Re:E-ink is so Retropunk
by pmarreck on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:53PM
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> I've fucked with Gentoo and Arch for so long that sometimes I just want a break from it all. No dependency hell, no bugs, esoteric stack traces, nor popups, advertisements, notifications, nor distractions.
I have all that on NixOS. Things install and run reliably and configurations stick reliably, all declaratively.
1) Getting back to known-good from any fucking-with that breaks something is 1 rollback away.
2) It's still Nix wizardry to do something as relatively simple as set up a systemd background process that gongs on the hour (I actually made this work, but it broke recently and I don't know why yet because 2-year-old-son). This actually discourages "distracted hacking" while making you work for the changes you definitely want, which ends up being a nice compromise.
FWIW, I've been the most productive on this Linux distro of all the ones I've tried (Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, Pop_OS, Manjaro, Arch).
I have all that on NixOS. Things install and run reliably and configurations stick reliably, all declaratively.
1) Getting back to known-good from any fucking-with that breaks something is 1 rollback away.
2) It's still Nix wizardry to do something as relatively simple as set up a systemd background process that gongs on the hour (I actually made this work, but it broke recently and I don't know why yet because 2-year-old-son). This actually discourages "distracted hacking" while making you work for the changes you definitely want, which ends up being a nice compromise.
FWIW, I've been the most productive on this Linux distro of all the ones I've tried (Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, Pop_OS, Manjaro, Arch).