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What exactly is the use case of NixOS? (piefed.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip
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I'm an Arch user (CachyOS now) and I've gotten used to doing things a certain way. Anyway, I have another computer with a fresh Windows 11 install. After literally 5 hours of troubleshooting, I still could not get the fuckass wi-fi drivers installed. People who say Windows is easy clearly never had to install it. I eventually said fuck it and decided to install NixOS. I'm used to Arch based distros so I wanted to try something new. I'm very confused about how it works and what it's intended use case is. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to install micro permanently. I did RTFM but It didn't really help. I guess I'm hoping someone can share some words of encouragement and/or convince and/or bully me into sticking with this weird ass distro.

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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I've been running NixOS for about a year now (servers+desktop+laptop) and I love it!

I config sometging once, push it to Git and all other devices follow.

Everything is in one place and everything uses NixOS/HomeManager modules, so everything is configured using the same syntax/language.

It is quite difficult to get started with, but it is so nice when you get the hang of it.

Also, I work in IT with declarative tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. NixOS lets me treat my machines the same way with declarative code, so it is actually pretty intuitive to me.

I am in no way an expert on the matter, but I will gladly try to answer any questions you may have :)

NixOS really is my endgame OS and after having tried many different distros, this is what I will be sticking with for the forseable future :)

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