I must be honest #NixOS is slowly growing on me. But it will take me at least a year to fully grasp it n feel comfortable with it the way I do with #Arch. As a result will not be my daily until then.. #Linux#OpenSource#FOSS
@DKMellow Well yeah.. But I like to feel super comfortable with it before switching. I do not like to make something I do not grasp as a daily on my production machine !
@XeroLinux Ye I fell that, at first I started with Hyprland as DE but that was a bit too big of a change so I am sticking with KDE for now until I learn nixos better. But yeah I can understand not wanting to jump right into the unknown.
@DKMellow Exactly. I have it on my laptop and proxmox to mess with until I run on my production machine.. I need to learn more about Flakes n Home manager stuff.. Super confusing especially that am no coder.
@XeroLinux@DKMellow Worth noting that both flakes and home manager are highly optional and have a great correlation with driving people away from NixOS entirely.
@XeroLinux@DKMellow Makes a lot of sense. My impression is NixOS can take a bit longer to adjust to when you switch from a different Linux rather than a completely different stack.
@AngryAnt@XeroLinux@DKMellow I wouldn't throw home-manager and flakes in the same basket. Anyone who is currently a user of a tool like Stow will probably be interested in home-manager.
@nebucatnetzer@AngryAnt@DKMellow Was talking about users like me who never used anything but Arch or Distro they using. Those familiar with such things as stow whatever that is yeah it's only natural
@XeroLinux@nebucatnetzer@DKMellow Absolutely. The only reason I bring it up is that we have a very enthusiastic community which tends to present the two as mandatory when they're highly optional - with the obvious exception of when you're fully aware that you need the features they bring.
That is fine on its own, but becomes frustrating when you notice the correlation between that and new arrivals leaving in frustration.
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