Hi everyone, someone can explain, in simple words, why considering to switch on NixOs over other distro? And the use case? I think would help a lot of people (including me) to understand it better :D
Hi everyone, someone can explain, in simple words, why considering to switch on NixOs over other distro? And the use case? I think would help a lot of people (including me) to understand it better :D
I wonder in practice how easy it is to copy your nix config to another machine. Sounds amazing but aren’t the configurations very hardware dependent?
Having tried it on multiple different it’s not seamless but it’s a damn sight better than setting up many machines manually
The configurations are not particularly hardware dependant as for the most part NixOS handles drivers and such transparently and just gets whatever it decides is best for your hardware (unless you override it)
The main hardware specific config I have is to use Nvidia proprietary drivers, as it defaults to nouvea
Tl:Dr 90% of your config will transfer and you have to do a little fiddling to get it all up and running but it’s all way easier than building from scratch
This is very true. However, most of the time you’ll regenerate the hardware configuration using one command and use that instead.
Nice! If I ever have the time, I will try it out! I have been running arch with the lts kernel for a few years now but NixOs does seem very cool