Well articulated reply. Thank you!

Oh lol 😜 😂. Regardless, your input has been much appreciated! Thank you 😊!

Couldn't agree more.

Btw, I would like to take this chance to thank you and @winety@lemmy.zip for the civil, respectful, engaging and informative conversation you were having elsewhere!

Thanks a lot for putting in the work! Uhmm..., how has testing been? Were you able to pull this off with Markdown?

I've also heard great things about it. Thanks for your endorsement! Unfortunately, correctly installing Zed on my distro might be more trouble than worth it at the moment. Hopefully the issue(s) will be resolved (very) soon. I would love to test it out and see it for myself.

Thank you so much! The instructions will be very helpful whenever I test out Zed later today or early tomorrow.

Fam, I believe your post is all over the place. Please consider to clarify the following:

• What is it that you actually desire?
  • Easy installation through a script? Or perhaps through a Kickstart file? Or any of the dozens of other tools used to deploy a fleet of systems?
  • Declarative system management? While perhaps not as powerful as NixOS, the industry has been working with tools like Ansible for over a decade.

Basically it feels insane that it's the way most linux users and servers in the world operate.

Frankly, I somewhat agree. But I believe most people operate within paradigms like "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." and/or "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.". Isn't "the path of least resistance" what we default to anyways? And if we additionally weigh in sunk cost fallacy, it is no surprise that people are more often than not wed to their ways... Or, at least act upon it.

If I, a humble computer hobbyist can figure out Nix, why don't more users do so, and why is Nix so niche?

I believe NixOS suffers from the following:

• For the longest time, it really was just niche. Like, NixOS has only fairly recently started to garner a decent audience. Boiling Steam's chart, while it shouldn't be used to gauge the user base of each distro, it does help us in finding trendings within a distro. And for NixOS, it clearly shows how it has slowly but surely grown a significant presence from 2020 onwards. Contrast that to Debian or Fedora that have always had a significant presence (or, at least for over a decade).
• The onboarding experience is absolute horrid. To flake or not? To lix or nixcpp? And I haven't even mentioned how its documentation is just dog water. Or how over the last year its organization has shown clear growing pains.

Anyhow, I'm glad to hear you jumped ship to NixOS! Wish me luck when I enter its hostile waters (with the intent to conquer it) this summer 😉!

It has been my pleasure! Hope it'll work out for ya!

thanks, that’s comprehensive

Thanks fam for the appreciation!

I recommend it at least :-)

I totally get it and I actually appreciate your efforts. Which shouldn't be surprising as I favor anything 'atomic' over the traditional model. Heck, were it not for Fedora Atomic, I would probably have daily-driven openSUSE Aeon instead.

Uhmm..., my apologies for sidestepping to a topic I would rather not... But here goes nothing...

Perhaps you might have noticed the discussion that has been going on elsewhere in this thread😅. And thus..., you might have become aware that an LLM was used (by me) for wording/phrasing/punctuation the earlier 'info-dump'. Note that the content is still mine. I just wasn't able to commit to put out a decent writing myself. Instead, I speech-to-texted my input. Asked the LLM to make it legible. After which we had a bit of back-and-forth until we arrived at the final result.

Anyhow, now that you're aware of the context, I would like to ask you the following: What would you have preferred?

• (Either) That I didn't do any of that and thus not comment at all.
• (Or, rather) Our current situation in which I did whatever I did.

Strictly speaking, for my posts^[Which there are only three of at the time of writing.] (i.e. my comments aren't included into the conversation yet), I do heavily employ an LLM as a writing assistant. But the process those undergo is very different from the comment you see above; it takes a lot of time, effort and many revisions until I land on something I like.

As for my comments, it depends: if it's longer, I employ it to help with shortening while retaining the content I meant to convey. Or, to help with wording/phrasing specific troublesome passages that either don't flow well or if I'm unsure if idioms (and whatnot) have been used correctly.

While I don't like to bring it up, some people -naturally- have the tendency to write up texts that are (somehow) reminiscent to what we'd expect from an AI. FWIW, I have many times been accused of this while the text was all just me...

Finally, to directly address the comment found above: No; I don't think I can recall any other comment that was as carelessly composed as that one. And to directly answer your following question:

Do you always have ideas in the middle of the night and want to post them only to have an RSI flare up and no laptop nearby and decide to use ChatGPT to write your posts?

Nope. I can't recall the last time -prior to the one above- in which I did something similar. And, again, content-wise, it is me. The LLM mostly just made it legible.

Perhaps it was just placebo, but my system always felt snappier (even if momentarily) right after a reset. As such, it would slowly but surely reach a proverbial boiling point where starting fresh was the only thing that truly salvaged it for me. So yeah, while not exactly easy, it felt so gratifying that I couldn't do anything but.

I had never heard of the impermanence module, that seems really cool !

It's pretty great, isn't it? And honestly, hearing folks get excited about it definitely nudges me closer to finally diving in this summer. Wish me luck!

To clarify, this is just my list that I shared in the hope that others would follow suit 😅. (Which hasn't been successful so far...) Consider posting yours 😉!