"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
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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.
You can nixos-rebuild her, you have the technology.
You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !
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?
Iβve 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 itβs a new awkwardness I wasnβt 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 itβs not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)
Because you are too reliable ;(
I spent almost 20 years as that wife.
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I'm intrigued.
The feeling of "conflating reality and whatever computer topic you're currently engrossed in" is too real.
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.
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 ~~minor~~ ~major~ version conflicts
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So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...
Rip
They'll find her years later, twitching and mumbling, buried under a printout of https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
Ummm...
I use Arch btw π
Take care of that dude's wife.
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.
I'm a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I've attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.
I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. "Ok, honey, I'll be in the living room watching my shows."
This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.
When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I'd come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She'd call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.
She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.
Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you're doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don't know or understand her struggle.
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What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
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At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
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