Opinions on linux? I wanna hear yalls opinion on it, because you can do some cool shit with it, heres my own rice for a basic idea of what random shit you can do w/ it

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NixOS

Nixos as my base system. Nixos offers a new paradigm of system management that makes it hard for me to go back to any other distro, despite the new problems Nixos introduces. The game-changer is that Nix build system offers reproducibility guarantees, an escape from dependency-hell, rollbacks, and a declarative system configuration. This all lets me define a system, track it in git, copy the configuration to any other PC and instantly get the exact same setup, and never have to worry about screwing something up when I mess around with guts of my OS -- if something doesn't work right, I can just select a different system version from the boot menu. Nixos has a steep learning curve; not for the faint of heart. Getting started is easy (you can just copy someone's config, and with minor changes it will work). Getting proficient is hard.

#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions

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LXC

LXD is a manager for Linux Containers (LXC), which lets me spin up a kind-of lightweight VM for any distro, instantly. I use it to run proprietary software isolated from the rest of my system (such as Steam); disposable environments for trying stuff out, and running software that doesn't jive well with Nixos.

#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 33 social mentions