Godspeed

It’s gonna be a huge success with Lemmy users

For me, the factors were:

• the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
• easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
• the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
• as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
• the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows

And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.

Well, that isn’t the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.

Also Mozilla uses it as far as I know

Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.

one twig at a time

First off, I fully agree with you. But how people are lured in is that there is no interest if you pay on time, so it’s advertised as interest-free. But obviously the business model is built upon people not paying on time, and as such one should calculate that cost into it…

Do programmers actually like bash?

I’m not a programmer and I really don’t like bash. Not because I don’t like shell. In fact I do like fish as a shell. But bash always feels super weird. Unfortunately that’s kind of the compatibility baseline on Linux (I don’t think any relevant system needs strict sh compatibility). But better bash’s weird arrays than none at all, plus process substitution is handy.

I never got the sentiment either. in fact I always found it to be among the best outlets. I’m a subscriber and I don’t even live in an English speaking country, and this is my only news subscription - didn’t find one that’s better overall yet.

Most bash scripts are nasty, except for the most simple ones.

In its defense, it’s not a programming language.

Where

A single domain helps so much, regardless of what you have planned. I basically use mine just as bookmarks. There’s a dedicated subdomain for dynamic DNS. I make use of SRV records. Costs me like 6 bucks a year. You don’t need huge ambitions or dreams for a domain name to make sense.

Yes, :q! in normal mode to exit without saving changes.

Mephisto is the least scary part of the dungeon, it’s the dolls that can really fuck you up, and blinking into an unlucky stunlock

What about tortoisegit

That’s more hours per week than I have to work.

But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.

Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That’s over the game’s full lifespan though.

This is what happens when you don’t use crypto as god intended: purchasing medication from India and subscriptions to indexers.

I’m not saying this is what I bought Monero for.

But this is what I bought Monero for.

careful there buddy