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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by vineethkm on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:57PM (#36252541)
I have heard good things about NixOS but I am also told its not a normie daily driver.
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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by anotherhue on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:37AM (#36253218)
You better love Unix to run NixOS. I do love Unix, I was a FreeBSD fellow, but Nix is so incredible that everything else feels like poking at your hard drive with a stick.

Editing a file in /etc/ feels like PEEK/POKEing to memory now. Barbaric.

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