Why you should try Nix - Jean Sidharta

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37398554

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Oh, I didn't know nix was a package manager that's available in debian. I might try it some day. Fortunately it's not necessary to install it with sh < (curl) as recommended there.

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I did a lot of distro hopping, but settled on OpenSUSE for a lot of reasons, but somebody suggested nixOS as I was sorting out a distro for my wife's laptop.

She is bad with tech, and her 2010 windows laptop was making her lose her temper; with how slow and intrusive stuff was when she wanted to do work, and updates altering things. Her wants were: speed and consistency, even if it died she wanted it back exactly the same.

So I setup nix, read about editting the config and rebuilds, and pretty quickly had a config that included zoom for her meetings, libreoffice for her client stuff, and browser. Had to add a hardware line for the WiFi card. Rebuild, and it is exactly everything she needs.

It is peppy like my brand new work Windows computer.
Which is both a praise to nixOS and a slam against Windows degradation.

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