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The feeling of "conflating reality and whatever computer topic you're currently engrossed in" is too real.
Nailing this regex will save me hours.
Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago...I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.
(I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).
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?
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I believe it's because they're not using flakes properly. One of them is relying on an outdated channel, and ends up using outdated pronouns.
I guess that's why the man is broken
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So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I'm still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste...
Rip
They'll find her years later, twitching and mumbling, buried under a printout of https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
Ummm...
I use Arch btw π
Take care of that dude's wife.
What a noob, with just roll back to an earlier build of your relationship, duh!
How? Please share dot file
Dont need to with Nix lol.
When it launches it has your previous configs locked and loaded (provided you dont nuke them)
I'm a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I've attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.
I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. "Ok, honey, I'll be in the living room watching my shows."
This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.
When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I'd come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She'd call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.
She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.
Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you're doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don't know or understand her struggle.
Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux
Soon you should convince her to marry you (if that's your thing)
True love.
Running truenas and Plex is an lol
Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I'm not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn't where it is now, but also because again, I'm not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.
Just surprised after you wrote all that for running various difficult methods of Linux to then say you run TrueNas and Plex. I think Jellyfin on a Linux server is a better and easier option and would be familiar to you.
Ah yeah, the family. Thatβs the biggest reason for Plex I guess
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whispering into the void
That's it, that's the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife's trust, then it was over.
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 girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.
Tch... Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only ~~minor~~ ~major~ version conflicts
Debian here, it's true, I have both their wives
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Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I'll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.
Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.
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I've used various flavors of Arch for years. I tried Nix and spent several hours failing to do anything - like table-stakes shit like installing packages.
I went back to Arch.
The way out is through
Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.
I clicked on the first link to the options appendix and noped right the fuck out.
That's a level of involvement I reserve for activities where I either get paid 100β¬+/h, or otherwise support my family.
And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Which I don't do more than once every couple of years.
And then I click "next" a bunch of times on Debian, and copy /home over from my backup.
And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.
Well, that isn't the first thing I'd mention, but whatever. Use whatever you're comfortable with.
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The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That's just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.
Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn't that hard to learn, But having to learn just one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application's config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.
Now if you're not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.
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At some point talking to a NixOS user becomes impsb bc they have evt as alias n they spk in it
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Meme OSes are a cult of personality for nerds. I'll try it when it's been more battleworn and maybe gets some large org usage
I mean... nix has been around for like 20 years at this point lol
Also Mozilla uses it as far as I know
Like juipeltje said, NixOS is older than Ubuntu, and I think about a month younger than Arch Linux
It ain't bad. The only thing I wasn't able to get working so far was trying to build an react native expo app locally.
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I feel this, but my other love is gentoo...if only I could get portage to just stop finding more package masks or multiple instances of the same package slot..it's always something that makes me do another upgrade in an attempt to troubleshoot and it's usually because I get so caught up in just fixing silly mistakes that I forget to actually get to the eselect news that would have avoided the last stack of 6 compounding issues in the first place.
But I love how fun it is and I'm never leaving no matter what other nix-like cults pop up
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