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Immutable distros recommindation? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I'm choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Don't use NixOS.

Source:

I love NixOS
I use it as my daily driver on multiple machines.
I've contributed both to NixOS and surrounding ecosystem.

Evidence:

Learning cliff rather than curve because:
The state of the documentation should have been unacceptable a decade ago. Very unacceptable now.
The tooling is also over a decade behind.
Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

These things are getting better but not fast enough that I'd recommend it.

If you really want to look into nix, use it on another distro and see if you're still interested after getting a flake-based devshell together. (impossible challenge: do it for a python project that relies on complex dependencies like transformers)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

Genuine question from somebody who's out of the loop and doesn't use NixOS: How does this affect your day to day using the distro?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Don’t use NixOS.

I don't like NixOS very much. This whole governance scandal has turned me away from it even more, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I've just switched my secondary machine to Nix, and was in the process of switching my main too, so it really is quite a shame. I'm really enjoying the distribution, but if the organization continues to have colossal government issues, and repelling active packagers, that's really not a good sign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Guix? I'm ignorant of both but very nix curious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now that I'm deep in it with flakes + home manager + impermanence + disko/nixos-anywhere, it's fantastic having this much control and stability on all my systems, and I'm excited to start switching as much of my homelab as I can over to NixOS like my workstations.

But I totally agree, I would not recommend this to anyone who is not super interested in it.