The feeling of "conflating reality and whatever computer topic you're currently engrossed in" is too real.
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I showed this meme to my husband (who uses Arch, btw). He didn't know what NixOS was and is now curious. What have I done?
The adult version of the old xkcd
Linux now has many mature distros that just work and don't require much configuration if any - which is the motivation for Nixos, probably
You set a timer on your marriage, I'm sorry for you.
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she/her
me, a broken man
Some mixed signals here... she should double-check gender.nix
It is a copy of the Reddit post, I doubt these two accounts are the same https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/s/7zuK1ifOOo
Either way it's just a funny post, nobody would actually go through such a hyper focus leaving their wife behind....
... right?
Christ, I knocked over my home theater system when I tried to transition to Mint and absolutely did spend a night sleeping on the couch over it.
She was cis until she started using Nix.
You can just recompile your gender. There's nobody who can stop you.
Most trans people would say they were never cis. But if she's the exception, the breakup could be explained as a result of the transition if the wife is straight.
Most trans people would say they were never cis.
Bad terminology on my part, I wasn't sure how else to phrase it!
I mean, if you were intending it as a joke your phrasing works just as well.
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I guess that's why the man is broken
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Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 moths non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.
Debian developer/user here. My marriage just works.
To be fair, your SO is so old they don't know what a meme is. Maybe in a few more years they will catch up to the rest of us
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So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...
It is amazing, the power of a mature immutable OS, is amazing. Frankly though Ive found the reality of nix the exact opposite: because everything is configured in the one place, updates, and changes in general are so easy and risk free (rollbacks a breeeeze). So i save more time than lose tbh.
Modules and flakes are next level.
Configure ALL THE THINGS!
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What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
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I maintain the opinion that NixOS exists solely to make us Arch users (btw) look not as bad in comparison.
my wife has endured so much waffle about how great nixos is
i feel bad for her
At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
Ok color me intrigued, what is evt? I googled a bit and didn't find anything
Everything
But yeah, being super personalised is the joke. I don't see many NixOS users typing out nixos-rebuild outside of making tutorials.
Arch User here btw.... she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User.... Damn stable systems!
Debian here, it's true, I have both their wives
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"They may be unstable but at least they notice when I'm in the room" -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones
I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don't have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.
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