Interesting! While I agree that it's good to focus on a limited number of features and target group profiles, what I really miss in the general perception among "Linux enthusiasts" (possible target group that would enter NixOS via distro-hopping) is the argument "config as code". Most "distro hopping influencers" and their commenters do their set-up, configuring and ricing imperatively (i.e. spend hours on repeating the same tasks for every new install), and almost no one seems to realise the huge value of the inherent boon to config management to long term efficiency, knowledge management, etc.
I think Nix only needs better organized documentation. Everything else will just fall in place because it's just so amazing. I'm only halfway into Nix, but few things were actually hard to learn, only hard to find how to do stuff. Everything is documented extremely concisely with lots of jargon and incomplete examples.
I love the hosts enthusiasm for the topics & interview!
Interesting! While I agree that it's good to focus on a limited number of features and target group profiles, what I really miss in the general perception among "Linux enthusiasts" (possible target group that would enter NixOS via distro-hopping) is the argument "config as code". Most "distro hopping influencers" and their commenters do their set-up, configuring and ricing imperatively (i.e. spend hours on repeating the same tasks for every new install), and almost no one seems to realise the huge value of the inherent boon to config management to long term efficiency, knowledge management, etc.
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I think Nix only needs better organized documentation. Everything else will just fall in place because it's just so amazing.
I'm only halfway into Nix, but few things were actually hard to learn, only hard to find how to do stuff. Everything is documented extremely concisely with lots of jargon and incomplete examples.
I'm just starting with NixOS. Where can I find that one-page intro to using flakes?
Nix language is much easier than Yaml (Ansible and similar stuff where markup turned programming language)