Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mobergmann@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can also use container within NixOS and AFAICT even declare the containers which should be running. Also NixOS is sad to be stable, or am I missing something?

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just that compiling packages on a server is not ideal.

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    • corgi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nixos will use/download cached binaries that are available in its repo. It has one of the biggest repositories of any Linux distro. It’s on par with Arch with around 90 thousand packages.

      Unless you are doing something custom or niche, your nixos won’t have to compile anything.

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      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are all those packages available in binary format? Not familiar with Nix but that’s certainly not the case for Arch. Arch has 85k packages in the AUR as source recipes but not as binaries.

        I still think Debian makes a better use case for a server since it provides everything as binaries.

        If you’re going to use binaries what’s the point of using Nix anyway? The declarative aspect is nice in an abstract sort of way but you can achieve a system deploy or restore just as fast by installing a vanilla system and a few config files.

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeh, but I already have compose files and ansible things to set up a server.
    And I’d have to figure out how health checks and depends-on works for that.

    I’m sure it would give me an amazing experience, but I have all the tools and I can run them in isolation (ie I can install docker on any os I can SSH into)

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