Hi everyone,

I’ve been a happy user of Fedora Workstation since Fedora 36 on my Surface Go 1.

I really enjoy Gnome and everything is set up the way I want to.

Since I was really happy with my setup I just wanted to be able to replicate it easily through Clonezilla so that I could port it on any future computer I’d get.

Sadly, even with the help of really helpful and knowledgeable users on Lemmy, it hasn’t worked (https://sh.itjust.works/post/25963065).

So now I’m left wondering if there could be a distribution that I’d enjoy and which would be easy to deploy on another computer as I’d hate to have to configure everything on every computer I’d get.

I love Gnome but I wouldn’t be against trying something else if necessary.

What distribution could meet my needs?

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 hours ago

    (nixos more or less requires you understand programming syntax for writing your system config)

    It’s technically not a real programming language but an expression language. The difference is that the former is a series of commands to execute in the specified order to produce arbitrary effects while the latter is a declaration of a set of data. You can think of it like writing a config file i.e. in JSON format.

    The syntax isn’t really the hard part here. You can learn the basics that comprise 99% of Nix code in a few minutes.
    The actually hard part is first figuring out what you even want to do and then second how the NixOS-specific interface for that thing is intended to be used. The former requires general Linux experience and the latter research and problem solving skills.

    • flashgnash
      2·
      10 hours ago

      It’s hard to say whether it’s difficult or not coming into it already knowing how to program

      More people than not struggle to come to terms with what a variable is let alone all the stuff you can do in nix

      There are definitely other hard parts, but I didn’t want to write a wall of text lol