Time consuming at first, but reinstalling a system is a breeze after that. I reckon nixOS has saved me so much more time than all the config tweaks put together.
do you reinstall your system often? i installed my system in 2022 right after slackware 15.0 released, never reinstalled since. even when switching hardware i just have to update/modify the kernel, nothing else.
I only had to reinstall my desktop once due to hard drive failure. My laptop’s main use is testing out other distros, so I frequently put nixOS back on there when I need the laptop for a weekend away.
I’d imagine it also being great for servers, but due to proxmox templates and snapshots, I’ve never needed to reinstall there.
This. I don’t see where the benefit of NixOS even is.
Everything in Linux is a file. You can literally just copy your system to a new drive, rebuild initramfs and fstab, and boot it.
Time consuming at first, but reinstalling a system is a breeze after that. I reckon nixOS has saved me so much more time than all the config tweaks put together.
do you reinstall your system often? i installed my system in 2022 right after slackware 15.0 released, never reinstalled since. even when switching hardware i just have to update/modify the kernel, nothing else.
I only had to reinstall my desktop once due to hard drive failure. My laptop’s main use is testing out other distros, so I frequently put nixOS back on there when I need the laptop for a weekend away.
I’d imagine it also being great for servers, but due to proxmox templates and snapshots, I’ve never needed to reinstall there.
This. I don’t see where the benefit of NixOS even is.
Everything in Linux is a file. You can literally just copy your system to a new drive, rebuild initramfs and fstab, and boot it.