Nix is my daily driver OS and the most stable experience I've ever had with any distro. But God do I fucking hate using Nix. Such a horribly documented experience for something so config heavy. Wtf were they thinking.
After implementing Brainfuck and Sudoku in Nix, I was thinking of implementing a backend framework. However, I decided that I am not insane enough for that.
Sounds pretty great to me honestly... Might spin up vm this weekend and give it a shot!
Thought let's be honest, I've grown kinda lazy in my old age and compiling kernels is kinda a pain if you don't need to so I dont know if I'll actually use it for anything
I wanted to play around with a project that uses Nix... it seemed really cool but I couldn't get it working, I guess I was throwing myself in at the deep end with it
It looks like a fantastic way of sharing a dev environment across a team
It is a fantastic way to make sure things work across a team. We use Linux (bunch of different distro) and macOS at my company and once I started packaging things with nix environment related issues mostly went away. It's not perfect and it's not necessarily easy to learn nix, but I prefer it to sharing docker containers or other alternatives.
Well state includes (for most configs I've seen) the persistence of user paswords, known_hosts, wifi auth, /home, /var, nix-channels, nixos-generations, disk encryption passwords, secrets in general, docker/podman, VMs, ...
Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)
The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module
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Burghler@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y
Nix is my daily driver OS and the most stable experience I've ever had with any distro. But God do I fucking hate using Nix. Such a horribly documented experience for something so config heavy. Wtf were they thinking.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y
Not just that, Nix as a language has an insane syntax. Who the hell dreamed function declaration like that
TheFadingOne@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1y
I mean the function syntax is pretty much just taken from Lambda Calculus.
jim3692@discuss.online · 11 pts · 1y
After implementing Brainfuck and Sudoku in Nix, I was thinking of implementing a backend framework. However, I decided that I am not insane enough for that.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
mathematicians.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
To quote just about everyone regarding sometning at some point in their lives: “ew”
Burghler@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
And good luck deciphering wtf the exception log is trying to say.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
They were thinking mgmtconfig.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
Excuse me...
neclimdul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Sounds pretty great to me honestly... Might spin up vm this weekend and give it a shot!
Thought let's be honest, I've grown kinda lazy in my old age and compiling kernels is kinda a pain if you don't need to so I dont know if I'll actually use it for anything
2910000@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I wanted to play around with a project that uses Nix... it seemed really cool but I couldn't get it working, I guess I was throwing myself in at the deep end with it
It looks like a fantastic way of sharing a dev environment across a team
qqq@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
It is a fantastic way to make sure things work across a team. We use Linux (bunch of different distro) and macOS at my company and once I started packaging things with nix environment related issues mostly went away. It's not perfect and it's not necessarily easy to learn nix, but I prefer it to sharing docker containers or other alternatives.
termaxima@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 1y
sntx@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Well state includes (for most configs I've seen) the persistence of user paswords, known_hosts, wifi auth, /home, /var, nix-channels, nixos-generations, disk encryption passwords, secrets in general, docker/podman, VMs, ...
ziggurat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)
The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module