It’s there to solve your “This is boring” issue without having to do all of the system configuration stuff manually*.

I was able to package a nightly AppImage as if it were installed normally like an app, and I could reinstall the system if I wanted to, and it’d still be there. NixOS is the opposite of manual dependency resolution, it’s dependency heaven. You can have unstable and stable repositories side-by-side, living in a utopic egalitarian society. You can write a configuration file that does everything. You can do anything with NixOS. NixOS is the one true god, all hail NixOS—

Ah, I see why you may not want to use it. Consider it though, it’s genuinely good and trying doesn’t hurt.

I haven’t even told you about nix-comma or nix helper (nh) yet. May the, uh, flake be with you.

*You do have to write the config files, though you can just adapt someone else’s configuration.

Purple like Debian?

i use foot terminal btw

You can subscribe to the GitHub discussion, it looks like there are some prototypes but not a definitive GUI: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/11783

I use Helix btw

lol, limão even

I just have Niri with Waybar and a consistent color scheme

Ah, this is why I set up snapper on my btrfs system

i use mpv btw

i run sudo xbps-install -Su whenever i remember to, and flatpak update whenever there’s a new Krita version

Honestly I didn’t use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn’t like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint’s apps.

I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss

NixOS also doesn’t show what packages were updated after an update, and doesn’t show which version they changed to, which is slightly annoying.

To be cringe is to be free

The answer is simple: when I used Debian, I was just starting out with Linux and didn’t mess with systemctl at all. It was an ok beginner experience (I’d already used Mint before trying Debian, so I was at more of an intermediate level) but I probably wouldn’t like it as much nowadays.

I like the idea of using different software for different things, why do systemd timers exist when there’s already crontab, for example?

Meanwhile, I mostly used Arch on my server where I had to deal with all the systemd stuff, which was rarely useful for my purposes.

I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

I “tried” installing gentoo once but i didn’t know what a tarball was at the time so i can’t really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.

i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i’m not sure on the details.

I was curious

perhaps i too will post code on the internet

here is a shell script i wrote for automating filenames for markdown files (blog posts):

#!/bin/sh
set -e

datecmd="date +%Y-%m-%d"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  printf "Post title: " >&2
  read -r title
else
  title="$1"
fi

file="$($datecmd)_$title.md"

if [ -f "$file" ]; then
  printf "Error: post '$file' already exists.\n" >&2
  exit 1
fi

${EDITOR:-nano} "$file"

Yes, I replicated some features of fish in zsh because I liked some parts of fish but I didn’t like the different syntax (not that I’m too familiar with the shell, just familiar enough to get annoyed sometimes when using fish).