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I feel like someone tired of hearing βit works on my computerβ is how NixOS came about
I tried NixOS after many years on Debian. I cannot go back, at least not on my server.
Whyβs that?
Debian is great, I love it. But the ease of which I can repair my system when I break it is the main reason to stay. I made an error in my hardware config and I just had to use the previous generation to get back to a working state. After that, I could take my time to fix the issue without the server being down.
This whole everything is in config files is also very appealing, even though there is a lot to learn to get to the same level of knowledge (https://nix.dev/ helps there).
I know people hate hearing that line, but when I have done technical support it is highly useful to know if it works properly on other machines.
Preferably identical hardware is a good starting point, but if a solution is working fine on one machine but not another it can steer you toward other client issues.
Some user complaints of " it doesnt work on my machine" have been resolved to:
Also Docker and OVA.
Dockerβs like βwell why donβt we just ship the client your computer then?β
Dude, we got two machines shipped to us because the other team wasn't able to make the installers function. It was electromagnetic microscope simulators, so the team wasn't noobs. Got 2 fat pcs.
Worked!
What's an electromagnetic microscope simulator? For reference, I work in electron optics.
I worked on the visualisation and processing software for the Volume Scope EM ( I could only find a link to the successor here ) and the 2 PCs had the control and acquisition software.
A quite nice SEM, multi acquisition (you could designate several regions), multi energy (so scanning several depths by focusing the electron beam per layer) and of course the diamond knife π to cut each layer!
I use SEMs, BTW.
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This is actually why I installed Bazzite on my desktop and suggested it to all my friends and family who were interested in Linux.
If anyone has a problem, I'm already familiar with the distro and I can be reasonably certain that the software situation is pretty close.
As a daily-driver of nixos: basically yes.
plausible
Can you explain the nixOS part?
The party trick of NixOS is declaring your whole system in a huge config file. If you want someone to get the same system, you just throw your config at them and it works*.
The ethos of NixOS is if a program runs on one computer using Nix it will run on any computer running Nix.
Okay but like that's almost every other distro as of 2021
Itβs called Atomic Updates. The idea is every installed program is complete with no missing dependencies by ensuing each package maintains its own. Additionally an image of each program is kept so if an update goes poorly and something breaks rolling back is simple
Chances are they have wildly different setup to the point that it's useful for reference at best