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Re:Setting up my new laptop: Nix style by anon291 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:25AM (#34124564)
Nope. I stopped using Ubuntu after realizing it offers no benefits over windows. You still have to reinstall the thing every few years when it ends up breaking, and good luck and Godspeed if you ever die in the middle of an upgrade. Oh and it just accumulates cruft and random configuration settings after a while. Thanks, but no thanks. I've had too many ubuntu systems end up in states where something doesn't work with no guide on the internet. In nix, I restart and choose an older generation and I'm left with a clean system. That's the way a computer should work. Are there problems sure? But the class of problem is wholly different.
Re:Setting up my new laptop: Nix style by hexo on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:10AM (#34137028)
Ubuntu isnt good at all, compared to windows its far better os, but still crap. Nix? Where not even regular bash script works? What a joke. One big hack. Benchmark of symlinking a dynlinker with no benefit to users, just making things mega complicated, slow, non-configurable or outright not working as (I) used to with no clear workaround.

Yea, tell that Nix is good to admins. They might appreciate. Desktop? No way. Devs? Not even remote. I'd give it 2 out of 10.