• Merulox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I switch distro once I start feeling that my current installation is too bloated and requires a heavy cleaning

    Which is why I switched to nixos, so that I can’t bloat my system up with packages I eventually forget about

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      1 year ago

      NixOS is so incredibly stable it’s crazy. Even if my entire computer implodes I can just download my couple config files off github and get exactly the same system on a different computer.

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        1 year ago

        I’m going to try Nix as my desktop OS. The only thing stopping me up until now is I like running the same OS that I run on servers (Debian). Do you think there’s a good use case for Nix on servers?

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          Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you’re able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config.

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            That’s very interesting. I use ansible to maintain configuring on my Debian services. I guess there’d be no need when running Nix