Nix and NixOS users and experts: can you please explain to me why this 20+ year old technology has become the new hot thing in the last few years? I understand that we're dealing with interesting tech here, but I'd like to hear what's different now/recently.
@JoeRess I found it because I had new hardware and needed bleeding edge kernels. I've always been a Fedora and Ubuntu guy, I like stability and didn't want to learn Arch. In NixOS using the latest upstream kernel is a single line in the config, and it's never broken.
I’ve officially got itchy feet. I really want to jump to Nix in as many places as I can.
I’m contemplating spending some of my long weekend replacing my existing extremely mature and well tested infra repo with #nixos in as many places as possible.
Core hypervisor host will likely still be #proxmox though.
@ironicbadger I'm actually working on a slightly scaled out KVM setup on NixOS! It's gluster, libvirt, and pacemaker / corosync. Most of my infra is in Incus (no HA), but I want HA for critical VMs like the router & Home Assistant.
