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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’m just tacking on to the existing responses, but for me, the huge benefit I get that no one else has hit on yet is automated setup of partitions, LUKS, ZFS on root, and zswap (mostly via disko).

https://github.com/nix-community/disko

It’s sooooo much nicer than wiring those up by hand.

And I have a custom USB iso based on the nixos installer, with has an ssh server running by default, with my pubkey already wired up. So I can plug in a USB to a new device, boot from it, run recon remotely to figure out how I want to set up the disks, then run a full install from my laptop over SSH with a single command (via nixos-anywhere).

https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

NixOS is an absolute gem.

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