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6 Reasons Why You Should Consider Using NixOS Linux
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this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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I find it hard to rate it positively, I see additional work and problems to solve things that have never been a problem for me. The last points are especially worthless with distrobox.
I'm the same.. I setup a VM but it was so much work just to setup a basic machine with ssh I gave up on it.. I'm also no sure moving all the config out of /etc into a script is scaleable at all. I get that by copying the script from one machine to another you can duplicate configs.. but we already have ansible for that.
Indeed -- why switching to a distro that tries to "reinvent the wheel"? Or even less so, one that makes (basic) things worse for the sake of "pros only"?