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It’s that time of year, time to blow up the home server! (sh.itjust.works)
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me and fedora have been boxing for a while now and I’m thinking I want to try something else after I finish designing my next home server case for it.

I’m considering NASty https://github.com/nasty-project/nasty as it’s doing pretty much everything out of box I want to do with this next one already, and even though it’s young, it’s build on nixOS, which I consider mature at this point.

But I have no experience with nixOS. It sounds like it’s a less obnoxious form of fedora coreOS. Any opinions?

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[–] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

No experience with NASty, but:

Had a server die on me about a year ago and wanted more Infra as Code. Tried Fedora CoreOS first, but the cycle was constantly creating a new USB bootable, it was just a bad fit for me.

Switched to NixOS and definitely still not an expert, but it's simple enough that 4 machines are running it. I really enjoy it. Already migrated a critical machine, where I basically used a second machine for A/B testing, to ensure minimal downtime and rollback possibility.

My deploy story is still kinda jank. I just looked at what worked and didn't read too much about the internals. Using deploy-rs and falling back to nixos-anywhere when necessary.

Some new services were really basically as easy as adding services.example.enabled = true; and deploying.

Hope it helps an good luck!

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