0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoArch and Gentoo users reading about NixOSsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up112arrow-down1imageArch and Gentoo users reading about NixOSsh.itjust.works0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months ago…to get a working config, you need to learn a whole new programming language and figure out the tweaks for each package you want to install, so I’d argue the journey is just as long
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThat’s why you go for GNU Guix instead, since it’s the same kind of concept but configured using the Guile Scheme you already know. (You do already know Scheme, right?)
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThat’s not true. You have to get PhD in functional programming first.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months agoWait, are you saying my degree has real world use?
minus-squaremojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoNixOS sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agothat’s why I only use my computer with raw system calls, shell is bloat
minus-squarestoicmaverick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoYou guys use an OS? I just push the electrons around my motherboard manually with a little magnet on a toothpick.
minus-squarearf@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoSystemd sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
…to get a working config, you need to learn a whole new programming language and figure out the tweaks for each package you want to install, so I’d argue the journey is just as long
That’s why you go for GNU Guix instead, since it’s the same kind of concept but configured using the Guile Scheme you already know.
(You do already know Scheme, right?)
That’s not true.
You have to get PhD in functional programming first.
Wait, are you saying my degree has real world use?
NixOS sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.
that’s why I only use my computer with raw system calls, shell is bloat
You guys use an OS? I just push the electrons around my motherboard manually with a little magnet on a toothpick.
Systemd sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.