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How often do you hop distros? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by fiddlestix@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Just curious to see what people are up to. I've been using Nixos for a while. It's fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?

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[–] philm@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lack of btrfs support was disappointing

NixOS supports Btrfs

AFAIK NixOS supports every filesystem, that other linux distros support, and often with easier/better configuration, e.g. I'm using ZFS, which seems to be easier to setup on NixOS than on most other distros.

[–] echindod@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But does it work with the installer? I couldn't get the installer to work, and saw there were other people who had problems. (thanks for the link btw. I will definitely try and give it another spin).

[–] philm@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

installer

You mean the "new" installer GUI? I never used it TBH, I always did partitioning (and everything else) via CLI, not sure about that. But NixOS (gnome version) has GParted and all other kinds of partitioning tools on board, so just partition it as you think it's best and then generate a config via nixos-generate-config as described in the manual. One tip, when going down that rabbit hole (when you're committing at least): Start with Nix flakes right away. Checkout all kinds of dotfiles in github of other users (and on github there are a lot of configurations that can be source of inspiration).