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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
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I also think- how often am I borking or reinstalling my desktop?
It's a good idea but I've been running the same system for years and years. All that effort goes kind of unused. I replicated most of what I'd need in a single ansible playbook over the years that didn't take long. In the rare event I need to reinstall at all.
I've made it so my home directory and root are two different partitions so whenever I need to reinstall I still have my customization data around
Same. If I ever had to reinstall that makes it even easier anyhow.