System administration remains a deeply difficult problem. Unglamorous, sure, but there’s plenty of room to make a huge, even commercial, contribution.

nix solves this

@fiore nix has snowflake icon, very cute and wintertime ❄️🏂 this is why nix is the best

@dispencer no im sorry spencie thats a bad take :/

@fiore if only nix wasn’t garbage

@sela imean . i see the vision ngl . its just .. idont wanna lock myself into it , with no way out lol . nix invented a system so complex they basically ported vendor lock-in to linux distributions

@fiore whatever.,. sips my peppermint mocha. stares at u from my cozy sweater and blankie. u just don’t get it
(i have never used nix)

@dispencer pours you some hot tea

@fiore ty beautiful fiore

@nuukaset guix seems cool , if only it wasnt gnuware

@fiore i tried it for multiple years. it was hellish to learn and maintain, documentation is extremely sparse, mainly through random blog posts (which are also usually out of date). everything constantly broke, packaging was just pain…

@sela yea ive heard many wildly different takes on it . mine is : i use it as a user-local package manager if i really need it . thats it

@fiore auxolotl might solve this, <small>eventually</small>

@oli whats taht

@fiore https://git.auxolotl.org/auxolotl/

@rose thats kind of a pain ngl . the Good Way is : use a apk based distro !!!!!!! total /etc/apk/world win

@rose and if u dont , mantain a similar thing for your system . append package names to a file every time u install a new package

@sela i havent had a nix installation on a real system in at least one year tho , so . yea

@fiore as cool as the idea is… it really does not live up to any of the hype when you actually work on it practically… it just feels like you’re adding layers of hacks on layers of hacks to manage everything…

dumbest example i can think of is that to reconfigure my desktop config (by adding a wifi network to it), i needed to have an internet connection…

@sela id say nix shines most for server clusters and for ultra thin clients . definitely not the best option for a Normal Computer User

@fiore @sela nix doesn’t shine at all

@mia @sela fair :P