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I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn’t know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
You set a timer on your marriage, I’m sorry for you.
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don’t require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
Quick, be fast and setup a binary cache so that he can substitute nixos.org with you.
Trust me, it’s the only way.
she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here… she should double-check gender.nix
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There’s nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she’s the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
“Gender assigned at birth” would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it’s just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind…
… right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
I believe it’s because they’re not using flakes properly. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.
I guess that’s why the man is broken
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don’t know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
We will be hiking together until then.
Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!
Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.
Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only
minormajor version conflicts
Debian here, it’s true, I have both their wives
I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke
Overdone stuff for a joke in a community called linuxmemes? Unpossible!
whispering into the void
That’s it, that’s the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife’s trust, then it was over.
You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
Ok color me intrigued, what is
evt? I googled a bit and didn’t find anythingEverything
But yeah, being super personalised is the joke. I don’t see many NixOS users typing out
nixos-rebuildoutside of making tutorials.I didn’t get the joke until I read your explanation, but now I do get it, I think that it’s a very funny joke.
Ohh I see. Yeah that’s fair. I have a lot of aliases on my machines as well, not even being a Nix user (though I have long term plans to … lol)
Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I’m intrigued.
You can
nixos-rebuildher, you have the technology.I use debian btw (why do arch users get all the fun)
Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it’s mostly like Arch right?
I’ve noticed that more and more, interesting new projects have nix, appimg, pkg, and docker releases. So on Debian, I need to rely on non-native packages or compiling more frequently than before. Not a big issue, but it’s a new awkwardness I wasn’t used to.
no, texting is packages that are chosen to make it the next version of debian stable, the version your thinking of is debian unstable/sid, which is not a standalone os but a repo that you can change to after you install either testing or stable (unstable does not refer to the stability of your system but to the stability of package compatibility as it turns debian into a rolling release system like arch) Note: you can use Bookworm (stable) and trixie (testing) repos along with sid repos but it’s not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)
Because you are too reliable ;(
“They may be unstable but at least they notice when I’m in the room” -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones
I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don’t have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.
How much more complicated is NixOS compared to a neovim setup? On paper I love the idea.
Much more I think. The initial setup is the hard part, and I would recommend keeping a second computer on the side so you can keep trouble shooting when your display driver shits the bed or your wifi module decides it would like to take a nap.
I installed NixOS a couple months ago, and it’s been my smoothest Linux experience to date. Everything just worked, except I had to figure out how to open the firewall for my network drive on my home server to be discoverable and usable. But that was fairly expected. I game, so I stress test the graphics routinely. No WiFi, though, so I guess that could maybe be flaky.
Wouldn’t you be able to just rollback to a working generation?
Usually, breaks happen when you’re trying to change something - if you aren’t trying to install something or change some configuration everything that works will keeps working.
