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7ai

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  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • That's right. I just rely on intuition to create a snapshot just before I think some operation will potentially break the system. (Along with daily snapshots)

    It's definitely not as bulletproof and transparent as Nixos. You can see what has changed by doing a diff :)

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • I definitely want to try out gentoo sometime. My system is not very powerful. I'm afraid it'll compile for many days 😅

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • I was just going off based on its history. It began based on gentoo. (Wikipedia) but yea it is independent now.

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • Yeah. Most small changes will not rebuild everything. It's just the core dependency updates that are most expensive. Like say openssl got a minor update. Now every package that depends on it needs to be rebuilt and rehashed because of the way nix store works.

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • Other than the obvious things like arch having better docs and lots of packages, void reminds me of arch before systemd. Especially editing rc.conf etc.

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • Was it recent? I remember doing the same some years ago 😆

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • I just wanted something lightweight and fast. It was between alpine (gentoo based), void and artix (arch based). I decided to go for void because it's new and an independent distro. I'll try the other two some day.

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  • Thank you!

  • I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

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  • You can achieve similar results with ansible. But I like nix better. It is reproducible. You can think of it like docker.

    Nix is also declarative and has rollback. Also, nixos-rebuild is idempotent.

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  • Yeah. For reproducibility I still use nix. Especially when I have to share my dev environment with a team or to spin up identical servers.

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  • Yeah there's a lot of state accumulation especially in home folder which I clear manually from time to time.

    In Nixos you can configure the impermanence module to clear unwanted state on your system and make it a "fresh install" on every reboot.

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  • 🎉 Same! I've been looking at Ashos (meta distribution) or just using btrfs snapshots to rollback when I break something.

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  • You mean in terms of how fast it feels? I have never heard anyone saying this before. Can you share some details and perhaps some tips to improve performance on Nixos?

    What hardware do you run Nixos on and do you modify and rebuild a lot of packages on nixpkgs?

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  • Arch and void are very similar except void has a smaller community and much smaller set of packages to install. Arch also has better documentation.

    Void is considered more lightweight because it uses runit instead of systemd and a choice to use musl instead of glibc.

    I feel for most, arch is a better choice of the three.

  • What distro(s) do you use?

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  • Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.