Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not
Story of my life after 20 years on Linux. Maybe we could call it “modification anxiety”.
I believe this is the case for an immutable OS.
Nice to know I am not alone! And I only recently started with linux, so I guess it’s not really something that goes away with time 😂
I need to take a look at an immutable OS sooner or later, although I feel I would be annoyed for not being able to modify stuff for my liking (probably I will never be satisfied in any case)
Immutable distros like NixOS don’t stop you from tweaking stuff, they just record every tweak centrally, so that you can undo them and do rollbacks.
Others can confirm that I’ve got that right. Haven’t tried it but the idea sounds great.
I’ve used NixOS on my laptop as a learning experience for the past year and find your summary solid. Rollbacks = 🍰. The bug bear for me has been the Nix language itself. It’s functional, (a first for me,) and with the documentation lacking, I’ve been thrown for more than a few loops. That said, i have indeed learned quite a bit as a result. Still a ways to go but here’s to the journey!
voklen@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
100%. This is exactly why I switched my home server over to NixOS and would struggle to go back. I used to reinstall all the time but now there really isn’t any need to, since I can just look at my configuration.nix file and know everything that’s installed, running and configured on my system. Whereas using any other distro I’m like WHAT ON EARTH IS RUNNING ON HERE?