

    I completely ditched windows at home in early 2020 and used fedora until last year when I took the plunge into NixOS. I knew how to do things in Linux, but I wanted to understand the underlying system structure. NixOS helped pull back the veil a bit.

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